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  title info:
    title: Plato's pragmatism
    sub title: rethinking the relationship between ethics and epistemology
  name:
    name part: Baima, Nicholas R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Paytas, Tyler
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Plato's Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato. According to Plato, the ultimate rational goal is not to accumulate knowledge and avoid falsehood but rather to live an excellent human life. The book contends that a pragmatic outlook is present throughout the Platonic corpus. The authors argue that the successful pursuit of a good life requires cultivating certain ethical commitments, and that maintaining these commitments often requires violating epistemic norms. In the course of defending the pragmatist interpretation, the authors present a forceful Platonic argument for the conclusion that the value of truth has its limits and that what matters most are one's ethical commitments and the courage to live up to them. Their interpretation has far-reaching consequences in that it reshapes how we understand the relationship between Plato's ethics and epistemology. Plato's Pragmatism will appeal to scholars and advanced students of Plato and ancient philosophy. It will also be of interest to those working on current controversies in ethics and epistemology.
  table of contents: Beneficial falsehoods in the Republic : the priority of the practical -- Ethical commitments and persuasion in the laws -- The ring of Gyges and the nature of ethical commitments -- Charming away the fear of death in the Phaedo -- Better, braver, and less idle : faith and inquiry in the Meno -- Absurdity and speciousness in the Protagoras and the Euthydemus -- Philosophers, soul parts, and false beliefs in the Republic -- Truthful gods and the limits of divine assimilation.
  note: Nicholas R. Baima and Tyler Paytas.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [218]-233) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatism
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  classification: B395 .B265 2021
  classification: 184
  identifier: 9780367445423
  identifier: 0367445425
  identifier: 9781003137726
  identifier: 9781000320039
  identifier: 9781000320015
  identifier: 9781000320022
  identifier: 2020037297
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200821
    record change date: 20210728141206.0
    record identifier: in00004434991