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  title info:
    title: Vice in ancient philosophy
    sub title: Plato and Aristotle on moral ignorance and corruption of character
  name:
    name part: Nielsen, Karen Margrethe
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 64 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Ancient philosophers offer intriguing accounts of vice, virtue's bad twin. This Element considers injustice and lawlessness in Plato and Aristotle. Starting with Socrates' paradoxical claim that 'tyrants and orators do just about nothing they want to do' (Gorgias 466d-e), it examines discussions of moral ignorance and corruption of character in Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle's account of vice is indebted to Plato's. But his claims have confounded critics. Why is the vicious agent full of regrets when he acts in accordance with his wish? To what extent is vice a form of moral ignorance? Why will the unjust man never get what he wants? These and other questions yield new insights into ancient Greek ethics and moral psychology, as well as surprising perspectives on contemporary debates.
  table of contents: Desire and great power in the Gorgias -- The tyrant's vice in the Republic -- Vice and moral ignorance in the Nicomachean ethics.
  note: Karen Margrethe Nielsen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [61]-64).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Aristotle
  subject:
    topic: Vice
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Ancient
  classification: B187.V53 N54 2023
  classification: 179/.8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge elements
      part name: Elements in ancient philosophy
  identifier: 1108713432
  identifier: 9781108713436
  identifier: 1009468030
  identifier: 9781009468039
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 231101
    record change date: 20240531134602.2
    record identifier: in00004791048