9780691001784-0691001782-Virtues of Authenticity

Virtues of Authenticity

ISBN-13: 9780691001784
ISBN-10: 0691001782
Edition: 1st
Author: Alexander Nehamas
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback 376 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780691001784
ISBN-10: 0691001782
Edition: 1st
Author: Alexander Nehamas
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback 376 pages

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Virtues of Authenticity (ISBN-13: 9780691001784 and ISBN-10: 0691001782), written by authors Alexander Nehamas, was published by Princeton University Press in 1998. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Greek & Roman (Philosophy, Movements) books. You can easily purchase or rent Virtues of Authenticity (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Greek & Roman books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.28.

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The eminent philosopher and classical scholar Alexander Nehamas presents here a collection of his most important essays on Plato and Socrates. The papers are unified in theme by the idea that Plato's central philosophical concern in metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics was to distinguish the authentic from the fake, the original from its imitations. In approach, the collection displays Nehamas's characteristic combination of analytical rigor and sensitivity to the literary form and dramatic effect of Plato's work. Together, the papers represent Nehamas's distinct and original contributions to scholarship on Plato and Socrates and serve as a comprehensive introduction to the thought of these two philosophers. In the book's opening section, Nehamas discusses Plato's representation of Socrates as a model of authentic human goodness, showing that Plato's Socrates is a more skeptical, troubling, and individualistic thinker than is usually supposed. The papers in the second section form a sustained defense of a new and important understanding of Plato's theory of the forms and the evolution of that theory in Plato's later writings. The third section examines Plato's contention that popular entertainment--by which he meant Greek epic and tragic poetry--misleads its audience into a debased life, an argument Nehamas relates to modern anxieties about television and other forms of popular culture. The collection also includes a discussion of Plato's use of the dialogue form in his representation of Socrates and carefully examines the combination of literary and philosophical elements in his work. Nehamas argues in the book that Plato's specific judgments of what is authentic are often flawed, but that his idea of authenticity as the mark of truth, beauty, and goodness is stronger than many modern scholars have assumed. In drawing together Nehamas's many influential ideas about Plato and Socrates, Virtues of Authenticity is a maj

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