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Bodily pleasures deceive the soul into confusing what is real. The hedonist's pursuit of pleasure is tantamount to carrying water in a sieve. Yet, the philosopher's life, Plato insists, is 729 times more pleasant than the tyrant's. Pleasure runs through the Platonic corpus as both the greatest threat to a good life and one of its defining marks. Plato engages this tension dialogue by dialogue. This volume brings together ten new essays by leading scholars on pleasure, organised around three themes: misleading pleasures, the cognitive complexity of pleasure, and pleasure in the good life. Together, they show why moral psychology is the indispensable framework for understanding what Platonic pleasure is and what it is worth.
Price: $194.00
Pages: 356
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Plato Studies Series
Publication Date:
15 April 2027
ISBN: 9789004781009
Format: Hardcover
Joachim Aufderheide is Reader in Philosophy at King's College London. His research centres on the ethics and moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, and on cross-traditional work connecting ancient Greek and Buddhist thought. He edited and translated Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X”.
Mehmet M. Erginel is Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy at Eastern Mediterranean University. He works primarily on Platonic moral psychology. He has published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, The Classical Quarterly, and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
Mehmet M. Erginel is Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy at Eastern Mediterranean University. He works primarily on Platonic moral psychology. He has published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, The Classical Quarterly, and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.