Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life

By Daniel Russell

Book Overview

Daniel Russell develops a fresh and original view of pleasure and its pivotal role in Plato's treatment of value, happiness, and human psychology. This is the first full-length discussion of the topic for fifty years, and Russell shows its relevance to contemporary debates in moral philosophy and philosophical psychology. Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life will make fascinating reading for ancient specialists and for a wide range of philosophers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199282846
• ISBN13: 9780199282845
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"