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Plato’s Conception of Justice and the Question of Human Dignity By Marek Piechowiak 2019. 296 pp. 57.10 Euro/72.75 USD. Hardcover/E-Book/PDF. ISBN: 978-3-631-65970-0 [hardcover]. (Philosophy and Cultural Studies Revisited / Historisch-genetische Studien zur Philosophie und Kulturgeschichte) This book is the first comprehensive study of Plato’s conception of justice. The universality of human rights and the universality of human dignity, which is recognised as their source, are among the crucial philosophical problems in modern-day legal orders and in contemporary culture in general. If dignity is genuinely universal, then human beings also possessed it in ancient times. Plato not only perceived human dignity, but a recognition of dignity is also visible in his conception of justice, which forms the core of his philosophy. Plato’s «Republic» is consistently interpreted here as a treatise on justice, relating to an individual and not to the state. The famous myth of the cave is a story about [...]

Les philosophes face au vice, de Socrate à Augustin Edited by/édité par Christelle Veillard, Olivier Renaut & Dimitri El Murr. July 2020. 314 pp. 143,00 Euro. Hardcover/PDF. ISBN: 978-90-04-43238-3 [hardcover]. (Philosophia Antiqua 154) [English] Virtue is undoubtedly one of the core issues for the ethical and political theories of ancient philosophers and is therefore well-worn territory for scholars of ancient philosophy. Les philosophes face au vice, de Socrate à Augustin breaks new ground by considering how the main ancient philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine) and philosophical schools (Epicureans, Stoics) considered vice, the opposite of virtue, how they described the many vices, delineated their various kinds, accounted for their causes and effects, and reflected on how to cure them, and, even, use them on the path toward virtue. The book gathers 15 original contributions in English, French and Italian by leading scholars in the field of ancient philosophy and classics. [Français] [...]

Platonische Aufsätze By Rafael Ferber 2020. 400 pp. 89,95 Euro. Hardcover/PDF/E-Book. ISBN: 978-3-11-063334-4 [hardcover]. (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 386) [English] The volume contains a selection of essays on Plato from his Socratic beginnings to his aftermath in the works of Donald Davidson and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Particular attention is paid to the Idea of the Good and the question of its transcendence and immanence. [Deutsch] Der Band enthält von Rafael Ferber eine Auswahl von Aufsätzen zu Platon von seinen sokratischen Anfängen bis zu seiner Nachwirkung bei Donald Davidson und Hans Georg Gadamer. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Problematik der Idee des Guten und der Frage ihrer Transzendenz und Immanenz.

Platon und die Physis Edited by/Herausgegeben von Dietmar Koch, Irmgard Männlein-Robert & Niels Weidtmann 2020. 289 pp. 69,00 Euro. Hardcover/E-Book. ISBN: 978-3-16-157739-0. (Tübinger Platon-Tage 1) [English] This is a selection of articles presented at the international »Tübinger Platon-Tage« (Symposium on Plato) which took place in 2016. These papers, which vary thematically and methodologically, study Plato's semantically and philosophically broad concept of physis, focusing on biology, medicine, anthropology and cosmology as well as ontological, epistemological, educational and theological issues. Thus this volume documents the highlights of current and international Plato research, a timeless and fascinating subject. [Deutsch] Der vorliegende Band umfasst Beiträge zu einem zentralen Thema bei Platon: 'Physis' kann bei Platon im naturwissenschaftlichen Sinne als physische, biologische, materielle Natur oder im übertragenen Sinne als eigenes Wesen, etwa hinsichtlich Seele, Kosmos oder Göttlichem, verstanden werden. So werden in diesem Band medizinische, biologische und kosmologische Ansätze ebenso wie ontologische, epistemologische und pädagogische Themen [...]