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Plato on the Human Paradox
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A great thinker once said that all philosophy is merely footnotes to Plato.Through Plato, Father OConnell provides us here with an introduction to all philosophy. Designed for beginning students in philosophy, Plato on the Human Paradox examines and confronts human nature and the eternal questions concerning human nature through the dialogues of Plato, focusing on the Apology, Phaedo, Books III-VI of the Republic, Meno, Symposium, and OConnell presents us here with an introduction to Plato through the philosophers quest to define human excellenceor arete in terms of defining what human beingis body and soul, focusing on Platos preoccupations with the questions of how and what it means to have a good lifein relation to or as opposed to a moral life.

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title	:	Plato On the Human Paradox
author	:	O'Connell, Robert J.
publisher	:	Fordham University Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0823217582
print isbn13	:	9780823217588
ebook isbn13	:	9780585125824
language	:	English
subject	Plato--Contributions in metaphysics, Metaphysics--History.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	B398.M4O26 1997eb
ddc	:	110/.92
subject	:	Plato--Contributions in metaphysics, Metaphysics--History.

Page iii

Plato

On the Human Paradox

by
ROBERT J. O'CONNELL, S.J.

Fordham University Press
New York
1997

Page iv

Copyright 1997 Fordham University Press
All rights reserved.
LC 96-52170
ISBN 0-8232-1757-4 (hardcover)
ISBN 0-8232-1758-2 (paperback)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

O'Connell, Robert J.
Plato on the human paradox / by Robert J. O'Connell.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: An introduction to Plato's metaphysics. 1987.
ISBN 0-8232-1757-4 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8232-1758-2 (pbk.)
1. Plato Contributions in metaphysics. 2. Metaphysics History.
I. O'Connell, Robert J. Introduction to Plato's metaphysics.
II. Title.
B398.M4026

1997

96-52170
110'.92 dc21

CIP

Printed in the United States of America

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Aret or Human Excellence

The Charge Against Socrates

On Emotional Thinking and Socrates's Older Accusers

His Defense of His Conduct: "Moral Cosmos"

Aret, Being "Good At," Having "Know-How"

Good-ness and Profit, Advantageousness

Long-Term Profit

The Specter of Death

Eudaemonism and Its Varieties

Deontologism: The Ethics of Duty

The Categorical Imperative

Deontologism and the Other "Virtues"

Teleologism

The Teleological Universe

Teleologism Reconciles Eudaemonism and Deontologism

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