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Original Articles

The Logic of Virtue in the Republic

Pages 11-27 | Published online: 01 Jul 2013

References

  • 1969 . Plato: The Republic All quotations of Plato will be taken from the translations of either P. Shorey, (Loeb Classical Library, or F. M. Cornford, The Republic of Plato (Oxford, 1968). An ‘S’ before the.Stephanus number indicates Shorey's translation; a ‘C’, Cornford's. The latter is used mainly when elegance is thought more desirable than literalness.
  • Rawls , J. 1971 . A Theory of justice (Harvard, sections 12, 13, 17.
  • Sesonske , A. , ed. 1966 . Plato's Republic The account of virtue given here is heavily indebted to that of H. S. Thayer, “Plato: The Theory and Language of Function,” in (Wadsworth,. However, there are terminological and other differences between them.
  • Sparshott , F. 1958 . Enquiry into Goodness (Toronto, p. 11 6.
  • 1941 . Ethica Nichomachea trans. W. D. Ross, in The Basic Works of Aristotie, R. McKeon (Random House.
  • 1951 . Ethica Nichomachea trans. P. Wheelwright, in Aristotle (Odyssey,.
  • Ibid.
  • 1968 . The ambiguity is more apparent in some translations than others, and not at all apparent in Cornford's.
  • Meditations in Descartes Philosophical Works, trans. E. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross (Cambridge, no. vi, p. 186.
  • 1973 . Ethics 80 – 83 . This is not to deny that virtues might be counted by some normal people as having either what Frankena calls inherent or contributory value. It is at least to deny that all normal people must accord intrinsic value to these virtues; according to the usual interpretation this is what Plato is trying to prove about justice. See W. Frankena, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall, pp.
  • Sparshott , F. 1970 . “Five Virtues in Plato and Aristotle,” . In Monist (January.
  • Vlastos , G. 1971 . “Justice and Happiness in the ” . In Republic ” in his Piato, Vol. II (Doubleday, p. 74.
  • CJP The editors and referees of have been remarkably helpful to me regarding this essay, and I thank them.

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