Platonic Autonomy

Self-Determination, Unity, and Cooperation
Herausgeber: Pettersson, Olof; Remes, Pauliina

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyses Plato's notion of personal autonomy in its philosophical and historical context. Questions an exclusively individualistic account and argues that the autonomous subject is a unified agent who in both collaborative and personal activities originates her own motions and reasons and commits in a profound sense to her own actions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009520485
• ISBN-10: 1009520482
• Artikelnr.: 73534130

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Pauliina Remes and Olof Pettersson; Part I.
Self-Determination: From Legislation to Giving Rational Accounts: 1.
Accounts and accountability: the importance of being Autologizomenos Amber
Carpenter; Part II. Motivational Challenges to Self-Rule: 2. Plato's
problems with aversion Nicholas D. Smith; 3. A complex model of action:
what is ruling? Oda Tvedt; Part III. Internal and External Authorities: 4.
Dialectic and rational agency: establishing self-rule in the republic and
hippias major Franco V. Trivigno; 5. Socrates and conflicting epistemic
requirements: autonomy and authority Toomas Lott; 6. Awakening autonomy:
Olympiodorus' commentary on Plato's Gorgias James M. Ambury; Part IV. The
Limits of Autonomy and Self-Rule: 7. Vulnerability, dialogue, and the
limits of autonomy Marina Berzins McCoy; 8. Plato, dialogue and epistemic
autonomy Olof Pettersson; Part V. Reconciling between Freedom, External
Authority, and Nature: 9. Self-government and law in the crito and the
statesman Charlotta Weigelt; 10. Freedom, willing servitude, and the limits
to autonomy in Plato's Laws Susan Sauvé Meyer; 11. The natural
preconditions of political freedom Andy German.