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Plato on Ethical Disagreement

Plato on Ethical Disagreement 50 Plato on Ethical Disagreement* JASON XENAKIS I SOME of the things Plato says in the Euthyphro and the Philebus can be described in terms of the above title. It seems to me that they have not been duly pressed. My purpose in this paper is to throw some new light on them and try to answer the question, What is their bearing on moral, esthetic or even logical appraisals, criticism, delibe- ration and choice-are they helpful or relevant to what we are doing today in theory and practice? Concerning Plato's ethics and esthetics, the official opinion is that he is an 'absolutist', ?objectivist' and the like, and though I do not deny that many of the things he says in this connection do lend themselves to such an interpretation, I also believe that some others lend themselves to an alternative interpretation which I am about to propose and which seems to me to make more sense or to be more pregnant than the official one. Let me stress, however, that my approach is not so much inspired by a desire to be textually faithful to Plato as by a desire to induce him to tell us a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Phronesis Brill

Plato on Ethical Disagreement

Phronesis , Volume 1 (1): 50 – Jan 1, 1955

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Brill
Copyright
© 1955 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0031-8868
eISSN
1568-5284
DOI
10.1163/156852855X00050
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50 Plato on Ethical Disagreement* JASON XENAKIS I SOME of the things Plato says in the Euthyphro and the Philebus can be described in terms of the above title. It seems to me that they have not been duly pressed. My purpose in this paper is to throw some new light on them and try to answer the question, What is their bearing on moral, esthetic or even logical appraisals, criticism, delibe- ration and choice-are they helpful or relevant to what we are doing today in theory and practice? Concerning Plato's ethics and esthetics, the official opinion is that he is an 'absolutist', ?objectivist' and the like, and though I do not deny that many of the things he says in this connection do lend themselves to such an interpretation, I also believe that some others lend themselves to an alternative interpretation which I am about to propose and which seems to me to make more sense or to be more pregnant than the official one. Let me stress, however, that my approach is not so much inspired by a desire to be textually faithful to Plato as by a desire to induce him to tell us a

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Published: Jan 1, 1955

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