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Plato on the Unity of the Virtues - A Dialectic Reading (Hardcover)
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Plato on the Unity of the Virtues - A Dialectic Reading (Hardcover)
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Plato in the Protagoras suggests that the virtues are profoundly
unified yet also distinct. In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A
Dialectic Reading, Rod Jenks argues that the way in which they are
both one and many is finally ineffable. He shows how, elsewhere in
the corpus, Plato countenances ineffability. Jenks's interpretation
of Protagoras accounts for the otherwise-inexplicable inability of
both Socrates and Protagoras to identify the bone of contention
between them. Not only can the thesis not be argued for; it can't
even be properly stated. Jenks shows how the long exegesis on the
Simonides poem is philosophically relevant. Further, he shows that
both the parts-of-the-face analogy and the gold analogy are
inadequate, arguing that Plato intends them to be so. Jenks
explains why the unity thesis is supported by-what most scholars
agree are-terrible arguments: the virtues are both one and many. He
explains why, in spite of the unity claim being profoundly elusive,
Plato believes it to be crucial that we come to appreciate how
virtue, which really does have parts, can also be profoundly one.
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