The Emerging Good in Plato's Philebus

Evanston, IL, USA: Northwestern University Press (2017)
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Abstract

This study examines Plato's dialogue on the good life and argues, most centrally, that the "pleasures of learning" exemplify, for Socrates, the possibility of good becoming or change.

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