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Author:   Susan B. Levin (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Smith College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.604kg
ISBN:  

9780199919802

ISBN 10:   0199919801
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   11 September 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Terms Introduction Chapter 1: The Gorgias' Innovative Lens on Human Existence 1. Introduction 2. Technai v. Empeiriai: The Gorgias' Account of What Is and Is Not Worth Doing 3. The Gorgias' Soul-Body Division 4. Goods Set Apart from the Good 5. Hedonism and Antithetical Ways of Life 6. Order as the Key to Virtue and the Good 7. The Gorgias on Punishment 8. Gorgias 517d-518a and the Dialogue's Final Hierarchy of Human Endeavors 9. The Gorgias' Preeminent Techne of Politics Chapter 2: Medicine in the Gorgias: A Collision Course with Philosophy Is Set 1. Introduction 2. Medicine's Role as Aid and Support to the Gorgias' Castigation of Rhetoric 3. Taking Stock of the Gorgias' Parallels and Debts to Medical Writings 4. The Roots of What Will Become Plato's Head-On Rivalry with Medicine 4.1 Medicine on the Highest Good and the Big Three Epithumiai 4.2 Pain 4.3 Soul 4.4 Microcosmic Hubris 5. Looking Ahead Chapter 3: Eryximachus' Tale: The Symposium's Challenge to Medicine's Preeminence 1. Introduction 2. Eryximachus as Emcee? 3. Macrocosmic Occupations: The Logos of Eryximachus and Its Hippocratic Backdrop 4. Eryximachus' Appropriation and Critique of Heraclitus and Anaximander 5. Desire, Self-Indulgence, and Self-Control: Eryximachus and Arete 6. The Field of Technai: Eryximachus' Loose Construction 7. Concluding Thoughts: Eryximachus' and Our Own Chapter 4: Justice and the Good in Kallipolis: Medicine's Ejection from the Ranks of Technai 1. Introduction 2. The Hippocratic Backdrop 2.1 Treatments 2.2 Conditions 2.3 Non-Disease Impairments 3. The Republic's Account of Medical Practice 4. Philosophers, the Big Three, and the Soul-Body Tie 5. Infallible Philosophers and the Good 6. Medicine a Techne No More 7. The Republic's Hierarchy of Human Endeavors and Medicine's Distinctiveness 8. A Brief Look Ahead Chapter 5: Approaching the Laws by Way of the Statesman 1. Introduction 2. Human Capacity in the Statesman and Republic Compared 3. The Statesman on Human Endeavors 4. Medicine in the Statesman and Its Sociopolitical Milieu 5. The Laws on Phusis and (In)Fallibility: The Laws and Republic Contrasted 6. The Touchstone of Magnesia's Quest for Unity 7. Maintaining Magnesia: The Nocturnal Council as Philosopher-Rulers or Closely Akin Thereto? 7.1 Revising the Law 7.2 Magistrates' Corruptibility 7.3 The Nocturnal Council's Fallibility as a Judge of Character 7.4 Magnesia's Own Cognitive Resources are Insufficient 7.5 Cognitive Adequacy and the Council 8. Conclusion Chapter 6: Medicine in the Laws: A Rivalry Dissolved 1. Introduction 2. The Laws' Opposition to Rhetoricians/Sophists and Poets 3. Medicine in the Laws 4. Magnesia's Ordinary Citizens Front and Center 5. Non-Citizens' Enhanced Position in Magnesia 6. The Gorgias' Uncertainty Resolved Chapter 7: Plato's Legacy to Contemporary Bioethics 1. Introduction 2. Entrenchment in Bioethics' Quest for Alternatives: Two Prominent Illustrations 3. Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis: Aristotle to the Rescue? 4. Bioethics and Plato Thus Far 5. Preconditions of True Doctor-Patient Collaboration: Grounding an Appeal to Plato 6. Bioethics Compared with the Laws on Human Fallibility 7. Parity and Paideia 8. Paideia and Medical School: Island or Way Station? 9. Paideia and (Im)moral Incentives 10. Transparency and Accountability: The Who and What of Knowing 11. Veatch and Brody on Lay People's Values-Contributions 12. Conclusion Bibliography General Index Index Locorum

Reviews

... a well-argued, intellectually challenging, and edifying work that is accessible to a wide range of readers. The fresh light that it shines upon the professional location of physicians within Laws' Magnesia is a particularly valuable contribution, made all the more so by Levin's arguments about how Plato eventually arrived at that point. Of no less importance, though, is Levinas demonstration of how the works of Plato - and ancient thought more broadly - can provide useful insights for exploring contemporary philosophical issues in productive ways. It is my opinion that Levin has achieved this here, and I look forward to seeing further discussion that the book promotes. Tyson Sukava, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Susan B. Levin is Professor of Philosophy at Smith College. She has previously published The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry Revisited: Plato and the Greek Literary Tradition (OUP, 2001) and numerous articles.

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