Plato on Virtue and the Law (Hardcover)

Chapter One: Some Key Concepts in Ancient Virtue Ethics 1. Plato and Aristotle's Virtue Ethics 2.Agent Focused and Agent Based Virtue Ethics 3.What is Virtue Jurisprudence? Chapter Two: Obedience and Persuading the Laws in the Crito 1. Introduction 2. The incompatibility problem introduced. 3. Unconditional Obedience. 4. Agreement. 5. The Role of the Laws: the Parent Analogy. 6. The Crito, the Apology, and Civil Disobedience. Chapter Three: Promoting and Preserving Virtue in the Menexenus 1. Introduction 2. The relevance of Plato's proposal to contemporary debates 3. Alternative Accounts: Slote and the Republic 4. The Argument in the Menexenus 5. Why the Virtue Politics Account is not Overly Paternalistic. Chapter Four: Virtue as Mental Health in the Gorgias and Other Dialogues 1.The Model of Psychic Health in Plato. 2.How the model works: elenchos as therapy. 3.Virtue and the situationists. 4.Community service for offenders as elenctic therapy: a case study. Chapter Five: Paternalism in the Republic 1.A problem and a solution? 2.Paternalism in the Republic 3.Educating the philosopher kings and the rest. 4.Paternalism in education. 5.Conclusion. Chapter Six: The Statesman and Equity 1.Introduction. 2.Two attitudes to the laws in the Statesman. 3.The anti-democratic reading of the second claim. 4.Equity. 5.An objection. 6.Making way for the Laws. Chapter Seven: The Laws: Persuading the citizens 1.Introduction. 2.Preambles. 3.The two audiences for the preambles. 4.Are the preambles paternalistic? 5.Persuading the Laws. Chapter Eight: Towards virtue-promoting Democratic Institutions 1.A flourishing environment: from laws to institutions. 2.Can democratic institutions be wisdom promoting? 3.Can wisdom-promoting laws be produced democratically? 4. Two examples: racism and sexism.