Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good

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Acknowledgements Preface Glossary 1. The puzzle of Plato's thumos 2. Thumos, andreia and the ethics of flourishing 3. Arms and the man: andreia in the Laches 4. Odd virtue out: courage and goodness in the Protagoras 5. Why should I be good? Callicles, Thrasymachus and the egoist challenge 6. Heroes and role models: the Apology, Hippias Major and Hippias Minor 7. The threat of Achilles 8. Plato's response: the valuable as one 9. Alcibiades' revenge: thumos in the Symposium Epilogue: The weaver's art: andreia in the Politicus and Laws Bibliography Index.

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