Description: This important monograph examines Plato's contribution to virtue ethics and shows how his dialogues contain interesting and plausible insights into current philosophical concerns.
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Sandrine Bergès is Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University, Turkey. She is the author of The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2013) and co-editor of The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (2018), Women Philosophers on Autonomy (2018). She is the translator of Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on Sympathy (2019).
Review Quotes: "This is a marvelous book that undertakes the novel but vital project of examining Plato's dialogues for the insights they provide into virtue ethics and especially the implications of virtue ethics for political philosophy. Anyone interested in Plato, contemporary virtue ethics or contemporary political philosophy will benefit from reading it." - Professor Chris Bobonich, Stanford University, USA