Plato on the Human Paradox

A great thinker once said that all philosophy is merely footnotes to Plato.

Through Plato, Father O'Connell provides us here with an introduction to all philosophy. Designed for beginning students in philosophy, Plato on the Human Paradox examines and confronts human nature and the eternal questions concerning human nature through the dialogues of Plato, focusing on the Apology, Phaedo, Books III-VI of the Republic, Meno, Symposium, and O'Connell presents us here with an introduction to Plato through the philosopher's quest to define human excellence or arete in terms of defining what human being is body and soul, focusing on Plato's preoccupations with the questions of how and what it means to have a good life in relation to or as opposed to a moral life.

Author: Robert J. O'Connell
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 01/01/1997
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.72h x 5.68w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780823217571

About the Author
Robert J. O'Connell, S. J. was a Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. His has five publications on St. Augustine, as well as several studies of Plato, William James, and Teilhard de Chardin. In 2015 he established the O'Connell established the O'Connell Initiative at Fordham, a forum for intellectual exploration, that brought together scholars of every aspect of capitalism.