{"product_id":"platos-moral-realism-john-m-rist-9780813219790","title":"Plato's Moral Realism: The Discovery of the Presuppositions of Ethics","description":"\u003cp\u003eSurveying many of Plato's dialogues from the early, middle, and late periods, prominent philosopher John M. Rist shows how Plato gradually came to realize the need for metaphysics to support his ethical position and that a rigorous ethics required a secure metaphysics grounded in universal values.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlato came to realize that his earlier attempts to construct the relevant metaphysics, culminating in the \u003ci\u003eRepublic, \u003c\/i\u003e were incomplete and his argumentation was insufficiently rigorous. Rist explains Plato's ongoing refinement of the theory of Forms and his hesitant attempts to relate claims about Forms to ideas about a divine mind (or god), which could offer an account of a transcendent reality as not only a formal and final cause of cosmic goodness and providence, but also an efficient cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRist concludes the book by considering what more would be needed to complete Plato's theory without making damaging compromises to the basic principles of his metaphysics of morals. He sketches how Plato might reply to various contemporary approaches to moral reasoning and especially moral obligation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn M. Rist is the Kurt Pritzl, O.P., Chair in Philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He is professor emeritus of classics and philosophy at the University of Toronto and, most recently, visiting professor at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome. The author of more than a dozen books, Rist has published extensively on the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Neoplatonism, ethics, and patristics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John M. Rist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813219795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813219790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catholic University of America Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2013","brand":"John M. Rist","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065173881087,"sku":"9780813219790","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_adb862fe-4e89-4bc9-a00b-721bab5d93d8.jpg?v=1768673478","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/platos-moral-realism-john-m-rist-9780813219790","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}