Imperfect Virtue

Kamtekar, Rachana

doi:10.5840/ancientphil199818233

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“…See (Hobbs 2000). 12 I am relying here on (Kamtekar 1998). 13 I thank N. Baima for pointing this difficulty out to me.…”

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Thumos and doxa as intermediates in the Republic

Renaut¹

2018

Plato Journal

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Broadly speaking, something can be called intermediate for Plato insofar as it occupies a place between two objects, poles, places, time, or principles. But this broad meaning of the intermediate has been eclipsed by the Aristotelian critique of the intermediate objects of the dianoia, so that it has become more difficult to think of the intermediates as functions of the soul. The aim of this paper is to show how, in the Republic, thumos is analogously treated as an intermediate with other kinds of intermediate objects, and tentatively to relate this psychological intermediate in a broader theory with doxa, as its epistemological ground in the course of action.

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“…See (Hobbs 2000). 12 I am relying here on (Kamtekar 1998). 13 I thank N. Baima for pointing this difficulty out to me.…”

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Thumos and doxa as intermediates in the Republic

Renaut¹

2018

Plato Journal

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“…32 Kamtekar (1998) has shown how we might accept that the virtues of the auxiliaries are 'imperfect' in the sense that they only rely on true opinion and are lacking 'counterfactual reliability'. Whereas Kamtekar stresses the epistemic grounds of this 'imperfect virtue', I wish to stress the importance of politics in the constitution of these true opinions.…”

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Political Images of the Soul

Renaut¹

2017

Plato and the Power of Images

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“…While a failure to refer to previous literature is sometimes justified when an article asks an innovative question, it is not always justified here. For instance, Kraut's paper on civic virtue takes no account of recent work on these topics in Plato (for example, Kamtekar 1998, Wilberding 2009, or Broadie 2004) and makes only two references to previous literature. Likewise, Kamtekar's article is only the latest in a recent series of essays on non-verbal elements of moral education: for example Schofield 2010, following Ford 2004.…”

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Plato’s Laws: A Critical Guide. Edited by Christopher Bobonich

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2012

Ancient Philosophy

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Imperfect Virtue

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Thumos and doxa as intermediates in the Republic

Thumos and doxa as intermediates in the Republic

Political Images of the Soul

Plato’s Laws: A Critical Guide. Edited by Christopher Bobonich

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