This book is the first extended attempt to explain Plato's ethics of natural law, to place it accurately in the history of moral theory, and to defend it against the objections that it is totalitarian. John Daniel Wild provides a clarification and defense of Plato's ethical doctrine based not only on his analysis of the dialogues, but on the belief that Plato must be acknowledged as the founder of the Western natural law philosophy. The book begins with a presentation of the major objections raised against Plato by modern ...
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This book is the first extended attempt to explain Plato's ethics of natural law, to place it accurately in the history of moral theory, and to defend it against the objections that it is totalitarian. John Daniel Wild provides a clarification and defense of Plato's ethical doctrine based not only on his analysis of the dialogues, but on the belief that Plato must be acknowledged as the founder of the Western natural law philosophy. The book begins with a presentation of the major objections raised against Plato by modern authors -Toynbee, Karl Popper, and others who have condemned the so-called totalitarianism of Plato's thought. Wild answers these objections point by point with a wealth of evidence taken from Plato's own arguments. He then presents a historical study of the ethics of natural law, defining the theory and showing that Plato held such a theory. The work concludes with a systematic study of his realistic ethics and its bearing on contemporary problems.
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Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xi, 259pp. Very good/very good. Front flyleaf ownership signature and a number of small, discreet inked "x"s and parentheses in margins; jacket faintly worn, with spine age toned. Tight, nice first edition.
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In an era when elite opinion that ethics can be constructed according to the whims of the times, Wild presents a powerful defense of the classical notion that the good is founded in human nature's drive for fulfillment. This book should act as a clear corrective to those who have foisted the dictatorship of relativism upon an unsuspecting and helpless public. There may yet be some who are still intelligent enough to listen.
