Title: On the good life : thinking through the intermediaries in Plato's Philebus /
Authors: Ionescu, Cristina, 1977-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Plato.; Philebus (Plato)
Contents: The unity of the Philebus: metaphysical assumptions of the good human life -- The placement of pleasure and knowledge in the fourfold articulation of reality -- Hybrid varieties of pleasure: true mixed pleasures and false pure pleasures -- The nature of pleasure: absolute standards of filling or replenishment and due measure -- Pleasures of learning and the role of due measure in experiencing them -- Plato's conception of pleasure confronting three Aristotelian critiques -- The Philebus' implicit response to the aporiai of participation from the Parmenides.