Phronimon Volume 2 Number 1 (2000)

Phronimon Volume 2 Number 1 (2000)

 

Contents
Antonites, A.J. Is democracy the best expression of justice, virtues and citizenship? 1
Athansopoulos, C. The ontological relation of value, virtue and justice 15
Bargeliotes, L.C. Plethon's conception of justice and law 23
Botha, C. Social justice and genetic engineering: what Plato might have said 30
Boudouris, K. The just republic and the idea of citizenship in the age of global communication 41
Boudouris, S. The citizenship of the philosopher 56
Domanski, A. Principles of justice in Plato's Republic 69
Duffey, I. An African challenge to the western logics of excess 84
Duvenage, P. Philosophike matyria. Aristotle, Gadamer and the relevance of practical-ethical knowledge in a multicultural society 95
Evangeliou, C. Justice as virtue and harmony: a socratic account1 111
Gericke, J.D. Platonic justice for the new millennium? 129
Higgs, P. The virtue of education 144
Kasotaki-Gatopoulou, I. Women as citizens in Plato's "Politeia" 156
Ladikos, A. Plato's views on crime and punishment 166
Lambrellis, D.N. Citizenship, virtue and the "theory-praxis" problem: a Platonic approach 175
Maniatis, Y.N. Alteration and identity: Heraclitus, the earlier Presocratics, and contemporary science 189
Marangianou, E. nou, E. The necessity of the feminine virtues in the formation of the citizen 205
Maré, E.A. The Doric column: a representation of the norm of virtue 212
Maritz, P.J. The status of non-citizens: equivalence between Platonic and contemporary citizenship 220
Marshall, A.H. Plato, humanity and globalisation 231
Mohamed, Y. Greek thought in Arab ethics: Miskawayh's theory of justice 242
Papadopoulos, V. Justice as a cause of the 1821 Greek revolution 260
Philippoussis, J. The periclean notions of 'justice, excellence and citizenship' 275
Rauche, G.A. The relationship between ethics (theory) and morality (practice) 295
Savulescu, G. Platonic justice and the unconscious 304
Sotshangane, N. Aristotle's Philosophy of Human Life 312
Strauss, D.F.M. Plato on justice as virtue - a safeguard against a static metaphysics of being and a postmodern meaning-relativism? 322
Tsolis, T.L. The Stoic cosmopolis: a vision of justice and virtue in a multicultural society 336
van Marle, K. The universe is made of stories, not of atoms 346

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