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    Protagoras, Philebus, and Gorgias. Plato - 1920 - Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. Edited by Protagoras, Plato & Benjamin Jowett.
    Is virtue teachable? What should we value as an ideal? Is pleasure or perception the highest good that ought to be the object of our lives? Three of Plato's most important dialogues are brought together in a single volume to address these concerns which continue to occupy serious minds today. In the Protagoras Plato attempts to answer questions about the nature of virtue and whether it is inherent in humans or a subject capable of being taught. In the Philebus (...)
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  2. The Philebus, Part 2: Pleasure Transformed, or How the Necessity of Pleasure for Happiness is Consistent with the Sufficiency of Virtue for Happiness.Daniel Russell - 2005 - In Daniel C. Russell (ed.), Plato on pleasure and the good life. New York: Oxford University Press.
    In Philebus, Plato makes clear his view that pleasure is actually part of the agent's own goodness, because her goodness consists in, among other things, the sorts of attitudes she has and perspectives she adopts in the various dimensions of her life, and her pleasure is itself just such a crucial attitude and perspective. When Plato says that pleasure is necessary for happiness, he does not mean that good character could never be enough for happiness without pleasure. Rather, as (...)
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  3. The Philebus on Pleasure: The Good, the Bad and the False.Verity Harte - 2004 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104 (1):113-130.
    In Plato's "Philebus" Socrates and Protarchus dispute whether pleasure, like belief, can be false. Their dispute illustrates a broader pattern of disagreement between them about how to evaluate pleasure. Of two contrasting conceptions of false pleasure-derived from work by Bernard Williams and by Sabina Lovibond respectively-false pleasure of the Lovibond type best answers the challenge to which Protarchus' resistance gives rise. Socrates' own example of false pleasure may be read in this way, in contrast to its prevailing interpretation, and (...)
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    An Inconsistency in the Philebus?Joachim Aufderheide - 2013 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (5):817 - 837.
    Plato's Philebus contains an intricate difficulty. Plato seems to hold both (a) that all pleasures are processes of becoming, a crucial premise in the argument that no pleasure is good (53c?55c) and (b) that some pleasures contribute in their own right to the goodness of the best life (64c?67b). Since it seems also plausible that only things which are good can contribute to the goodness of the best life in their own right, Plato's view seems to be inconsistent. Interpreters (...)
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    Philebus.James Wood (ed.) - 2019 - Peterborough, CA: Broadview Press.
    The _Philebus _is the only Platonic dialogue that takes as its central theme the fundamental Socratic question of the good, understood as that which makes for the best or happiest life. This predominantly ethical theme not only involves an extended psychological and epistemological investigation of topics such as sensation, memory, desire, anticipation, the truth and falsity of pleasures, and types and gradations of knowledge, but also a methodological exposition of dialectic and a metaphysical schema, found nowhere else in the dialogues, (...)
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    Philebus 23c-26d: Peras, Apeiron, and Meikton as Measure Theory.George Rudebusch - 2021 - Plato Journal 22.
    At Philebus 23c4-26d10 Socrates makes a division into three kinds: Unbounded (apeiron), Bound (peras), and Mix (meikton). I review problems for the main interpretations of Unbounded and Mix and review kinds of scales defined in abstract measurement theory. Then I take 23c4-26d10 speech by speech, interpreting the Unbounded as a kind containing partial scales, Bound as the kind containing the relations and quantities needed to turn partial scales into appropriate ratio scales, and Mix as the kind containing ratio scales (...)
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  7. The Philebus, Part 1: Virtue, Value, and ‘Likeness to God’.Daniel Russell - 2005 - In Daniel C. Russell (ed.), Plato on pleasure and the good life. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Unraveling likeness to God in Plato requires a fresh approach that makes the greatest sense of it within Plato's larger moral philosophy. Such an understanding of likeness to God can be found by taking a fresh look at it through the lens of Plato's Philebus, where we find the idea that virtue is part of the divine realm right alongside the down-to-earth idea that virtue is rational activity in relation to the world as we find it. This chapter argues (...)
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  8. Plato. Philebus and Epinomis.A. E. Taylor - 1956 - Philosophy 34 (129):182-183.
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    Plato's Philebus.Donald Davidson - 1990 - New York: Garland.
    The Philebus is hard to reconcile with standard interpretations of Plato’s philosophy and in this pioneering work Donald Davidson, seeks to take the Philebus at face value and to reassess Plato’s late philosophy in the light of the results. The author maintains that the approach to ethics in the Philebus represents a considerable return to the methodology of the earlier dialogues. He emphasizes Plato’s reversion to the Socratic elenchus and connects it with the startling reappearance of Socrates (...)
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    Philebus 11b: Good or the Good.George Rudebusch - 2020 - Apeiron 53 (2):161-185.
    The sentence setting the stage for the philosophical investigation within the Philebus is, naively translated, “He says that to enjoy is good.” Instead of the predicate adjective “good,” most interpreters prefer to translate with a definite description, “the good,” with consequences that affect the interpretation of the dialogue as a whole. Part one defends the naïve translation, both in the context of Socrates’ first seven speeches and viewing the dialogue as a whole. Part two considers and rejects the reasons (...)
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    Investigation of ‘μέτρον’ in the Philebus – a critique of pleasure in Plato's later years.Guo Wenya - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
    In the Philebus, Plato considers pleasure to be part of the good life. Always despises pleasure, Plato, however, no longer insists on extreme rationalism, instead, he reconciles reason and pleasure with the fundamental principle of ‘measure’ In the Philebus, Plato considers ‘measure (μέτρον)’ to be of the highest value. He not only argues for the concrete application of ‘measure’ in the sensual world, but also confirms the metaphysical ground of ‘measure’. Many scholars have discussed the application of ‘measure’ (...)
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  12. The Philebus commentary.Marsilio Ficino - 1975 - Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Edited by Michael J. B. Allen.
     
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    The Jellyfish’s Pleasures: Philebus 20b-21d.Katharine R. O’Reilly - 2019 - Phronesis 64 (3):277-291.
    Scholars have characterised the trial of the life of pleasure in Philebus 20b-21d as digressive or pejorative. I argue that it is neither: it is a thought experiment containing an important argument, in the form of a reductio, of the hypothesis that a life could be most pleasant without cognition. It proceeds in a series of steps, culminating in the precisely chosen image of the jellyfish. Understanding the intended resonance of this creature, and the sense in which it is (...)
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    Philebus.Robin Plato & Waterfield - 1993 - Oxford: Clarendon Press. Edited by J. C. B. Gosling.
    A translation of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge. It includes a cogent introduction, notes, and comprehensive bibliography.
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    The Ranking of the Goods at Philebus 66a-67b.P. M. Lang - 2010 - Phronesis 55 (2):153-169.
    At the very end of Plato's Philebus Socrates and Protarchus place the goods of a human life in a hierarchy (66a-67b). Previous interpretations of this passage have concentrated upon its relevance to the good human life, including the allowance of (true and pure) pleasures. This view picks up Plato's metaphor of a mixture of reason and pleasure, but the ranking of the goods is emphatically a vertical stratification and not a mixture in which all elements are equally fundamental. In (...)
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  16. The Philebus of Plato.R. G. Bury - 1898 - International Journal of Ethics 8 (4):511-516.
  17. Philebus (greek and english). Plato - unknown
     
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    The Philebus.C. Meinwald - 2008 - In Gail Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato. Oxford University Press. pp. 484--503.
    Plato's brainchild, the Philebus discusses the good human life and the claims of pleasure on the one hand and a cluster containing intelligence, wisdom, and right opinion on the other in connection with that life. The article talks about the notions of good human life and the pleasures surrounding it. Plato includes extended treatment of metaphysics and methodology: this is his typical supplement to the procedure of his own Socratic dialogues, which considered human questions in isolation from other issues. (...)
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    Normativity in Plato’s Philebus.Jeffrey J. Fisher - 2020 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50 (8):966-980.
    This paper extracts and articulates the account of normativity in Plato’s Philebus. Central to this account is the concept of measure, which plays both an ontological and a normative role. With regard to the former, measure is what makes particular things to be the specific kind of thing they are; with regard to the latter, measure supplies the appropriate standard for determining whether or not those things are good or bad instances of their kind. As a result of measure (...)
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    Plato, Philebus 65 c.D. A. Rees - 1947 - The Classical Review 61 (3-4):75-.
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    The Philebus and the art of persuasion.R. F. Stalley - 2010 - In Plato’s Philebus: Selected Papers From the Eighth Symposium Platonicum. pp. 227-236.
  22. Philebus, laws and self-ignorance.Harold Tarrant - 2018 - In James M. Ambury & Andy R. German (eds.), Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
     
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  23. Philebus and Epinomis.A. E. Taylor, Raymond Klibansky, G. Calogero & A. C. Lloyd - 1957 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 62 (2):223-224.
     
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    Plato's Philebus.Donald Davidson - 1990 - New York: Routledge.
    The _Philebus_ is hard to reconcile with standard interpretations of Plato’s philosophy and in this pioneering work Donald Davidson, seeks to take the _Philebus _at face value and to reassess Plato’s late philosophy in the light of the results. The author maintains that the approach to ethics in the _Philebus _represents a considerable return to the methodology of the earlier dialogues. He emphasizes Plato’s reversion to the Socratic elenchus and connects it with the startling reappearance of Socrates as the leading (...)
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    The Philebus.G. E. R. Lloyd - 1977 - The Classical Review 27 (02):173-.
  26. Next to Godliness: Pleasure and Assimilation in God in the Philebus.Suzanne Obdrzalek - 2012 - Apeiron 45 (1):1-31.
    According to Plato's successors, assimilation to god (homoiosis theoi) was the end (telos) of the Platonic system. There is ample evidence to support this claim in dialogues ranging from the Symposium through the Timaeus. However, the Philebus poses a puzzle for this conception of the Platonic telos. On the one hand, Plato states that the gods are beings beyond pleasure while, on the other hand, he argues that the best human life necessarily involves pleasure. In this paper, I argue (...)
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    Plato: Philebus.James J. Tierney - 1975 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 24:265-266.
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    Plato, Philebus 15B: a problem solved.F. Muniz - 2004 - Classical Quarterly 54 (2):394-405.
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    Problems with the Life of Pleasure: The Γένεσις Argument in Plato's Philebus.Derek Van Zoonen - 2021 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 59 (2):167-191.
    At Philebus 53c4–55a12, Plato’s Socrates identifies pleasure as an ontologically inferior “becoming” (γένεσις) rather than a “being” (οὐσία) and then uses this information to infer that pleasure, somehow, lacks value. This paper argues that Plato’s γένεσις argument is not about the goodness of individual, particular episodes of pleasure but instead targets the identification of pleasure as the good around which we ought to organize our lives. It also shows that the argument is made up of two subarguments—the argument from (...)
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    Philebus, 35a6-10.J. M. Lee - 1966 - Phronesis 11 (1):31 - 34.
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    Plato Philebus, translated by James Wood.Kelly E. Arenson - 2020 - Ancient Philosophy 40 (2):490-494.
  32. Commentary on Vallejo: the Ontology of False Pleasures in the Philebus.Rachel Singpurwalla - 2009 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 24:75-80.
    In his rich and suggestive paper, Alvaro Vallejo argues for the novel thesis that Plato posits a form of pleasure in the Republic and the Philebus. Vallejo argues that the notion of a Platonic form of pleasure best explains other things that Plato says about pleasure. First, Plato draws a distinction between true pleasure and the appearance of pleasure. Second, Plato uses the same language to describe the relationship between forms and their inferior instantiations as he uses to describe (...)
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    Plato: Philebus: Translated with Commentary.J. C. B. Gosling - 1975 - Oxford University Press.
    A clear accurate translation of one of Plato's most facinating dialogues, with an extensive philosophical commentary.
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    Must Philebus 59a-c Refer to Transcendent Forms?Roger A. Shiner - 1979 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 17 (1):71-77.
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    Philebus and Epinomis. [REVIEW]B. C. - 1956 - Review of Metaphysics 10 (2):367-368.
    Readable translations of Plato's Philebus and Epinomis, from A. E. Taylor's unpublished papers, with the Sophistes and Politicus to follow in a further volume. The long introduction to the Philebus by Taylor amounts to a commentary; it is clear, well-organized, perceptive on the psychological-ethical level, sometimes suggestive on the metaphysical level. Lloyd's introduction to the Epinomis summarizes the problems of its content, and the discussion of its genuineness, with special reference to Taylor's position, sensibly concludes that the question (...)
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  36. Plato: Philebus 15 A, B.R. Q. Bury - 1908 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 21:108.
     
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    Philebus.Verity Harte - 2012 - In Associate Editors: Francisco Gonzalez Gerald A. Press (ed.), The Continuum Companion to Plato. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 81-83.
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  38. The Philebus and the Good: the Unity of the Dialogue in which the Good is Unity.Kenneth M. Sayre - 1987 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 2:45-71.
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    Plato's Philebus: A Philosophical Discussion.Panos Dimas, Russell E. Jones & Gabriel R. Lear (eds.) - 2019 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This is the inaugural volume of the Plato Dialogue Project: it offers the first collective study of the Philebus - a high point of philosophical ethics, containing some of Plato's most sophisticated discussions of human happiness. The contributors work through the text, discussing pleasure, knowledge, philosophical method, and the human good.
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    I—Plato’s Philebus and Some ‘Value of Knowledge’ Problems.Verity Harte - 2018 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 92 (1):27-48.
    In modern epistemology, one ‘value of knowledge’ problem concerns the question why knowledge should be valued more highly than mere true belief. Though this problem has a background in Plato, the present paper, focused on Philebus 55–9, is concerned with a different question: what questions might one ask about the value of knowledge, and what question does Plato ask here? The paper aims to articulate the kind of value Plato here attributes to ‘useless’ knowledge, knowledge pursued without practical object; (...)
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    The Argument of the Philebus.Joe McCoy - 2007 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (1):1-16.
    This essay explores Socrates’ argumentative strategy in the Philebus, which is a response to the view that pleasure is the good. Socrates leads his interlocutorsthrough a series of steps in order to demonstrate to them the “conditions and dispositions of soul” upon which hedonism rests. Socrates’ aim is not to refute the claim that pleasure is a good, but rather to show the dependence of the experience of pleasure on intellect and the other elements of the life of mind. (...)
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  42. Philebus and Epinomis. Plato - 1956 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 18 (3):492-493.
     
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    Philebus; and Epinomis.A. E. Taylor, Raymond Klibansky & Plato (eds.) - 1972 - Folkestone,: Dawsons.
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    Philebus and Epinomis.R. Hackforth - 1972 - New York,: Barnes & Noble. Edited by A. E. Taylor, Raymond Klibansky & Plato.
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    Plato. Philebus and Epinomis.Jason Xenakis - 1959 - Philosophy 34 (129):182-183.
  46. Fleeing the Divine: Plato's Rejection of the Ahedonic Ideal in the Philebus.Suzanne Obdrzalek - 2010 - In John Dillon & Brisson Luc (eds.), Plato's Philebus: Selected Papers From the Eighth Symposium Platonicum. pp. 209-214.
    Note: "Next to Godliness" (Apeiron) is an expanded version of this paper. -/- According to Plato's successors, assimilation to god (homoiosis theoi) was the end (telos) of the Platonic system. There is ample evidence to support this claim in dialogues ranging from the Symposium through the Timaeus. However, the Philebus poses a puzzle for this conception of the Platonic telos. On the one hand, Plato states that the gods are beings beyond pleasure while, on the other hand, he argues (...)
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    Plato. Philebus and Epinomis.Jason Xenakis - 1957 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 18 (3):419-420.
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    The Philebus of Plato.R. G. Bury.A. E. Taylor - 1898 - International Journal of Ethics 8 (4):511-516.
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    Plato: Philebus.W. Joseph Cummins - 1978 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 16 (2):221-222.
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    A Story of Corruption: False Pleasure and the Methodological Critique of Hedonism in Plato’s Philebus.John Proios - forthcoming - Ancient Philosophy.
    In Plato’s Philebus, Socrates’ second account of ‘false’ pleasure (41d-42c) outlines a form of illusion: pleasures that appear greater than they are. I argue that these pleasures are perceptual misrepresentations. I then show that they are the grounds for a methodological critique of hedonism. Socrates identifies hedonism as a judgment about the value of pleasure based on a perceptual misrepresentation of size, witnessed paradigmatically in the ‘greatest pleasures’.
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