What Aristotle Learned from Plato about Justice and Laws
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6108152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mikyoung Lee (0000-0001-7219-659X, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author), Mi-Kyoung Lee (0000-0002-6654-4452, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO USA) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 535-556 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polis The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-257X • E-ISSN: 2051-2996 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/20512996-12340349 |
| OpenAlex | W3201015318 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In this paper I consider Aristotle’s solutions to two questions about justice and the laws: why think that obeying the law is just? And why think that doing what is just will promote one’s happiness? I analyze Aristotle’s solutions to these two problems in terms of four claims concerning the laws that come from Plato and underwrite Aristotle’s optimism about the potential for politikê epistêmê to issue in laws which are objectively correct
Economic Justice · Epistemology · Happiness · Law and economics · Optimism · Political science · Sociology · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |