Douglas Cairns (FRSE, FBA, MAE) is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993), Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (2010) and Sophocles: Antigone (2016). His most recent edited volumes include A Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity (2019), Emotions through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium (with M. Hinterberger, A. Pizzone and M. Zaccarini, 2022), Contempt, Ancient and Modern (2023), and In the Mind, in the Body, in the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece (with C. Virág, 2024). Fritz-Gregor Herrmann is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Wales, Swansea. Terry Penner is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Preface; Introduction; 1. What is the Form of the Good the Form of?: A Question about the Plot of the Republic; Terry Penner; 2. Glaucon's Challenge, Rational Egoism and Ordinary Morality; Lesley Brown; 3. Thrasymachean Rulers, Altruistic Rulers and Socratic Rulers; Antonio Chu; 4. Neutralism in Book 1 of the Republic; George Rudebusch; 5. The Good, Advantage, Happiness, and the Form of the Good: How Continuous with Socratic Ethics is Platonic Ethics?; Terry Penner; 6. The Form of the Good and the Good in Plato's Republic; Christopher Rowe; 7. Flourishing: The Central Concept of Practical Thought; Richard Kraut; 8. Is Plato's Conception of the Form of the Good Contradictory?; Gerhard Seel; 9. The Good, Essences and Relations; Andrew Mason; 10. The Idea of the Good and the Other Forms in Plato's Republic; Fritz-Gregor Herrmann; 11. The Aporia in the Charmides about Reflexive Knowledge and the Contribution to its Solution in the Sun-Analogy of the Republic; Vasilis Politis; 12. The Good and Mathematics; Christopher Gill; 13. The Good and Order: Does the Republic Display an Analogy Between a Science of Ethics and Mathematics?; Rachana Kamtekar; 14. Inquiry and Justification in the Search for the Highest Good in Plato and Aristotle; Mariana Anagnostopoulos; 15. The Carpenter and the Good; Rachel Barney; 16. Conversion or Conversation?: A Note on Plato's Philosophical Methods; Timothy Chappell; Index.

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