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Single Idea 17947

[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness ]

Full Idea

Plato came to the conclusion that virtue and happiness consist in the life of philosophy itself.

Gist of Idea

Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life

Source

report of Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Alexander Nehamas - Eristic,Antilogic,Sophistic,Dialectic p.117

Book Ref

Nehamas,Alexander: 'Virtues of Authenticity' [Princeton 1999], p.117