Shaftesbury

Ken Binmore ()

Chapter Chapter 2 in Early Utilitarians, 2021, pp 3-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Praising those who put the public good before their own personal interests doubt-less goes back into prehistoric times, but the public good in such commendations is never de_ned in the precise way that modern utilitarians think essential. A lec- ture that Plato gave at the Academy he founded in ancient Athens is perhaps the best exemplar of the ancient attitude. The lecture apparently caused consternation among the students for its claim that the Good is to be found among the abstract ideals of which Plato thought the world of our senses is a mere shadow, but it eventually became the philosophical basis of early Christian theology.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74583-7_2

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