Publication: Ethical corruption and non-rational belief in Republic Books 8 to 10
| dc.contributor.coauthor | Storey, Damien (57194323667) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-12-31T08:20:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-12-31 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Republic Book 10’s account of corruption–of how a person declines from a better to a worse state of character–is rarely compared with the account of corruption in Books 8 and 9. This paper argues that Plato intended Book 10 to shed light on the earlier discussion. Non-rational beliefs play a prominent role in Books 8 and 9’s account of corruption, but within metaphors that are indecipherable without drawing on the more detailed and literal account developed in Book 10, which examines the corruption of a certain ‘decent’ (epieikēs) character. I offer an account of the cognitive side of corruption across all three books, guided by the task of explaining the puzzling attributions of non-rational belief in Books 8 and 9. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. | |
| dc.description.fulltext | Yes | |
| dc.description.harvestedfrom | Manual | |
| dc.description.indexedby | Scopus | |
| dc.description.publisherscope | International | |
| dc.description.readpublish | N/A | |
| dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEu | N/A | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09608788.2025.2553299 | |
| dc.identifier.embargo | No | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0960-8788 | |
| dc.identifier.quartile | N/A | |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-105017380387 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2025.2553299 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/31560 | |
| dc.keywords | belief | |
| dc.keywords | decent character | |
| dc.keywords | Plato | |
| dc.keywords | psychology | |
| dc.keywords | Republic | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Routledge | |
| dc.relation.affiliation | Koç University | |
| dc.relation.collection | Koç University Institutional Repository | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | British Journal for the History of Philosophy | |
| dc.relation.openaccess | Yes | |
| dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Ethical corruption and non-rational belief in Republic Books 8 to 10 | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |