Rachana Kamtekar

American philosopher who specializes in Plato and ancient philosophy — particularly Plato's ethics and psychology — and whose work on the relationship between character and virtue in Plato has contributed to the virtue ethics revival.

Argues that Plato's ethics is better understood as a virtue ethics than as a moral rationalism — character and the cultivation of good dispositions are central, not just rational knowledge of the good — connecting Plato more closely to Aristotle on practical ethics.