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Rachana Kamtekar

Disciplines:
philosophy
ancient philosophy
plato
ethics/virtue ethics
higher education/cornell/arizona

Summary

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.

Core Contribution

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.

Notable Works & Achievements

Plato's Moral Psychology

Historical Influences

Plato

Intellectual Lineage

Cornell then Arizona

Contemporaries & Peers

Ferrari Nussbaum

Minds Influenced

Plato scholarship Virtue ethics Jonathan Bi

Intellectual Posterity

Plato's Moral Psychology

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