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Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments Many students and friends, in Toronto, Rome, and elsewhere, have encouraged me—both in classes and without—to attempt this book, and I thank them all for their help. Douglas Hedley read a more primitive version and suggested a number of significant improvements , as have other talkers and readers, not least from the Catholic University of America Press. Jim Kruggel, the philosophy editor there, has been exceptionally helpful at all stages of the production of a rather unorthodox offering. Anna Rist, as usual, corrected many errors of content and infelicities of style and worked hard to get me to write in a way that would be helpful to the kind of readers I hoped might profit from a wide-ranging, if general and unprofessional book on Plato’s views—perhaps important now as almost never before—on the possibility of ethics. Cambridge, U.K., February 2011 realism Plato’s moral ...