Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-174) and index.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapters Overview
Chapter One: Some Key Concepts in Ancient Virtue Ethics.
1. Plato and Aristotle?s Virtue Ethics
2. Agent Focussed and Agent Based Virtue Ethics
3. What is Virtue Jurisprudence?
Chapter Two: Obedience and Persuading the Laws in the Crito
1. Introduction
2. The incompatibility problem introduced.
3. Unconditional Obedience.
4. Agreement.
5. The Role of the Laws: the Parent Analogy.
6. The Crito, the Apology, and Civil Disobedience.
Chapter Three: Promoting and Preserving Virtue in the Menexenus
1. Introduction.
2. The relevance of Plato?s proposal to contemporary debates.
3. Alternative Accounts: Slote and the Republic.
4. The Argument in the Menexenus.
5. Why the Virtue Politics Account is not Overly Paternalistic.
Chapter Four: Virtue as Mental Health in the Gorgias and Other Dialogues.
1. The Model of Psychic Health in Plato.
2. How the model works: elenchos as therapy.
3. Virtue and the situationists.
4. Community service for offenders as elenctic therapy: a case study.
Chapter Five: Paternalism in the Republic.
1. A problem and a solution?
2. Paternalism in the Republic.
3. Educating the philosopher kings and the rest.
4. Paternalism in education.
5. Conclusion.
Chapter Six: The Statesman and Equity.
1. Introduction.
2. Two attitudes to the laws in the Statesman.
3. The anti-democratic reading of the second claim.
4. Equity.
5. An objection.
6. Making way for the Laws.
Chapter Seven: The Laws: Persuading the citizens.
1. Introduction.
2. Preambles.
3. The two audiences for the preambles.
4. Are the preambles paternalistic?
5. Persuading the Laws.
Chapter Eight: Towards virtue-promoting Democratic Institutions.
1. A flourishing environment: from laws to institutions.
2. Can democratic institutions be wisdom promoting?
3. Can wisdom-promoting laws be produced democratically?
4. Two examples: racism and sexism.
Index