Professor

John M. Cooper

(
1939
2022
)
Princeton University
;
Princeton, NJ
Philosopher; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Philosophy
Elected
2001
A major scholar of ancient philosophy, especially moral philosophy and moral psychology. He has written with great philosophical acumen and philological erudition on major and minor figures from Socrates to Plotinus. His edition of all of Plato's works in new translations will be a standard for the foreseeable future.
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