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214Aristotle on the Virtues of Slaves and WomenOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 25 213-31. 2003.
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72The Virtue Of God In AristotlePhilosophy and Theology 16 (1): 3-23. 2004.The aim of this paper is to show that for Aristotle god is, and is not, virtuous. I consider first the arguments of the EN to show that the gods do not have virtue---beginning with an account of the divisions of the faculties of soul, and of the virtues that belong to those divisions. These arguments suggest that nous is a divine virtue, and so in the second section I consider nous, as a faculty of soul and as a virtue, and examine the differences between nous as a human virtue, and nous as a vi…Read more
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100Sexual Difference in Aristotle's Politics and His BiologyClassical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 102 (3): 215-231. 2009.
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49The Female in Aristotle's Biology: Reason or RationalizationAmerican Journal of Philology 126 (3): 458-460. 2005.
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92Marinella and her interlocutors: hot blood, hot words, hot deedsPhilosophical Studies 174 (10): 2525-2537. 2017.In the treatise called La nobiltà et l’eccellenza delle donne co’ diffetti et mancamenti de gli uomini Lucrezia Marinella claims that women are superior to men. She argues that men are excessively hot, and that heat in a high degree is detrimental to the intellectual and moral capacities of a person. The aim of this paper is to set out Marinella’s views on temperature differences in the bodies of men and women and the effects of bodily constitution on the capacities necessary for political delib…Read more
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