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59Aristotle on Moral Responsibility Susan Sauvé Meyer Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, xii + 210 pp., $49.95 (review)Dialogue 36 (3): 636-. 1997.
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2Terry Penner and Richard Kraut, eds., Nature, Knowledge and Virtue: Essays in Memory of Joan Kung Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 11 (5): 353-355. 1991.
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51Character and Explanation in Aristotle's Ethics and PoeticsDialogue 29 (1): 79-. 1990.Aristotle discusses character in four contexts: ethics, poetic theory, the study of rhetoric and zoology. What he means by character is different in each of these cases, but not radically different. He always uses it as a device to explain actions or behavioural patterns: in animals, in people, and in fictional people. The similarities between the character exhibited by different species, moral character, and tragic character have gone unexamined. As a result, the notion of character as explanat…Read more
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25Aristotle (review)Review of Metaphysics 37 (2): 391-392. 1983.Aristotle is presented, in this introduction to his work, as a scientist and a philosopher of science. This view is developed through the structure of the book, which emphasizes Aristotle's methodological concerns as a scientist, and through the no-nonsense interpretation of Aristotle's thought that it offers. Barnes particularly wants to impress on the reader the range of Aristotle's interests. He stresses that it is the empirical foundation of almost all the treatises that gives unity to their…Read more
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16The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.One of the most influential works in the history of political theory, Aristotle's Politics is a treatise in practical philosophy, intended to inform legislators and to create the conditions for virtuous and self-sufficient lives for the citizens of a state. In this Companion, distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on the work and its themes. After an opening exploration of the relation between Aristotle's ethics and his politics, the central chapters follow the sequence of the eight books…Read more
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217How to Distinguish Aristotle's VirtuesPhronesis 47 (2): 101-126. 2002.This paper considers the distinctions Aristotle draws (1) between the intellectual virtue of "phronêsis" and the moral virtues and (2) among the moral virtues, in light of his commitment to the reciprocity of the virtues. I argue that Aristotle takes the intellectual virtues to be numerically distinct hexeis from the moral virtues. By contrast, I argue, he treats the moral virtues as numerically one hexis, although he allows that they are many hexeis 'in being'. The paper has three parts. In the…Read more
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215Aristotle on the Virtues of Slaves and WomenOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 25 213-31. 2003.
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