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132Confusing Universals and Particulars In Plato’s Early DialoguesReview of Metaphysics 29 (2). 1975.It is said that when Socrates is made to ask questions like "What is the pious and what the impious?", "What is courage?", or "What is the beautiful?", he is asking for the definition of a universal. For the "average" Greek of his time, however, this is a radically new question about a radically new sort of object, and Socrates’ interlocutors do not understand it. They usually answer it as if it were a different, if related, question: they tend to provide concrete instances of the universal in q…Read more
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44Nietzsche, Psychology, and First PhilosophyCommon Knowledge 18 (2): 361-362. 2012.Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. His highly unusual style and insistence on what remains hidden or unsaid in his writing make pinning him to a particular position tricky. Nonetheless, certain readings of his work have become standard and influential. In this major new interpretation of Nietzsche’s work, Robert B. Pippin challenges various traditional views of Nietzsche, taking him at his word when he says that his writing can best be underst…Read more
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20The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art and The State of the Art by Arthur C. Danto (review)Journal of Philosophy 85 (4): 214-219. 1988.
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50Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2015.In the field of philosophy, Plato's view of rhetoric as a potentially treacherous craft has long overshadowed Aristotle's view, which focuses on rhetoric as an independent discipline that relates in complex ways to dialectic and logic and to ethics and moral psychology. This volume, composed of essays by internationally renowned philosophers and classicists, provides the first extensive examination of Aristotle's Rhetoric and its subject matter in many years. One aim is to locate both Aristotle'…Read more
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144. Nietzsche And “Hitler”In Robert S. Wistrich & Jacob Golomb (eds.), Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?: On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 90-106. 2009.
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25The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections From Plato to FoucaultUniversity of California Press. 1998.For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an "art of living." This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of all stripes kept returning to Socrates as a model for living. The idea of philosophy as an art of living has survived in the works of such major modern authors as Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Each of these writers has used philosophical dis…Read more
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68Reply to Korsmeyer and GautBritish Journal of Aesthetics 50 (2): 205-207. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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