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73Participation and Predication in Plato's Later ThoughtReview of Metaphysics 36 (2). 1982.ONE of the central characteristics of Plato's later metaphysics is his view that Forms can participate in other Forms. At least part of what the Sophist demonstrates is that though not every Form participates in every other, every Form participates in some Forms, and that there are some Forms in which all Forms participate. This paper considers some of the reasons for this development, and some of the issues raised by it.
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93Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of ArtPrinceton University Press. 2007.Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, "aesthetic pleasure." In Only a Promise of Happiness, Alexander Nehamas reclaims beauty from its critics. He seeks to restore its place in art, to reestablish the connection…Read more
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10Nietzsche: Writings From the Early Notebooks (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2009.Nietzsche's unpublished notes are extraordinary in both volume and interest, and indispensable to a full understanding of his lifelong engagement with the fundamental questions of philosophy. This volume includes an extensive selection of the notes he kept during the early years of his career. They address the philosophy of Schopenhauer, the nature of tragedy, the relationship of language to music, the importance of Classical Greek culture for modern life, and the value of the unfettered pursuit…Read more
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29Review: The Return of the Beautiful: Morality, Pleasure, and the Value of Uncertainty (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (4). 2000.
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