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61What Did Socrates Teach and to Whom Did He Teach It?Review of Metaphysics 46 (2). 1992.A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, ancient and modern alike, have always found in Socrates what seemed to them a suspicious, if not actually repugnant, aspect. This aspect, to put the point first in crude terms, is his devotion to philosophy, which presupposes an apparently unshakable faith in reason, in the power of understanding to secure goodness, and in the power of goodness to provide us with happiness.
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57The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to FoucaultJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57 (4): 473-475. 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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55Perspectivism and Falsification: A Reply to Maudemarie ClarkJournal of Nietzsche Studies 49 (2): 214-220. 2018.In this reply, I defend my views on Nietzsche's “falsification thesis” and his perspectivism against Maudemarie Clark's recent criticisms, which appeared in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.1. I begin by amplifying my interpretation of Gay Science 110 and 111, which, I argue, show that the falsification thesis is absent from The Gay Science. I then turn to perspectivism and argue that, contrary to Clark's claims, perspectivism never involves the falsification of the views to which it applies.…Read more
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55A Passion for Philosophy: Robert Solomon on Emotion, Reason and the Place of Philosophical ThoughtThe European Legacy 10 (7): 741-743. 2005.No abstract
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54‘Only in the contemplation of beauty is human life worth living’ Plato, Symposium 211dEuropean Journal of Philosophy 15 (1): 1-18. 2007.
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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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50Of Poets and Thinkers: A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature and the Rebuilding of the WorldThe European Legacy 14 (5): 519-534. 2009.No abstract
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47Ronald Hayman, "Nietzsche: A Critical Life" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 20 (1): 98. 1982.
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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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36Plato on imitation and poetry in republic 10In J. M. E. Moravcsik & Philip Temko (eds.), Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts, Rowman & Littlefield. 1982.
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33"Getting Used to Not Getting Used to It": Nietzsche in The Magic MountainPhilosophy and Literature 5 (1): 73-90. 1981.
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31The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to FoucaultPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 423. 2000.From his own day to the present Socrates has presented a challenge to philosophers and commentators, a challenge at once of a puzzle to be solved and of an ideal to be continually reshaped in response to the demands of shifting historical perspectives. Alexander Nehamas’s intriguing book combines discussion of this ongoing process, specifically of responses to Socrates by Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, with exemplification of it via his own response to Socrates. The focus of these responses…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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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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25Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960Common Knowledge 15 (2): 216-216. 2009.
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25La théorie platonicienne de La Doxa (review)International Studies in Philosophy 16 (3): 91-93. 1984.
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24The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and Its LimitsPhilosophical Review 90 (1): 122. 1981.
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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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