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Studies in Presocratic Philosophy. Volume II: Eleatics and Pluralists by R. E. Allen; David J. Furley (review)Isis 68 470-471. 1977.
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Een redelijk pessimismeNexus 47. 2007.Dit essay van Alexander Nehamas is een waarschuwing aan hen, die de teloorgang van onze cultuur aantonen door de culturele uitingen die ons vandaag omringen te vergelijken met de meesterwerken uit het verleden. Dat is een scheve en oneerlijke vergelijking. Zo ontmoedigend is onze wereld niet, aldus de auteur. Jammerklachten over de teloorgang van de beschaving zijn al zo oud als de Griekse dichter Hesiodus en er is geen reden om aan te nemen dat de dingen in het algemeen nog slechter worden dan …Read more
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Rede en religie. Pleidooi voor het heidendomNexus 21. 1998.Nehamas geeft in zijn essay een kritische reactie op de religieuze wereldvisie, en houdt een pleidooi voor het heidendom. Het heidendom zou in tegenstelling tot het monotheïsme erkennen dat er veel manieren zijn waarop mensen hun leven kunnen bevestigen, en is volgens Nehamas een combinatie tussen tolerantie en kosmopolitisme.
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131Confusing 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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94Pity and Fear in the Rhetoric and the PoeticsIn David J. Furley & Alexander Nehamas (eds.), Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays, Princeton University Press. pp. 257-282. 2015.
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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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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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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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174Nietzsche, life as literatureHarvard University Press. 1985.Argues that Nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his work
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63Is Living an Art that Can be Taught?Journal of Philosophical Research 40 (Supplement): 81-91. 2015.Along with our inordinate emphasis on managing our lives on the basis of impartial principles and rules, we have lost the sense that some of the greatest human achievements are accomplished precisely by going beyond anything that existing rules and principles allow. Along with our fixation on the values of morality and politics, which apply to everyone on the basis of our similarities to one another, we have lost the sense that there are also values that depend on our differences and distinguish…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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47Ronald Hayman, "Nietzsche: A Critical Life" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 20 (1): 98. 1982.
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72Participation 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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