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155Aristotle and Beyond: Essays on Metaphysics and EthicsCambridge University Press. 2007.Written over a period of thirty-five years, these essays explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human soul, the idea of the highest good and the human significance of leisure. While most of the essays take as their starting-point some theme in Ancient Greek philosophy, they are meant not as exegesis but as distinctive and independent contributions to live philosophizing. Written with clarity, precision without technicality, and p…Read more
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69On What Would Have Happened Otherwise: A Problem for DeterminismReview of Metaphysics 39 (3). 1986.THIS PAPER is concerned with an ancient rebuttal of determinism, possibly the oldest in our Western tradition. It runs as follows: if whatever happens happens of necessity, there is no point at all in deliberating; but the consequent is intolerable, so the antecedent must be rejected. This objection is put forward by Aristotle, and it reappears in elaborated forms in later works of antiquity. But for the most part, philosophers on both sides of the determinist debate have remained unimpressed by…Read more
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94Noῦs and Nature in De Anima IIIProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 12 (1): 163-176. 1996.
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GC I 4: Distinguishing AlterationIn Frans de Haas & Jaap Mansfeld (eds.), Aristotle's on Generation and Corruption I Book 1: Symposium Aristotelicum, Clarendon Press. 2004.
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Symposium: Aristotle's Metaphysics in Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern DivisionJournal of Philosophy 84 (11): 666-681. 1987.
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8The Possibilities of Being and Not-Being in De caelo 1.11-12In A. C. Bowen & C. Wildberg (eds.), New Perspectives on Aristotle’s de Caelo, Brill. pp. 1--29. 2009.
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1Aristotle's Epistemic Progress: Terence Irwin, Aristotle's First PrinciplesOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 11 243-257. 1993.
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203Practical Truth in AristotleAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2): 281-298. 2016.An interpretation is offered of the Aristotelian concept of “practical truth” in the wake of Anscombe’s very interesting exegesis. Her own interpretation is considered and its merits noted, but a question is raised as to its plausibility as an account of what Aristotle himself intended in speaking of “truth that is practical”.
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3Nicomachean ethics VII. 8-9 (1151b22) : akrasia, enkrateia, and look-alikesIn Carlo Natali (ed.), Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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24Colloquium 2: Mind, Soul and Movement in Plato and Aristotle1Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 19 (1): 19-33. 2004.
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771Ethics with AristotleOxford University Press. 1991.In this incisive study Sarah Broadie gives an argued account of the main topics of Aristotle's ethics: eudaimonia, virtue, voluntary agency, practical reason, akrasia, pleasure, and the ethical status of theoria. She explores the sense of "eudaimonia," probes Aristotle's division of the soul and its virtues, and traces the ambiguities in "voluntary." Fresh light is shed on his comparison of practical wisdom with other kinds of knowledge, and a realistic account is developed of Aristototelian del…Read more
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116Aristotelian PietyPhronesis 48 (1): 54-70. 2003.Aristotle seems to omit discussing the virtue piety. Such an omission should surprise us. Piety is not covertly dealt with under the more general heading of justice, nor under that of philia. But piety does make a veiled appearance at NE X.8, 1179a22-32. Many interpreters have refused to take this passage seriously, but this is shown to be a mistake
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61Aristotle and contemporary ethicsIn Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 342--361. 2006.The prelims comprise: Flourishing Ethical Epistemology, Ethical Realism Deciding What is Right Systematizing the Principles of Quotidian Conduct? One Neglected Aristotelian Theme Notes Reference Further reading.
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60Passage and possibility: a study of Aristotle's modal conceptsOxford University Press. 1982.Aristotle connects modality and time in ways strange and perplexing to modern readers. In this book the author proposes a new solution to this exegetical problem. Although primarily expository, this work explores topics of central concern for current investigations into causality, time, and change.
Sarah Broadie
(1941 - 2021)
St Andrews, FIfe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland