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27Highest GoodIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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413 The Sophists and SocratesIn D. N. Sedley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 73. 2003.
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88Aristotle's Elusive Summum BonumSocial Philosophy and Policy 16 (1): 233-251. 1999.The philosophy of Aristotle remains a beacon of our culture. But no part of Aristotle's work is more alive and compelling today than his contribution to ethics and political science — nor more relevant to the subject of the present volume. Political science, in his view, begins with ethics, and the primary task of ethics is to elucidate human flourishing. Aristotle brings to this topic a mind unsurpassed in the depth, keenness, and comprehensiveness of its probing
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65Que Fait le premier moteur d'aristote? (Sur la théologie du livre lambda de la « métaphysique »)Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 183 (2). 1993.
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3Nicomachean Ethics VII, 1150b29-1151b22: Akrasia, enkrateia, and some look-alikesIn Carlo Natali (ed.), Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book Vii Symposium Aristotelicum, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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46Necessity and Deliberation: An Argument from De Interpretatione 9Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (2). 1987.In De Interpretatione 9 Aristotle considers the proposition that everything that is or comes to be, is or comes to be of necessity. From the supposition that this is so, he draws the following consequence: ‘[In that case] there would be no need to deliberate or take trouble, [saying] that if we do this there will be so and so, and if we do not do this there will not be so and so’. Finding this result absurd, he rejects the supposition and concludes that some events or states of affairs are conti…Read more
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147From necessity to fate: A fallacyThe Journal of Ethics 5 (1): 21-37. 2001.Though clearly fallacious, the inference from determinism to fatalism (the ``Lazy Argument'''') has appealed to such minds as Aristotle and his disciple, Alexander of Aphrodisias. It is argued here (1) that determinism does entail a rather similar position, dubbed ``futilism''''; and (2) that distinctively Aristotelian determinism entails fatalism for any event to which it applies. The concept of ``fate'''' is examined along the way.
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52Aristotle’s Philosophy of Action (review)International Studies in Philosophy 20 (1): 68-70. 1988.
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205The Contents of the ReceptacleModern Schoolman 80 (3): 171-190. 2003.The Receptacle of the title is, of course, the ‘Receptacle of all becoming’ in Plato’s Timaeus. Plato likens it to a ‘nurse’, and even calls it a ‘mother’. He speaks of it as that in which its contents come to be, only in their turn to disappear from it. He compares it to a mass of gold which someone incessantly remoulds into different shape. He declares it completely unchanging: ‘it does not depart from its own character in any way'. What is its character? It is the character of possessing and …Read more
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48Agency and Determinism in A Metaphysics for FreedomInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 56 (6): 571-582. 2013.The paper spells out agency in a manner sympathetic to the approach in Helen Steward’s A Metaphysics for Freedom ; argues that agency so construed is compatible with determinism; then argues that this is a costly victory for compatibilism.
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142I—Sarah Broadie: Plato's Intelligible World?Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78 (1): 65-80. 2004.
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3Nature, change, and agency in Aristotle's Physics: a philosophical studyOxford University Press. 1982.A powerful and appealing explanatory scheme which succeeds on the whole in drawing together a great many seemingly disparate elements in the Physics' into a neat unitary structure.' Canadian Philosophical Reviews.
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3Interpreting Aristotle's DirectionsIn Jyl Gentzler (ed.), Method in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 291--306. 1997.
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45Alternative World-HistoriesPhilosophical Papers 31 (2): 117-143. 2002.Abstract We act so as to make things better than they would have been but for the action; we are horrified by an uncontrollable catastrophe because it made things so much worse than they would have been without it. Such attitudes are reasonable only if it is reasonable to make the associated counterfactual conditional judgments. But making such judgments cannot be reasonable if one holds both (1) that this world is absolutely and uniquely actual (?absolute actualism?), and (2) that everything is…Read more
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Beginnings and Ends of Aristotelian DeliberationIn Jyl Gentzler (ed.), Method in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University Press Uk. 1997.
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109Theological sidelights from Plato's TimaeusAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 82 (1): 1-17. 2008.Plato's account of the making of the world by a supreme divinity has often been felt to foreshadow the natural theology associated with orthodox western religion. This paper examines some significant ways (having more than merely antiquarian interest, it is hoped) in which the Timaeus scheme differs from more familiar orthodoxy.
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33'Actual Instead'Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 113 (1pt1): 1-19. 2013.It is argued that acceptance of determinism sits badly with the way we use counterfactual conditionals when considering gains and losses in light of how things would have been if such-and-such had or had not happened; it is further suggested that one type of indeterminism runs into the same difficulty; also that the difficulty may escape notice through failure to distinguish different uses of counterfactuals.
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19The Ancient GreeksIn Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock & Peter Menzies (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Causation, Oxford University Press. 2009.There are various motives for refining the notion of cause. Aristotle's was an interest in providing the most informative and illuminating method of explaining the central natural phenomena of his universe. A different sort of motive is created by problems of free will and responsibility, of which readers may have been reminded by the reference to indeterminism. The thought that our free and responsible behaviour is caused by factors over which we have no control has often seemed impossible to a…Read more
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Aporia 8In Michel Crubellier & André Laks (eds.), Aristotle's Metaphysics Beta Symposium Aristotelicum, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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3On the Idea of the Summum BonumIn Christopher Gill (ed.), Virtue, norms, and objectivity: issues in ancient and modern ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 41-58. 2005.
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115Nature and Divinity in Plato's TimaeusCambridge University Press. 2011.Plato's Timaeus is one of the most influential and challenging works of ancient philosophy to have come down to us. Sarah Broadie's rich and compelling study proposes new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus, including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. Broadie shows how Plato deploys the mythic themes of the Timaeus to convey fundamental philosophical insights and examines the profoundly differing methods of int…Read more
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28Finding the Mean, Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy (review)International Studies in Philosophy 25 (3): 145-146. 1993.
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Why no Platonistic Ideas of artefacts?In Dominic Scott (ed.), Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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71Another problem of akrasiaInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (2). 1994.No abstract
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2The Good, the Noble and the Theoretical in the Eudemian EthicsIn John Cottingham & Peter Hacker (eds.), Mind, Method, and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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1A Contemporary Look at Aristotle's Changing NowIn Ricardo Salles (ed.), Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought: Themes From the Work of Richard Sorabji, Clarendon Press. pp. 81-93. 2005.
Sarah Broadie
(1941 - 2021)
St Andrews, FIfe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland