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12Commentary on FurthProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 2 (1): 268-273. 1986.
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14Metasubstance: Critical notice of Frede-Patzig and FurthPhilosophical Review 100 (4): 607-639. 1991.
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15The nicomachean account of philiaIn Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 276--304. 2006.The prelims comprise: Preliminary Note Eudaimonism and Rational Egoism NE VIII.1: Nicomachean Context and Platonic Background NE VIII.2: Aristotle's Preliminary Account NE VIII.3–4: Three Forms of Philia? NE IX.4–6: Ta Philika versus the Defining Features of Philia Digression on Dia: Efficient Causal, Final Causal, or Both? NE IX.7 (VIII.8 and 12): Benefactors, Poets, and Parents Ethnocentrism and Aristotle's Ethocentric Ideal NE IX.9: The Lysis Puzzle Revisited Contemplative (versus Engaged) Pl…Read more
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7Living BodiesIn Martha Craven Nussbaum & Amélie Rorty (eds.), Essays on Aristotle's De anima, Oxford University Press. pp. 75-91. 1995 [1992].
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27Eudaimonia, external results, and choosing virtuous actions for themselvesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2): 270-290. 2002.Aristotle's requirement that virtuous actions be chosen for themselves is typically interpreted, in Kantian terms, as taking virtuous action to have intrinsic rather than consequentialist value. This raises problems about how to reconcile Aristotle's requirement with (a) the fact that virtuous actions typically aim at ends beyond themselves (usually benefits to others); and (b) Aristotle's apparent requirement that everything (including virtuous action) be chosen for the sake of eudaimonia. I of…Read more
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396Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1996.This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so, it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant re-assessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics. The contributors include internationally recognised interpreters of ancient and modern ethics. Four pairs of essays compare and contrast Aristotle and Kant on deliberation and mo…Read more
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83"Personal Identity: The Non-Branching Form of" What MattersIn Richard M. Gale (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, Wiley-blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains sections titled: I II III IV.
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25First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal IdentityOxford University Press USA. 2016.In her essay collection First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity, well-known scholar of ancient philosophy Jennifer Whiting gathers her previously published essays taking Aristotle's theories on friendship as a springboard to engage with contemporary philosophical work on personal identity and moral psychology. Whiting examines three themes throughout the collection, the first being psychic contingency, or the belief that the psychological structures characteri…Read more
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