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28Informed Consent, Proxy Consent, and Catholic Bioethics: For the Good of the Subject by Grzegorz Mazur (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 13 (2): 374-377. 2013.
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577Aristotle on Mathematical and Eidetic NumberHermathena 190 29-51. 2011.The article examines Greek philosopher Aristotle's understanding of mathematical numbers as pluralities of discreet units and the relations of unity and multiplicity. Topics discussed include Aristotle's view that a mathematical number has determinate properties, a contrast between Aristotle and French philosopher René Descartes in terms of their understanding of number and Aristotle's description of ways to understand eidetic numbers
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120Contemplative Friendship in Nicomachean EthicsReview of Metaphysics 65 (4): 765-794. 2012.In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle’s two forms of human happiness correspond to two forms of human virtue (moral and intellectual) and, I argue, to two forms of virtuous friendship (active and contemplative). I propose that the most properly human form of happiness is achieved in contemplative friendship. This friendship is a genuinely contemplative approximation of divine life and still a specifically human life consisting in discursivespeech with others. Contemplative friends wish the good to on…Read more
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46Medical Ethics: Sources of Catholic Teachings, 4th edition edited by Kevin D. O’Rourke, OP, and Philip J. Boyle (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 12 (2): 366-369. 2012.
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49Friendship and Teaching Philosophy in Nicomachean Ethics IX.1Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 87 271-283. 2013.In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle discusses the relation between teachers and students during his treatment of “non-uniform friends.” These friends exchange goods differing in kind . Such friendships depend on the needs of the friends, and we are invited to ask whether some need induces a philosopher to teach a not-yet-philosophical student. In this paper I argue that the philosophical teacher does not approach his pupil out of need nor as he would approach a contemplative friend who is an equal.…Read more
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25Parental Love and Prenatal DiagnosisThe National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 1 (4): 519-526. 2001.
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47Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (2): 411-412. 2000.
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