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18The Editors extend their sincere appreciation to the following persons who served as invited reviewers between May 1999 and April 2000 (review)Philosophy and Rhetoric 33 (4). 2000.
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13Review: The God of Abraham and the God of the Philosophers (review)Philosophy East and West 50 (1). 2000.
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28Deliberative Rhetoric and Ethical DeliberationPolis 30 (2): 189-209. 2013.Central to Aristotle’s Ethics is the virtue of phronēsis, a good condition of the rational part of the soul that determines the means to ends set by the ethical virtues. Central to the Rhetoric is the art of presenting persuasive deliberative arguments about how to secure the ends set by the audience and its constitution. What is the relation between the art and the virtue of deliberation? Rhetorical facility can be a deceptive facsimile of virtuous reasoning, but there can be more fruitful conn…Read more
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10Pluralism in theory and practice: Richard McKeon and American philosophy (edited book)Vanderbilt University Press. 2000.Pluralism in Theory and Practice not only brings McKeon to the attention of contemporary philosophers and students; it also puts his theories into practice. Some of the essays explicate aspects of McKeon's thought or situate him in the context of American intellectual and practical engagement. Others take the concerns he raised as starting points for inquiries into urgent contemporary problems, or, in some cases, for reexamining McKeon's work as fertile ground for shaping the direction of new in…Read more
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Machiavelli and the Politics of Rhetorical InventionClio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 14 (2). 1985.
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38Aristotle's Politics: Living Well and Living TogetherUniversity of Chicago Press. 2011.“Man is a political animal,” Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the _Politics_. In this novel reading of one of the foundational texts of political philosophy, Eugene Garver traces the surprising implications of Aristotle’s claim and explores the treatise’s relevance to ongoing political concerns. Often dismissed as overly grounded in Aristotle’s specific moment in time, in fact the _Politics_ challenges contemporary understandings of human action and allows us to better see ourselves today…Read more
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27The Justice of Politics iii and the Incompleteness of the NormativeAncient Philosophy 18 (2): 381-416. 1998.
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37Aristotle and the Will to PowerPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 13 (2): 74-83. 2006.Once we get past moral outrage, Aristotle’s notorious discussion of slavery has several ever more disquieting challenges to modern thinking. Not only are slaves in a certain sense “natural,” but so is the master/slave relationship and so is mastery. While he thinks that living the right kind of state and having the right kind of character is a permanent solution to problems of slavishness, problems of mastery, of the despotic cast of mind, are permanent political problems, since the desire to do…Read more
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23For the Sake of Argument: Practical Reasoning, Character, and the Ethics of BeliefUniversity of Chicago Press. 2004.What role should it play? And are claims to rationality liberating or oppressive? For the Sake of Argument addresses questions such as these to consider the relationship between thought and character.
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48Spinoza's "Ethics"Philosophy and Theology 24 (2): 155-190. 2012.The Preface to Part 4 of Spinoza’s Ethics claims that we all desire to formulate a model of human nature. I show how that model serves the same function in ethics as the creed or articles of faith do in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, the function of allowing the imagination to provide a simularcrrum of rationality for finite, practical human beings.
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45Comments on `Rhetorical Analysis Within a Pragma-Dialectical FrameworkArgumentation 14 (3): 307-314. 2000.
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15Nathan Rotenstreich, "Philosophy, History, and Politics: Studies in Contemporary English Philosophy of History" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 17 (3): 367. 1979.
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63Why Can’t We All Just Get Along: The Reasonable vs. the Rational According to SpinozaPolitical Theory 38 (6): 838-858. 2010.Spinoza presents a picture of the good human life in which being rational and being reasonable or sociable are mutually supporting: the philosopher makes the best citizen, and citizenship is the best route to philosophy and adequate ideas. Crucial to this mutual implication are the roles of religion and politics in promoting obedience. It is through obedience that people can become "of one mind and one body" in the absence of adequate ideas, through the presence of shared empowering imaginations…Read more
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37Aristotle's natural slaves: IncompleteJournal of the History of Philosophy 32 (2): 173-195. 1994.
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60Essentially Contested Concepts: The Ethics and Tactics of ArgumentPhilosophy and Rhetoric 23 (4). 1990.
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Pluralism in Theory and Practice: Richard McKeon and American PhilosophyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 37 (3): 436-441. 2001.
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9Colloquium 5Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 10 (1): 171-200. 1994.
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1Making discourse ethical: The lessons of Aristotle's Rhetoric'Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 5 73-96. 1989.
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