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    Context -- Overview of themes -- Reading the text -- Reception and influence.
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    Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 57 (2): 430-432. 2003.
    Pangle’s thesis is that Aristotle’s account of friendship in Nicomachean Ethics 8 and 9 addresses multiple audiences. For his ostensible audience, statesmen and other men of action, Aristotle paints an enticing picture of friendship that is based on moral virtue and issues in acts of benevolence. However, he embeds within this analysis subtle “tensions” designed to signal to thoughtful readers the limits of moral virtue and so to provoke them to pursue a philosophical life as well as to provide …Read more
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    Heraclitus and the Possibility of Metaphysics
    Review of Metaphysics 70 (3). 2017.
    Heraclitus is famous for affirming contradictions, though most readers do not regard the content of his fragments as contradictory. Examining fragments 1 and 50, this article argues that Heraclitus aims to assert a special class of contradictions, the intrinsic conflict between the content of any universal metaphysical claim and the assertion or reception of that claim. Such contradictions undermine the possibility of metaphysics as a science that knows all things. Second, the article argues tha…Read more
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    Letter to the Editor
    Phronesis 40 (1): 116-117. 1995.
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    Metaphysics Z 12 and H 6
    Ancient Philosophy 4 (2): 146-159. 1984.
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    Colloquium 3: Metaphysics I and the Difference it Makes1
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 22 (1): 69-110. 2007.
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    Klein and Cassirer
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (2): 194-217. 2015.
    ABSTRACT In Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, Jacob Klein contrasts ancient Greek philosophy's direct engagement with things through arithmetic with the ancient science of numeric calculation, logistic. By chronicling the later development of logistic, by means of increasing symbolization, ultimately into algebra, he argues that logistic has come to displace arithmetic and, thereby, to submerge the ontological issues at the center of Greek thought. This article argues, first,…Read more
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    Spinoza on the Political Value of Freedom of Religion
    The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 2 37-44. 2006.
    The last chapter of Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (TTP) is a brief for freedom of religion. In our enthusiasm for Spinoza's conclusion it is easy to overlook the blatant contradiction between this thesis and the central claim of the immediately preceding chapter that "right over matters of religion is vested entirely in the sovereign." There Spinoza emphasizes the necessity that there be but one sovereign in the state and the threat that autonomous religious authorities would pose to …Read more
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    Aristotle's Political Virtues
    The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 3 154-161. 1998.
    This paper argues that Aristotle conceives happiness not primarily as an exercise of virtue in private or with friends, but as the exercise of virtue in governing an ideal state. The best states are knit together so tightly that the interests of one person are the same as the interests of all. Hence, a person who acts for his or her own good must also act for the good of all fellow citizens. It follows that discussions of Aristotle’s altruism and egoism are misconceived.
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    Aristotle on the Convertibility of One and Being
    Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 259-264. 1988.
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    Hegel and the Problem of the Differentia
    Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 10 191-202. 1990.
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    Der unbewegte Beweger des Aristoteles (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 11 (2): 439-444. 1991.
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    A Tale of Two Metaphysics: Alison Stone's Environmental Hegel
    Hegel Bulletin 26 (1-2): 1-12. 2005.
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    Jacob Klein on the Dispute Between Plato and Aristotle Regarding Number
    New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 11 249-270. 2011.
    By examining Klein’s discussion of the difference between Plato and Aristotle regarding the ontology of number, this article aims to spells out the significanceof that debate both in itself and for the development of the later mathematical sciences. This is accomplished by explicating and expanding Klein’s account of the differences that exist in the understanding of number presented by these two thinkers. It is ultimately argued that Klein’s analysis can be used to show that the transition from…Read more
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    The Logic of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
    Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 13 29-49. 1998.
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    Metaphysics Z 4-5
    Ancient Philosophy 6 (n/a): 91-122. 1986.
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    Thinking About the Environment: Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval Past (edited book)
    with Alan Holland, Madonna R. Adams, Giovanni Casertano, Lynda G. Clarke, Michael W. Herren, Helen Karabatzaki, Emile F. Kutash, Teresa Kwiatkowska, Parviz Morewedge, Rosmarie Thee Morewedge, Lorina Quartarone, Livio Rossetti, Daryl M. Tress, Valentina Vincenti, and Hideya Yamakawa
    Lexington Books. 2002.
    Why should the work of the ancient and the medievals, so far as it relates to nature, still be of interest and an inspiration to us now? The contributions to this enlightening volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship's debt to the classical and medieval past. Thinking About the Environment synthesizes religious thought and environmental theory to trace a trajectory from Mesopotamian mythology and classical and Hellenistic Greek, through classical Latin writers, to medieval Christian v…Read more
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    The Logic of Art
    Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 14 187-202. 2000.
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    Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 & 3 by William E. Dooley & Arthur Madigan (review)
    Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 88 63-64. 1994.
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    Colloquium 8
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 5 (1): 247-276. 1989.
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    Form and Reason: Essays in Metaphysics
    State University of New York Press. 1993.
    Many of the essays have been presented, in early or shorter versions, at various conferences. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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    Metaphysics by Aristotle
    Review of Metaphysics 73 (1): 131-132. 2019.
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    The problem of the one and the many is central to ancient Greek philosophy, but surprisingly little attention has been paid to Aristotle's treatment of it in the Metaphysics. The Central Books of the Metaphysics are widely recognised as the most difficult portion of a most difficult work. This title aims to examine the Central Books.
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    This book is part of a larger study of the problem of the one and the many in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Although this portion can be read and understood on its own, some remarks about the contents of the two sister volumes will be helpful.