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24The Sophists and Legal Philosophy S. Kirste, K. Waechter, M. Walther (edd.): Die Sophistik. Entstehung, Gestalt und Folgeprobleme des Gegensatzes von Naturrecht und positivem Recht . Pp. 175. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Paper, €36. ISBN: 3-515-08194- (review)The Classical Review 55 (01): 47-. 2005.
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54The art of living: Socratic reflections from plat0 to FoucaultPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 423-425. 2000.From his own day to the present Socrates has presented a challenge to philosophers and commentators, a challenge at once of a puzzle to be solved and of an ideal to be continually reshaped in response to the demands of shifting historical perspectives. Alexander Nehamas’s intriguing book combines discussion of this ongoing process, specifically of responses to Socrates by Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, with exemplification of it via his own response to Socrates. The focus of these responses…Read more
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31The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to FoucaultPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 423. 2000.From his own day to the present Socrates has presented a challenge to philosophers and commentators, a challenge at once of a puzzle to be solved and of an ideal to be continually reshaped in response to the demands of shifting historical perspectives. Alexander Nehamas’s intriguing book combines discussion of this ongoing process, specifically of responses to Socrates by Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, with exemplification of it via his own response to Socrates. The focus of these responses…Read more
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12Socratic Perplexity and the nature of philosophy (review)Ancient Philosophy 20 (2): 451-454. 2000.
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52Studies in greek philosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1). 1999.Studies in Greek Philosophy. Gregory Vlastos. Edited by Daniel W. Graham. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995. Volume I The Presocratics pp. xxxiv + 389; Volume II Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition pp. xxiv + 349. 40 per volume (hb.), ISBN 0-691-03310-2, 0-691-03311-0; 14.50 per volume (pb.), ISBN 0-691-01937-1, 0-691-01938-X.
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16Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to PlotinusPhilosophical Review 122 (4): 667-670. 2013.
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24Political Authority and Obligation in AristotleInternational Philosophical Quarterly 46 (2): 236-238. 2006.
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14Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 38 (1): 85-86. 1998.
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240Nomos and phusis in democritus and PlatoSocial Philosophy and Policy 24 (2): 1-20. 2007.This essay explores the treatment of the relation between nature (phusis) and norm or convention (nomos) in Democritus and in certain Platonic dialogues. In his physical theory Democritus draws a sharp contrast between the real nature of things and their representation via human conventions, but in his political and ethical theory he maintains that moral conventions are grounded in the reality of human nature. Plato builds on that insight in the account of the nature of morality in the myth in t…Read more
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5Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2): 248-250. 2003.
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12Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (4): 514-515. 2000.
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14Fact and ValueIn Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley (eds.), Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, Springer Verlag. pp. 67-78. 2019.For Murdoch the importance of the fact–value dichotomy is not to suggest that value is not real. Rather this separation is required in order to keep value pure and untainted with empirical facts. Here Murdoch focuses Kant and Wittgenstein, notably the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus. For both, value appears as an intimation of ‘something higher’. And it is here that Murdoch sees the deeper problem with various forms of the fact–value dichotomy: that in our explanations of human life the essential …Read more
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10A sense for humanity: the ethical thought of Raimond Gaita (edited book)Monash University Publishing. 2014.The essays in this collection examine the influence of Gaita's ethical thought in a broad sense, beyond academic philosophy, especially within Australian society and culture where it has been most significant. Through his various works, including his acclaimed biography, Romulus: My Father, Gaita's ethical thought has had a considerable impact on the intellectual and cultural life of Australia.
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24What Maisie Knew: Moral Imagination and Two Conceptions of Moral ThoughtSATS 18 (2): 141-157. 2017.According to a widely held view, moral thought essentially involves the survey of an array of independently specifiable morally relevant facts, on the basis of which an agent is to reach a judgment about how anybody in that situation ought to act. I argue, drawing on Henry James’s.
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6Hume and the Enlightenment (edited book)Pickering & Chatto Publishing. 2011.While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy his place within Enlightenment thinking is much less clearly defined. Taking recent work on Hume as a starting point, this volume of original essays aims to re-examine and clarify Hume's influence on the thought and values of the Enlightenment
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