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41Killing Socrates: Plato¿s later thoughts on democracyJournal of Hellenic Studies 121 63-76. 2001.The paper has two main aims, one larger and one slightly narrower. The larger aim is to undermine further a tendency that has dogged the interpretation of Platonic political philosophy in modern times, despite some dissenting voices: the tendency to begin from the assumption that Plato¿s thinking changed and developed over time, as if we already had privileged access to his biography. The slightly narrower aim is to reply to two charges of intellectual parricide made against Plato. The first is …Read more
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50Knowledge, Perception and Memory: Theaetetus 166 BClassical Quarterly 32 (02): 304-. 1982.At Theaetetus 163d-164b Socrates objects to the thesis that knowledge is perception by pointing out that a man who has seen something can still remember it, and so has knowledge of it; but this is impossible, if knowledge is perception, since he is no longer perceiving it.To this Protagoras is made to reply with two sentences at 166b 1–4: .Cornford translates ‘ For instance, do you think you will find anyone to admit that one's present memory of a past impression is an impression of the same cha…Read more
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45New directions M. S. Lane: Method and politics in Plato's statesman (cambridge classical studies). Pp. XIII + 229. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 1998. Cased, £35. Isbn: 0-521-58229-6. N. Notomi: The unity of Plato's sophist: Between the sophist and the philosopher (cambridge classical studies). Pp. XXI + 346. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 1999. Cased, £45. Isbn: 0-521-63259- (review)The Classical Review 50 (02): 490-. 2000.
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44D. Frede: Platon : Philebos. (Platon, Werke: Übersetzung und Kommentar 3.2.) Pp. 450. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997. DM 128. ISBN: 3-525-30409- (review)The Classical Review 50 (02): 582-. 2000.
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30Robert Véron: Platon: une introduction à la vie de l'esprit. (Collection d'études anciennes, 111.) Pp. 209. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1987. Paper (review)The Classical Review 38 (02): 425-. 1988.
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33Aims and Methods in Aristotle's PoliticsClassical Quarterly 27 (01): 159-. 1977.This paper originated in an attempt to come to terms with the problems which arise from the structure of the Politics. It is no news to anyone who has the slightest familiarity with the Politics that the work reads, to borrow a phrase of Barker's, not as a composition, but as composite. Broadly speaking, it falls into three parts: Books I–III, Books IV-VI, and Books VII-VIII
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94Plato and the art of philosophical writingCambridge University Press. 2007.Plato's dialogues are usually understood as simple examples of philosophy in action. In this book Professor Rowe treats them rather as literary-philosophical artefacts, shaped by Plato's desire to persuade his readers to exchange their view of life and the universe for a different view which, from their present perspective, they will barely begin to comprehend. What emerges is a radically new Plato: a Socratic throughout, who even in the late dialogues is still essentially the Plato (and the Soc…Read more
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52PlatoBristol Classical Press. 1984.The Statesman is Plato's neglected political work, but it is crucial for an understanding of the development of his political thinking. In some respects it continues themes from the Republic, particularly the importance of knowledge as entitlement to rule. But there are also changes: Plato has dropped the ambitious metaphysical synthesis of the Republic, changed his view of the moral psychology of the citizen, and revised his position on the role of law and institutions. In its presentation of t…Read more
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57Nicomachean Ethics: Translation, Introduction, Commentary (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2002.line-by-line notes are invariably informative and helpful, as well thought-provoking.' John M. Cooper, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton UniversityIn a new English translation by Christopher Rowe, this great classic of moral philosophy is accompanied here by an extended introduction and detailed lin-by-line commentary by Sarah Broadie. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, her scholarly and instructive approach will prove invaluable for students reading the text for the first time. This thorou…Read more
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65Plato Re-Edited - E. A. Duke, W. F. Hicken, W. S. M. Nicoll, D. B. Robinson, J. C. G. Strachan (edd.): Platonis Opera: Vol. I: Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophista, Politicus (Oxford Classical Texts). Pp. xxxii + 572. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. £17.50. ISBN: 0-19-814569-1 (review)The Classical Review 47 (02): 272-274. 1997.
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31Essays on the Timaeus M. R. Wright (ed.): Reason and Necessity. Essays on Plato's Timaeus. Pp. XVI + 191. London: Duckworth, 2001. Cased, £40. Isbn: 0-7156-3057-1 (review)The Classical Review 54 (02): 316-317. 2004.
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39Turtles All the Way Down: On Plato's Theaetetus, a Commentary and TranslationPhilosophical Quarterly 66 (263): 423-425. 2016.
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18Aristotle's eudemian ethics on loving people and thingsThe Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck 132 29. 2012.
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23Politics, Philosophy, Writing: Plato’s Art of Caring for Souls (review)The Classical Review 52 (2): 370-371. 2002.
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2The symposium as a socratic dialogueIn James H. Lesher, Debra Nails & Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield (eds.), Plato's Symposium: issues in interpretation and reception, Harvard University Press. 2006.
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7Colloquium 5Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 7 (1): 159-182. 1991.
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14Socrates and Diotima: Eros, Immortality, and CreativityProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 15 239-259. 1999.
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16Plato: Theaetetus and Sophist (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2015.Plato's Theaetetus and Sophist are two of his most important dialogues, and are widely read and discussed by philosophers for what they reveal about his epistemology and particularly his accounts of belief and knowledge. Although they form part of a single Platonic project, these dialogues are not usually presented as a pair, as they are in Christopher Rowe's new and lively translation. Offering a high standard of accuracy and readability, the translation reveals the continuity between these dia…Read more
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