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211Subject and Consciousness: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Self-ConsciousnessRowman & Littlefield. 1989.Title on spine: Subject & consciousness.
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17The use of error as an argument in the language of human sciences: The dogmatic use of errorSemiotica 120 (1-2): 139-160. 1998.
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48The Myth of Protagoras and Plato's Theory of MeasurementHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 4 (4). 1987.
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12The Bounds of Freedom: About the Eastern and Western Approaches to FreedomPeter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. 1995.The Straniak Philosophy Prize 1995 awarded by the Hermann and Marianne Straniak Foundation Sarnen/Switzerland This book explores Eastern and Western ideas of freedom and reveals the essential differences, as well as similarities, between Eastern and Western cultural values. Inspired by an ancient Greek myth recounted by Protagoras, the authors suggest that three important values tend to motivate human activity: achieving pleasure, achieving results, and obeying moral law. Then, drawing on intell…Read more
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18Plato and Protagoras: Truth and Relativism in Ancient Greek PhilosophyLexington Books. 1999.Are human beings antithetical in nature? Is there a radical difference between pleasure, efficiency, and moral good, or is the conflict only imaginary? These have traditionally been considered the central questions of Plato's most vivid dialogue, the Protagoras. Many interpreters have seen this dialogue as a confrontation between the moralist and the relativist . This dichotomy is manifest when Plato and Protagoras discuss theoretical questions concerning either knowledge of facts or knowledge o…Read more
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166Time, Understanding, and WillDiogenes 48 (190): 3-21. 2000.In the passage from the Enneads devoted to discussing and defining the nature of time, it is written that first one must experience eternity, which, as everyone knows, is the model and archetype of time. This initial warning, which is especially serious because we trust in its sincerity, appears to wipe out all hope of finding common ground with its author.Jorge Luis Borges, History of EternitySo let us leave the Platonists to wander off down a blind alley. Poor simpletons, they think they will …Read more
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83The moral intellectualism of Plato’s SocratesBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 13 (1): 1-14. 2008.Commentators do not take Socrates’ theses in the Hippias Minor seriously. They believe it is an aporetic dialogue and even that Socrates does not mean what he says. Hence they are unable to understand the presuppositions behind Socrates’ two interconnected theses: that those who do wrong and lie voluntarily are better than those who do wrong unintentionally, and that no one does wrong and lies voluntarily. Arguing that liars are better than the unenlightened, Socrates concludes that there are no…Read more
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46Toward a Rationality of Emotions (review)International Studies in Philosophy 29 (2): 145-146. 1997.
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