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5A Matter of ImmediacyIn Andrew E. Benjamin & Dimitris Vardoulakis (eds.), Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, State University of New York Press. pp. 237-257. 2015.
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1Introduction to AntigoneColloquy 11 6-7. 2006.Sophocles seems to have already reached in Antigone the same insight about the body politic which will again be expressed in the seventeenth century by Spinoza: namely, the political has as its condition of possibility the potential for being challenged from within. Sophocles’ play starts immediately after Thebes has successfully stoved off a challenge from an external enemy – from Argos, another city state. However, during the battle, Eteocles, the king, and his own brother, Polynices, who in f…Read more
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Toward a Critique of the Ineffectual: Heidegger’s Reading of Aristotle and the Construction of an Action Without EndsAustralasian Philosophical Review 6 (3): 220-245. 2022.The paper demonstrates how Heidegger constructed his notion of an action without ends, or the ineffectual, through his early readings of Aristotle. Heidegger initially aligns the ineffectual with the notion of phronesis in Nicomachean Ethics, and later develops it further in Division 2 of Being and Time. The paper examines some of the implications of the conception of an action without ends. It shows that in fact the notion is absent from Aristotle and it is inconsistent. Finally, the paper brie…Read more
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The Effectual: Replying to ResponsesAustralasian Philosophical Review 6 (3): 315-325. 2022.1. The opening sentences of Being and Time (§1) indicate that, according to Heidegger, Plato and Aristotle raised the question of being. A page later, Heidegger asserts that Aristotle discovered th...
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Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799 By Anthony J. La VopaAuslegung 27 65-68. 2004.
Dimitris Vardoulakis
University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury
Western Sydney University
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Western Sydney UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
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Baruch Spinoza |
Sovereignty |
Democracy |
Freedom and Liberty |
Equality |
Epicureans |