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126Degrees of Separation in the PhaedoPhronesis 48 (2). 2003.It can be shown that, if we assume 'substance dualism', or the real distinctness of the soul from the body, then the standard objections to the Cyclical Argument in the "Phaedo" fail. So charity would presumably require that we take substance dualism to be presupposed by that argument. To do so would not beg any question, since substance dualism is a significantly weaker thesis than the immortality of the soul. Moreover, there is good textual evidence in favor of this presumption. A closer look …Read more
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21Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics VIII.9, 1160a14–30Classical Quarterly 44 (01): 46-. 1994.This difficult and evidently corrupt text of Aristotle has given rise to a variety of differing readings among the commentators. I shall propose a new and conservative emendation of the text, which, I believe, resolves all of the difficulties. But it is helpful first to take stock of those difficulties, in order to see what is required of a solution.
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8The great question of practical truth, and a diminutive answerActa Philosophica 19 (1): 145-162. 2010.
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Mixed actions and double effectIn Michael Pakaluk & Giles Pearson (eds.), Moral psychology and human action in Aristotle, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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17Colloquium 4Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 8 (1): 169-181. 1992.
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52Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 1991."Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume.... A splendid book!" --M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York.
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22Genethics (review)Review of Metaphysics 46 (4): 847-848. 1993.This is intended to be a foundational study in what the author claims is a new branch of ethics, "genethics," which has as its distinctive subject matter three sorts of questions: Should some human being or group of human beings come into existence? If so, how many? Of these, what should they be like? Heyd maintains that these questions are posed for the first time, or in a distinctive way, because of developments in biotechnology, and that they cannot be resolved within any of the major types o…Read more
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14Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX (Clarendon Aristotle Series) (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1998.Michael Pakaluk presents the first systematic study in English of Books VIII and IX of Aristotle's masterpiece of moral philosophy, the Nicomachean Ethics; these books comprise one of the most famous of all discussions of friendship. Pakaluk accompanies his fresh and accurate translation with a philosophical commentary which unfolds lucidly the various arguments in the text, assuming no knowledge of Greek on the part of the reader.
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21The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain (review)Review of Metaphysics 45 (1): 149-150. 1991.The author aims to write intellectual history in a traditional cast of a particular idea, the idea of progress, among a particular elite, the educated class of Britain roughly between 1730 and 1789. He describes the idea of progress as "belief in the movement over time of some aspect or aspects of human existence, within a social setting, toward a better condition". This admittedly broad definition is adopted in order to encompass belief in various sorts of progress. One might wonder why every v…Read more
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26Miller, Jon. The Reception of Aristotle’s Ethics.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. x+310. $89.10 (review)Ethics 124 (3): 645-649. 2014.
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12Aristotle's Politics: Living Well and Living Together, by Garver, Eugene: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012, pp. xi+ 300, US $40.00 (hardback) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 1-3. 2013.
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75Is the Common Good of Political Society Limited and Instrumental?Review of Metaphysics 55 (1). 2001.Through a careful discussion of the relevant texts in De Regno and the Summa Theologiae, the author argues that Aquinas understands the political common good to include the full virtue and complete happiness of all of the citizens, as related to one another by bonds of justice and civic friendship. It is not something limited and instrument, as John Finnis has recently argued. Yet that the common good has this character for Aquinas does not imply that he regards political authority as in princip…Read more
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24Nicomachean Ethics: Books Viii and Ix (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 1998.In Books VIII and IX of his masterpiece of moral philosophy, the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives perhaps the most famous of all philosophical discussions of friendship. Michael Pakaluk presents the first systematic study in English of these books, showing how important Aristotle's treatment of friendship is to his ethics as a whole. Pakaluk's fresh and scrupulously accurate translation is accompanied by a detailed philosophical commentary which reveals the remarkably coherent structure of th…Read more
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177Moral psychology and human action in Aristotle (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.This volume aims to bring the two streams of research together, offering a fresh infusion of Aristotelian insights into moral psychology and philosophy of ...
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20Commentary on SiskoProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 16 (1): 199-206. 2000.
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