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1The Socratic Paradoxes and Virtue and Happiness in Plato's Earlier DialoguesDissertation, Cornell University. 1961.
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12Plato Freud: Two Theories of LoveWiley-Blackwell. 1988.What is love? Why do we idealize those whom we love? How do we choose whom to love? Are some kinds of love better than others? Each age returns to these questions with renewed perplexity. Gerasimos Santas examinees the two greatest theoretical architectures of love, side by side. It provides a thorough critical description and comparison of these theories, allowing a sophisticated dialogue to emerge between the two thinkers. In the first half of the book Professor Santas reconstructs and explain…Read more
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197Plato and Freud: two theories of loveWiley-Blackwell. 1988.What is love? Why do we idealize those whom we love? How do we choose whom to love? Are some kinds of love better than others? Each age returns to these questions with renewed perplexity. Gerasimos Santas examinees the two greatest theoretical architectures of love, side by side. It provides a thorough critical description and comparison of these theories, allowing a sophisticated dialogue to emerge between the two thinkers. In the first half of the book Professor Santas reconstructs and explain…Read more
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57Democracy Then and Now Plato, Mill, and Rawls on Wealth and RulingPhilosophical Inquiry 36 (1-2): 1-12. 2012.
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266Plato's Criticisms of Democracy in the RepublicSocial Philosophy and Policy 24 (2): 70-89. 2007.Plato's antidemocratic theory of social justice is instructive once we distinguish between the abstract parts of his theory and the empirical or other assumptions he uses in applying that theory. His application may have contained empirical mistakes, and it may have been burdened too much with a prolific metaphysics and a demanding epistemology. An attempt is made to look at his theory of social justice in imaginary isolation from empirical mistakes and from his metaphysics and epistemology. It …Read more
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26Hintikka on Knowledge and its Objects in PlatoIn J. M. E. Maravcsik (ed.), Patterns in Plato's thought, Reidel. pp. 31-51. 1973.
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The Socratic Method in Republic ISkepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 20. 2009.
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Plato on Goodness and Rationality in PlatonRevue Internationale de Philosophie 40 (156-157): 97-114. 1986.
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2MATTHEWS, G.-Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of PhilosophyPhilosophical Books 42 (3): 196-196. 2001.
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37Understanding Plato's Republic (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2010._Understanding Plato’s Republic_ is an accessible introduction to the concepts of justice that inform Plato’s Republic, elucidating the ancient philosopher's main argument that we would be better off leading just lives rather than unjust ones Provides a much needed up to date discussion of _The Republic_'s fundamental ideas and Plato's main argument Discusses the unity and coherence of _The Republic_ as a whole Written in a lively style, informed by over 50 years of teaching experience Reveals r…Read more
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123Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle and the ModernsWiley-Blackwell. 2001.This volume explores Plato and Aristotle's theories about good things, goodness, and the best life for human beings, and draws comparisons between ancient and modern theories of good and justice
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7The Form of Good in Plato's RepublicIn Gail Fine (ed.), Plato, Volume 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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220Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Form of the Good: Ethics Without Metaphysics?Philosophical Papers 18 (2): 137-160. 1989.
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12Methods of Reasoning About Justice in Plato's RepublicIn Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's "Republic", Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: The Empirical Method of Thrasymachus The Contractarian Method of Glaucon The Functional Method of Plato The Significance of Methods.
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Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle, and the ModernsPhilosophical Quarterly 53 (212): 451-453. 2003.
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46Colloquium 2 Plato on the Good of the City-state in the RepublicProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 30 (1): 41-62. 2015.This paper argues that in Plato’s utopia the good of the ideal city-state is not identical with the good of the citizens, but it is nevertheless not independent of the good of the citizens. And similarly with the happiness of the city-state and the happiness of the citizens in it, something that can be more clearly seen once the happiness of the city and the happiness of the individual are analyzed in terms of the goods appropriate to each. Plato’s principle of social justice distributes such go…Read more
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