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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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194Plato 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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165Plato's Criticism of the "Democratic Man'' in the RepublicThe Journal of Ethics 5 (1): 57-71. 2001.The article discusses two puzzles about Plato''s account of the democratic person: (1) unlike his account of the democratic city, his characterization of a democratic person is markedly incorrect. (2) His criticism of a person so characterized is criticism of a straw man. The article argues that the first puzzle is resolved if we see it as a result of Plato''s assumption that a democratic person is a person whose soul is isomorphic to a democratic constitution. Such a person has a desire satisfa…Read more
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2How did Thrasymachus arrive at his account of what justice is? At first he simply announces it, but soon enough Plato tells us that it is the conclusion of an argument:“if one reasons rightly, it works out that the just is the same thing everywhere, the advantage of the stronger”(339a; Shorey trans., modified). Not as explicitly but clearly enough, we can see that Glaucon works up his contractarian account of justice by looking at the origin of justice (358c–e). Earlier, Polemarchus fetches the idea of ... (review)In Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic, Blackwell. pp. 125. 2006.
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36The Good of the City and the Good of the Citizens in Plato’s RepublicPhilosophical Inquiry 39 (3-4): 8-25. 2015.
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86Plato on Friendship and Familial Love in the Lysis and The RepublicPhilosophical Inquiry 6 (1): 1-12. 1984.
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150Two Theories of Good in Plato’s RepublicArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 67 (3): 223-245. 1985.
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93Aristotle on Practical Inference, the Explanation of Action, and AkrasiaPhronesis 14 (2): 162-189. 1969.
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263Plato'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. Moravcsik (ed.), Patterns in Plato's Thought, Springer. 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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54Understanding 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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122Goodness 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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