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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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191Plato 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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54Democracy Then and Now Plato, Mill, and Rawls on Wealth and RulingPhilosophical Inquiry 36 (1-2): 1-12. 2012.
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Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle, and the ModernsPhilosophical Quarterly 53 (212): 451-453. 2003.
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42Colloquium 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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16Abraham I. Melden 1910-1991Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 66 (5). 1993.
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183The Blackwell Guide to Plato's "Republic" (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2006._The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic_ consists of thirteen new essays written by both established scholars and younger researchers with the specific aim of helping readers to understand Plato’s masterwork. This guide to Plato’s _Republic_ is designed to help readers understand this foundational work of the Western canon. Sheds new light on many central features and themes of the Republic. Covers the literary and philosophical style of the _Republic_; Plato’s theories of justice and knowledge…Read more
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161Plato'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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35The 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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83Plato on Friendship and Familial Love in the Lysis and The RepublicPhilosophical Inquiry 6 (1): 1-12. 1984.
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144Two Theories of Good in Plato’s RepublicArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 67 (3): 223-245. 1985.
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89Aristotle on Practical Inference, the Explanation of Action, and AkrasiaPhronesis 14 (2): 162-189. 1969.
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262Plato'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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