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2Professor Vlastos's analysis of Socratic elenchus'Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 3 247-60. 1985.
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13Colloquium 3Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 15 (1): 57-86. 1999.
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12Sovereign Virtue (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (2): 397-399. 1993.This work upholds the leading role of virtue in the happy life against competition from goods of fortune, such as health, beauty, wealth, and honor. "Sovereign" in the title--a translation of kurios--may mean two things: complete and dominant. White holds that complete virtue, and more especially the activity in accordance with it, is dominant in Aristotle's version of the happy life.
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38Power, Liberty, and Counterfactual Conditionals in Hobbes' ThoughtHobbes Studies 3 (1): 3-17. 1990.
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138Aristotle’s “De Anima”: A Critical CommentaryCambridge University Press. 2007.Aristotle's De Anima is the first systematic philosophical account of the soul, which serves to explain the functioning of all mortal living things. In his commentary, Ronald Polansky argues that the work is far more structured and systematic than previously supposed. He contends that Aristotle seeks a comprehensive understanding of the soul and its faculties. By closely tracing the unfolding of the many-layered argumentation and the way Aristotle fits his inquiry meticulously within his scheme …Read more
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71Aristotle and Principlism in BioethicsDiametros 45 59-70. 2015.Principlism, a most prominent approach in bioethics, has been criticized for lacking an underlying moral theory. We propose that the four principles of principlism can be related to the four traditional cardinal virtues. These virtues appear prominently in Plato's Republic and in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We show how this connection can be made. In this way principlism has its own compelling ethical basis
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37The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2014.Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This Cambridge Companion includes twenty essays by leading scholars of Aristotle and ancient philosophy that cover the major issues of this text. The essays in this volume shed light on Aristotle's rigorous and challenging thinking on questions such …Read more
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295"Phronesis" on tour: Cultural adaptability of aristotelian ethical notionsKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 10 (4): 323-336. 2000.: How might bioethics take account of cultural diversity? Can practical wisdom of an Aristotelian sort be applied across cultures? After showing that practical wisdom involves both intellectual cleverness and moral virtue, it is argued that both these components have universality. Hence practical wisdom must be universal as well. Hellenic ethical thought neither depended on outdated theoretical notions nor limited itself to the Greek world, but was in fact developed with constant awareness of cu…Read more
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