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33Penner (T.), Rowe (C.) Plato's Lysis. Pp. xiv + 366. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Cased, £55, US$95. ISBN: 978-0-521-79130- (review)The Classical Review 58 (1): 64-66. 2008.
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69Le Principe Du Beau Chez Plotin: Réflexions sur Enneas VI.7.32 et 33Phronesis 45 (1): 38-63. 2000.The status of beauty in Plotinus' metaphysics is unclear: is it a Form in Intellect, the Intelligible Principle itself, or the One? Basing themselves on a number of well-known passages in the "Enneads," and assuming that Plotinus' Forms are similar in function and status to Plato's, many scholars hold that Plotinus theorized beauty as a determinate entity in Intellect. Such assumptions, it is here argued, lead to difficulties over self-predication, the interpretation of Plotinus's rich and varie…Read more
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89Art as error: Collingwood's early reading of PlatoBritish Journal of Aesthetics 40 (2): 251-263. 2000.
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60Dual Selfhood and Self-Perfection in the EnneadsEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2): 331-345. 2009.Plotinus’s theory of dual selfhood has ethical norms built into it, all of which derive from the ontological superiority of the higher (or undescended) soul in us overthe body-soul compound. The moral life, as it is presented in the Enneads, is a life of self-perfection, devoted to the care of the higher self. Such a conception of morality is prone to strike modern readers as either ‘egoistic’ or unduly austere. If there is no doubt that Plotinus’s ethics is exceptionally austere, it will be arg…Read more
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411The Is/Ought Gap, the Fact/Value Distinction and the Naturalistic FallacyDialogue 34 (4): 727-. 1995.For the last 40 years or so the is/ought gap, the fact/value distinction and the naturalistic fallacy have figured prominently in ethical debates. This longevity, however, has had an adverse side effect. So familiar have they become that they—and their respective rationales—have tended to become blurred. It is the purpose of this paper to explain why they should be kept distinct.
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19Consciousness and Introspection in Plotinus and AugustineProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 22 145-174. 2006.
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44Plotinus on self: The philosophy of the 'we' (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (2). 2010.Plotinus's theory of dual selfhood is one of the best-known and most puzzling aspects of his philosophy. Each human being, he held, is both a compound of body and soul and a discarnate member of the hypostasis Intellect. He built evaluative norms into this duality, all of which derive from what he argued to be the ontological superiority of the discarnate element in us over the body-soul compound. This led him, in turn, to claim that the best and happiest human life is a life of self-purificatio…Read more
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39Hesiod's Proem And Plato's IonClassical Quarterly 64 (1): 25-42. 2014.Plato's Hesiod is a neglected topic, scholars having long regarded Plato's Homer as a more promising field of inquiry. My aim in this chapter is to demonstrate that this particular bias of scholarly attention, although understandable, is unjustified. Of no other dialogue is this truer than of the Ion
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La Notion d'esprit, pour une critique des concepts mentauxRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 85 (3): 424-425. 1980.
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17Le rôle du concept d'intention dans la formation du jugement esthétiqueRevue Philosophique De Louvain 83 (2): 197-213. 1985.
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52Epicurus and FriendshipDialogue 28 (2): 275-. 1989.Ever since classical times, both Greek and Roman, friendship as a philosophical topic has been on the wane. The only notable exception is Montaigne's essay which, however, owes much to classical treatments. This decline of philosophical interest in friendship is not easy to account for. Alasdair McIntyre's overall thesis in After Virtue seemingly affords him with a ready interpretation. The progressive atomization of society, together with the concurrent growth of individualism that characterize…Read more
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128On interpreting Plato's IonPhronesis 49 (2): 169-201. 2004.Plato's "Ion," despite its frail frame and traditionally modest status in the corpus, has given rise to large exegetical claims. Thus some historians of aesthetics, reading it alongside page 205 of the Symposium, have sought to identify in it the seeds of the post-Kantian notion of 'art' as non-technical making, and to trace to it the Romantic conception of the poet as a creative genius. Others have argued that, in the "Ion," Plato has Socrates assume the existence of a technē of poetry. In this…Read more
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24Colloquium 5: Consciousness and Introspection in Plotinus and AugustineProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 22 (1): 145-183. 2007.
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