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Manfred RIEDEL, "Rehabilitierung der praktischen Philosophie" (review)Revue Internationale de Philosophie 29 (1): 187. 1975.
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10Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2014._Charts the stages of the history of friendship as a philosophical concept in the Western world._
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12Collingwood: Science Versus Ethicsder 16. Weltkongress Für Philosophie 2 1282-1289. 1983.Is scientific reasoning the standard of rationality? Can historical explanation be reduced to the scientific mode of reasoning? R.G. Collingwood answered both questions negatively. He further attempted to show that the types of justification used to account for moral actions are closely similar to historical explanations. His ethics has thus a strong historicist and relativistio flavour. Hie aim of my paper is to state Collingwood's ethical views and to show that the "ethical judgment", which in…Read more
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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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88Art as error: Collingwood's early reading of PlatoBritish Journal of Aesthetics 40 (2): 251-263. 2000.
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66Le 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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406The 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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56Dual 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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19Consciousness and Introspection in Plotinus and AugustineProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 22 145-174. 2006.
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41Plotinus 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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La Notion d'esprit, pour une critique des concepts mentauxRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 85 (3): 424-425. 1980.
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36Hesiod'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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Aesthetics |
Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |