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18Colloquium 5 Commentary on SchultzProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 30 (1): 142-155. 2015.The paper, although polemical for the most part, also presents a substantive thesis. The polemical part is directed at the claim that the Platonic Socrates held that philosophy as a practice is to be devoted to the care of self and others, and that the expression of emotion is an important aspect of the philosophic life. To undermine that claim, counter-examples from the autobiographical narrative in the Phaedo and the speeches of Diotima and Alcibiades in the Symposium are brought in. Once anal…Read more
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16Philosophical themes between pagan and Christian. Iozzia aesthetic themes in pagan and Christian neoplatonism. From plotinus to Gregory of nyssa. Pp. XIV + 130, ills. London and new York: Bloomsbury academic, 2015. Cased, £90. Isbn: 978-1-4725-7232-5 (review)The Classical Review 67 (1): 50-52. 2017.
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J. F. Malherbe, "la Philosophie De Karl Popper Et Le Positivisme Logique" (review)Revue Internationale de Philosophie 33 (4): 883. 1979.
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David HUME, "Les Essais esthétiques", 1er partie: "Art et Société", 2e partie: "Art et Psychologie"; Traduction de Renée Bouveresse (review)Revue Internationale de Philosophie 29 (1/2=111/112): 187. 1975.
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Reading Ancient Texts. Volume Ii: Aristotle and Neoplatonism: Essays in Honour of Denis O'brien (edited book)Brill. 2007.The contributors to this volume offer, in the light of specialised knowledge of leading philosophers of the ancient world, answers to the question: how are we to read and understand the surviving texts of Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Augustine?
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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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Aesthetics |
Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |