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44Desire, identity, and existence: essays in honor of T.M. Penner (edited book)Academic Print. &. 2003.
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The Historical Socrates and Plato's Early Dialogues: Some Philosophical QuestionsIn C. J. Rowe J. Annas (ed.), New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient, . pp. 189-212. 2002.
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1Thrasymachus and the os alethos RulerSkepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 20. 2009.
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Socratic Ethics: Ultra-Realism, Determinism, and Ethical TruthIn Christopher Gill (ed.), Virtue, norms, and objectivity: issues in ancient and modern ethics, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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What is the Form of the Good the Form of: a Question about the Plot of the RepublicIn Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann & Terrence Penner (eds.), Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic, University of Edinburgh. pp. 42-60. 2007.
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13The Forms in the RepublicIn Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic, Blackwell. pp. 234-262. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: On What the Forms Are: the Present State of the Question Sketch of the View to be Offered Here Plan of this Discussion of the Forms The Republic's Project as a Whole The First Group of Passages on the Forms (V.472b—e with 454a–456c) The Second Group of Passages (X.596a–602b) The Third Group of Passages on the Forms (V.475e–480b, VI.484b–485b, 486d‐e, 490a—b, 493e–494a, 500b–502d) The Fourth Group of Passages (VI.502c‐VII.541b: Sun, Line, and Cave) as Describ…Read more
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11The Ascent from Nominalism: Some Existence Arguments in Plato's Middle DialoguesSpringer Verlag. 1987.divisibility in Physics VI. I had been assuming at that time that Aristotle's elimination of reference to the infinitely large in his account of the potential inf inite--like the elimination of the infinitely small from nineteenth century accounts of limits and continuity--gave us everything that was important in a theory of the infinite. Hilbert's paper showed me that this was not obviously so. Suddenly other certainties about Aristotle's (apparently) judicious toning down of (supposed) Platoni…Read more
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1SocratesIn C. J. Rowe Malcolm Schofield (ed.), Cambridge History of Ancient Political Thought, . pp. 164-189. 2000.
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53Two notes on the Crito: the impotence of the many, and 'persuade or obey'Classical Quarterly 47 (01): 133-146. 1997.So far, interpreters have not made the import of this last clause clear. F. J. Church translates the last phrase ‘they act at random’. Burnet says of Adam that he seems to have been the first to point out that the meaning cannot be ‘they act at random’. Instead, ‘the phrase expresses indifference’. Adam′s idea, which Burnet here commends, is that the many are thoughtless in their treatment of the individual; and Adam compares 48C below: the many would lightly put someone to death and just as lig…Read more
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