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Authority and Aristotle: The Politics of Deliberation in Ancient AthensDissertation, Duquesne University. 1987.It is generally held that the ancient Greeks had neither the language nor the political experience from which to draw a scientific account of authority. Alternatively it is argued that the Greeks experienced a variation of what we call the prerogative to rule, and that the ancient account of authority can be located in what Aristotle and others have said about ruling and being ruled. I demonstrate that authority does figure in the political lives of the ancient Greeks, that Aristotle gives an ac…Read more
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Certainty and Consistency in the Socratic ElenchusIn Gary Alan Scott (ed.), Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond, The Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 266-280. 2002.
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18For The Love Of BoysFoucault Studies 17 213-231. 2014.Foucault’s late studies of classical Greek and Roman texts are significant for the attention they give to the nuances and complexities the authors of those texts attribute to the relations between men and boys. Foucault follows carefully the considerations the classical writers gave to the bodies, pleasures and knowledge that formed and were formed by these relations. His aim is not to capture what was said in these texts but to think with them about what it might have taken, lacking any standar…Read more
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Art and Artworks |
Philosophy of Film |
Philosophy of Music |
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Aesthetic Cognition |
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