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16Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to PlotinusPhilosophical Review 122 (4): 667-670. 2013.
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30Plato on Punishment Mary Margaret Mackenzie: Plato on Punishment. Pp. x + 278. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1981. £17.25 (review)The Classical Review 32 (02): 198-200. 1982.
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68Plato, Hare and Davidson on akrasiaMind 89 (356): 499-518. 1980.Davidson poses the problem via three propositions p1-P3, Each persuasive but apparently inconsistent. His solution, That the three are consistent, Merely re-Phrases the problem. We should rather reject p2; if an agent judges that it would be better to do "x" than to do "y", Then he wants to do "x" more than he wants to do "y". Plato accepts p2 because he thinks all agents predominantly self-Interested, And hare because he thinks that evaluative judgments imply desires; both are criticized. An al…Read more
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39Plato and the Written Word Wolfgang Wieland: Platon und die Formen des Wissens. Pp. 339. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. DM. 72 (paper, DM. 59) (review)The Classical Review 33 (01): 58-60. 1983.
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41Plato and the mathematicians: An examination of professor Hare's viewsPhilosophical Quarterly 17 (68): 193-203. 1967.197: on logon didonai as giving a proof. In answer to Plato's charge that mathematicians take as their starting point certain unproved assumptions, and call upon them to "give an account" of them in the sense of deriving them from some more basic principle or principles
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22Plato and the Written Word - Wolfgang Wieland: Platon und die Formen des Wissens. Pp. 339. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. DM. 72 (review)The Classical Review 33 (1): 58-60. 1983.
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23Political Authority and Obligation in AristotleInternational Philosophical Quarterly 46 (2): 236-238. 2006.
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14Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 38 (1): 85-86. 1998.
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236Nomos and phusis in democritus and PlatoSocial Philosophy and Policy 24 (2): 1-20. 2007.This essay explores the treatment of the relation between nature (phusis) and norm or convention (nomos) in Democritus and in certain Platonic dialogues. In his physical theory Democritus draws a sharp contrast between the real nature of things and their representation via human conventions, but in his political and ethical theory he maintains that moral conventions are grounded in the reality of human nature. Plato builds on that insight in the account of the nature of morality in the myth in t…Read more
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52Pleasure, mind, and soul: selected papers in ancient philosophyOxford University Press. 2007.C. C. W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek atomists, showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and that pleasure is also a central concept for the atomists. Pleasure, Mind, …Read more
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33Review of mi-kyoung Lee, Lee, Epistemology After Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (11). 2005.
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