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30The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to FoucaultPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 423. 2000.From his own day to the present Socrates has presented a challenge to philosophers and commentators, a challenge at once of a puzzle to be solved and of an ideal to be continually reshaped in response to the demands of shifting historical perspectives. Alexander Nehamas’s intriguing book combines discussion of this ongoing process, specifically of responses to Socrates by Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, with exemplification of it via his own response to Socrates. The focus of these responses…Read more
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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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26Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--Iv: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2006.This volume, which is part of the Clarendon Aristotle Series, offers a clear and faithful new translation of Books II to IV of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, accompanied by an analytical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Books II to IV, Aristotle gives his account of virtue of character in general and of the principal virtues individually, topics of central interest both to his ethical theory and to modern ethical theorists. Consequently major themes of the commentary are connecti…Read more
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24The Sophists and Legal Philosophy S. Kirste, K. Waechter, M. Walther (edd.): Die Sophistik. Entstehung, Gestalt und Folgeprobleme des Gegensatzes von Naturrecht und positivem Recht . Pp. 175. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Paper, €36. ISBN: 3-515-08194- (review)The Classical Review 55 (01): 47-. 2005.
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23Political Authority and Obligation in AristotleInternational Philosophical Quarterly 46 (2): 236-238. 2006.
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23Socrates and the State Richard Kraut: Socrates and the State. Pp. xii + 338. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. £18.60 (review)The Classical Review 35 (01): 63-65. 1985.
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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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20Review of David L. Perry, The Concept of Pleasure (review)Philosophical Books 9 (1): 19-21. 1968.
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19Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xvi, 1998 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1998.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual volume of original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books. The 1998 volume is broad in scope, as ever, featuring four articles on Aristotle, two on Plato, and one each on Xenophanes, the Atomists, and Plutarch.
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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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14Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 38 (1): 85-86. 1998.
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13Greek PhilosophersOxford University Press USA. 1999.Almost uniquely for someone whose thought has been so influential, Socrates wrote nothing himself, and our knowledge of his philosophical opinions and method is derived mainly from the engaging and infuriating figure who appears in Plato's dialogues. The philosophy of Socrates and Plato is therefore closely interconnected, and the most powerful elements of Plato's mature thought form the basis of an interpretation of knowledge, reality, and morality which is still held and debated by philosopher…Read more
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13Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xi: 1993 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1993.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books. Contributors to this volume; Paul A. Vander Waerdt, Christopher Rowe, Rachel Rue, Paula Gottlieb, Robert Bolton, and John M. Cooper.
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