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24On Translationby ricoeur, paul On Translationby sallis, johnJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (2). 2008.
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76Lighting Up the Lizard Brain: The New Necessity of TheaterTopoi 30 (2): 151-155. 2011.The paper seeks to identify criteria that digital communication would have to satisfy in order to serve the functions for which theater is necessary in human cultures
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35Aristotle on Character in Tragedy, or, Who Is Creon? What Is He?Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (3): 301-309. 2009.
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22The Pyrrhonian ModesIn Richard Bett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 208. 2010.
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1Sophocles' humanismIn William Robert Wians (ed.), Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature, State University of New York Press. 2009.
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16Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten VirtueOxford University Press USA. 2014.Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary.Reverence, says philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruff, begins in an understanding of human limitations. From this grows the capacity to be in awe of whatever we believe lies outside our control -- God, truth, justice, nature, even death. It is a quality of character that is…Read more
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65First democracy: the challenge of an ancient ideaOxford University Press. 2005.Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote, if the majority rules, if you have elected representatives--does this automatically mean that you have a democracy? In this eye-opening look at an ideal that we all take for granted, classical scholar Paul Woodruff offers some surprising answers to these questions. Drawing on classical literature, philosophy, and history--with ma…Read more
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50Early Greek political thought from Homer to the sophists (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1995.This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors. There is a particular emphasis on the sophists, with the inclusion of all of their significant surviving texts, and the works of Alcidamas, Antisthenes and the 'Old Oligarch' are also represented. In addition there are excerpts from early poets such as Homer, Hesiod and Solon, the three great tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the historians Herodotus and Thucydides, medica…Read more
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55The SophistsIn Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.This article shows that important questions remain to be answered about the topics the sophists studied and taught, and their views, both positive and negative, about truth, religion, and convention. The sophists are united more by common methods and attitudes than by common interests. All sophists, for example, challenged traditional thinking, often in ways that went far beyond questioning the existence of the gods, or the truth of traditional myths, or customary moral rules, all of which had b…Read more