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36C. J. Rowe: Plato. (Philosophers in Context, 2.) Pp. viii + 228. Brighton: Harvester, 1984. £22.50The Classical Review 35 (02): 400-401. 1985.
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164Comments on John Doris’s Lack of Character (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (3). 2005.
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46Against the EthicistsPhilosophical Review 108 (1): 137. 1999.Sextus’s arguments against ethical theories are shorter and more general than those he brings against the other two parts of ancient philosophy, logic and physics. Until recently this part of his work, in Outlines of Pyrrhonism III and Adversus Mathematicos XI has been comparatively neglected. Now, as well as the splendidly scholarly book by Emidio Spinelli, Sesto Empirico: Contro Gli Etici we have Richard Bett’s translation with commentary in the Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers series. Bot…Read more
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167Applying Virtue to EthicsJournal of Applied Philosophy 32 (1): 1-14. 2014.Virtue ethics is sometimes taken to be incapable of providing guidance for an individual's actions, as some other ethical theories do. I show how virtue ethics does provide guidance for action, and also meet the objection that, while it may account for what we ought to do, it cannot account for the force of duty and obligation
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6Appendix: Hedonism in the protagorasIn Platonic Ethics, Old and New, Cornell University Press. pp. 167-172. 1999.
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1408An introduction to Plato's RepublicOxford University Press. 1981.This interpretive introduction provides unique insight into Plato's Republic. Stressing Plato's desire to stimulate philosophical thinking in his readers, Julia Annas here demonstrates the coherence of his main moral argument on the nature of justice, and expounds related concepts of education, human motivation, knowledge and understanding. In a clear systematic fashion, this book shows that modern moral philosophy still has much to learn from Plato's attempt to move the focus from questions of …Read more
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132The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern InterpretationsCambridge University Press. 1985.The Modes of Scepticism is one of the most important and influential of all ancient philosophical texts. The texts made an enormous impact on Western thought when they were rediscovered in the 16th century and they have shaped the whole future course of Western philosophy. Despite their importance, the Modes have been little discussed in recent times. This book translates the texts and supplies them with a discursive commentary, concentrating on philosophical issues but also including historical…Read more
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11Cicero on stoic moral philosophy and private propertyIn Miriam Tamara Griffin & Jonathan Barnes (eds.), Philosophia Togata: Essays on Philosophy and Roman Society, Oxford University Press. pp. 151-173. 1989.
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491Being Virtuous and Doing the Right ThingProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78 (2). 2003.It is sometimes argued that virtue ethics is incapable of 'telling us what to do'. I explore what this could mean, and come to the conclusion that virtue ethics does enable this, in the only sense in which it is something which we would reasonably want in an ethical theory.
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25Voices of ancient philosophy: an introductory readerOxford University Press. 2001.Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader is a unique and accessible introduction to the richness of ancient philosophy. Featuring a topical--as opposed to chronological--organization, this text introduces students to the wide range of approaches and traditions in ancient philosophy. In each section Annas presents the ancient debates on a particular philosophical topic, drawing on a greater diversity of ancient sources than a c…Read more
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40The Morality of HappinessOxford University Press. 1993.In this book I look at the tradition of eudaimonistic ethics which stems from Aristotle's treatment of ethics, and which takes distinct, though related forms in Epicurus, the Stoics and the Sceptics. I look at this tradition from different points of view: how is it related to human nature, how does it account for other-related virtue and action, and how much does it require in terms of revising previously held priorities. I discuss the methodology of discussing ancient texts in ways that relate …Read more
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45An Introduction to Plato's RepublicOxford U.P.. 1981.The book provides a commentary on Plato's Republic which encourages the reader to be stimulated to philosophical thinking by Plato's wide-ranging discussions.
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641The morality of happinessOxford University Press. 1993.Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics--and to do this we need to examine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory, not just the details of one or two theories. In this book, Annas brings together the results of a wide-ranging study of ancient ethical philosophy and presents it in a way that is easily accessible to …Read more
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118Platonic ethics, old and newCornell University Press. 1999.Offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought, highlighting the differences between ancient & modern assumptions & stressing the need to be ...
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104Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1994.Outlines of Scepticism, by the Greek philosopher Sextus Empiricus, is a work of major importance for the history of Greek philosophy. It is the fullest extant account of ancient scepticism, and it is also one of our most copious sources of information about the other Hellenistic philosophies. Its first part contains an elaborate exposition of the Pyrrhonian variety of scepticism; its second and third parts are critical and destructive, arguing against 'dogmatism' in logic, epistemology, science …Read more
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39Virtue and Action: Selected Papers (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.This volume brings together a selection of Rosalind Hursthouse’s essays on Aristotle, virtue ethics, and social philosophy. These articles—many of which are published in more obscure venues—provide valuable context and clarification for much of her more famous work on virtue ethics while drawing attention to new avenues of philosophical investigation Hursthouse pursued. Important contributions include articles on the development of virtue in children, what the Aristotelian practically wise perso…Read more
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1Ought' in Aristotle's Nicomachean EthicsIn David Owen Brink, Susan Sauvé Meyer & Christopher John Shields (eds.), Virtue, happiness, knowledge: themes from the work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin, Oxford University Press. 2018.It is sometimes argued that Aristotle has no distinctive way of making deontic claims; some, however, argue that his ethics depends on deontic claims. In this article I survey all the uses in the Nicomachean Ethics of the deontic terms dei and chre, and also a grammatical form of the verb which is used to make deontic claims. I argue that the correct view of the place in Aristotle of deontic claims lies between the two familiar extremes. Aristotle does make deontic claims, but they are not indep…Read more