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2MORALITY IN TRAGEDY - Lawrence Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy. Pp. x + 335. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Paper, £25, US$65 . ISBN: 978-0-19-965976-0 (review)The Classical Review 64 (2): 354-355. 2014.
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5Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy: Perspectives and Reverberations (edited book)Bloomsbury. 2018.Both Ancient Chinese and Greek philosophers provide accounts of the life lived well: a Confucian junzi, a Daoist sage and a Greek phronimos. Cultivation in Early China and Ancient Greece engages in comparative, cross-tradition scholarship and investigates the processes associated with cultivating or nurturing the self in order to live such lives. By focusing on the processes rather than the aims of cultivating a good life, an international team of scholars investigate how a person develops and …Read more
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3Reflections on Plato's Poetics (edited book)Academic Printing and Publishing. 2016.Reflections on Plato's Poetics presents the reflections of leading scholars from China and the West on the form, nature and significance of Plato's engagement with poetry. The book does not adopt any monolithic point of view about Plato and poetry. Instead it openly explores Plato's attitudes to poetry, both comprehensively and within the intricate confines of particular dialogues. These reflections reveal a Plato who is deeply influenced by poetry; a Plato who writes, at least very often, from …Read more
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Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages (review)Literature and Aesthetics 4 125-128. 1994.
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24Parmenides: Being, Bounds and Logic by Scott Austin (review)Review of Metaphysics 40 (3): 562-563. 1987.This book is a significant addition to studies of Parmenides and the foundation of Greek philosophy, with interesting implications for subsequent Western metaphysics. Within carefully drawn limits, Austin conducts a rigorous analysis of Parmenides' poem that is both creative and forceful. The resultant insights into Parmenidean logic, ontology and method cannot easily be discounted. Austin claims that Parmenides uses a consciously systematic and exhaustive method to describe being. Thus, he argu…Read more
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1Love’s Comedy: Aristophanes’ Speech in the SymposiumProceedings of the Russellian Society 18 67-72. 1993.
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Paul Weiss, Metaphysics and the Problem of InductionIn Paul Weiss & Lewis Edwin Hahn (eds.), The Philosophy of Paul Weiss, Library of Living Philosophers. pp. 459-471. 1995.
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Aristotle and Non-Scientific DeliberationProceedings of the Australasian Society for the History of Philosophy 3 121-143. 1996.
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La classification des sciencesIn Monique Dixsaut & Fulcran Teisserenc (eds.), La Fãelure du Plaisir 'Etudes Sur le Philáebe de Platon', J. Vrin. pp. 337-364. 1999.
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2Cowardice, Moral Philosophy and Saying what you ThinkIn Hayden W. Ausland, Eugenio Benitez, Ruby Blondell, Lloyd P. Gerson, Francisco J. Gonzalez, J. J. Mulhern, Debra Nails, Erik Ostenfeld, Gerald A. Press, Gary Alan Scott, P. Christopher Smith, Harold Tarrant, Holger Thesleff, Joanne Waugh, William A. Welton & Elinor J. M. West (eds.), Who Speaks for Plato?: Studies in Platonic Anonymity, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 83-98. 2000.
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3Kant, Pessoa, Plato: Three Approaches to TransculturalityIn G. Marchianò & R. Milani (eds.), Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics, Trauben Edizione. pp. 35-50. 2001.
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"The Death of Agamemnon" Original translation from Aeschylus' Agamemnon, ll. 855-1398.Literature and Aesthetics 12 125-141. 2002.
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1The Aesthetics of Piety West and East: Plato and ConfuciusInternational Yearbook of Aesthetics 7. 2003.
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14Ethics and Communication: The Cassandra Dialogue in Aeschylus' AgamemnonModern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) 12 334-346. 2004.
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6Tolstoy and the Communication of Aesthetic FeelingLiterature and Aesthetics 15 (2): 167-176. 2005.Once upon a time, a scholar, ascetic and relig-ious man named Abu Hamid Ibn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Tusi al-Shafi'i al-Ghazali (AI-Ghazali, 1058-11 II) wrote a worl, called The Incoherence qf the Philosophers, 1\ clever philosopher, Abu AI-\Valid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Hushd (Averroes, 112li-1 ID8), responded to this by writing The IlIcolurence (!l the Inroherence. In IVhat is Art;;, Tolstoy refers to the importance of art in order to ridicule itl He notes the attention paid to art, music, thea…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |