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118Plato and Computer Dating: A Discussion of Gerard R. Ledger, Re-Counting Plato: A Computer Analysis of Plato’s Style, and Leonard Brandwood, The Chronology of Plato’s DialoguesOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 12 227-50. 1994.
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24Aristotle: Politics, Books I and IIPhilosophical Review 109 (1): 87-88. 2000.The volumes in the Clarendon Aristotle Series seek to meet the needs of philosophically inclined readers who do not know Greek by providing accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts accompanied by philosophical commentaries. To these ends, Trevor Saunders’s welcome addition to the series, a treatment of the first two books of Aristotle’s Politics, provides a number of useful tools. First there is a new translation of books I and II. Saunders numbers the paragraphs of the translation a…Read more
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25The Foundations of Socratic EthicsPhilosophical Review 105 (2): 233. 1996.Self-interest theories hold that rationality requires one always to choose what is best for oneself. Where these theories differ is in their accounts of what is best for one. Hedonism is a typical self-interest theory, distinguished from other versions by the claim that what is best for one is what gives one the greatest net balance of pleasure over pain. Gómez-Lobo thinks that Socrates is a self-interest theorist: Socrates believes that “a choice is rational if and only if it is a choice of wha…Read more
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