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14European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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14Suicide; A Statement of SufferingNursing Ethics 5 (1): 3-15. 1998.This article is designed to focus on the provision of nursing care in general medical wards following the admission of persons who have attempted suicide or who have a previous history of attempting suicide. The authors explore, analyse and synthesize how nurses, as key players in the health care team, may begin by recognizing the uniqueness of the individual, and by cotravelling therapeutically with the person on part of his or her journey towards recovery and healing. Efforts are made to demon…Read more
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14A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought (edited book)University of California Press. 2011.Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of individual choice, and self-enslavement due to incorrect choice. Anchoring his discussion in Stoicism, Frede begins with Aristotle--who, he argues, had no notion of a free will--and ends with Aug…Read more
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137 Roman philosophyIn David Sedley (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 184. 2003.
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11Suicide: a statement of sufferingNursing Ethics 5 (1): 3-15. 1998.This article is designed to focus on the provision of nursing care in general medical wards following the admission of persons who have attempted suicide or who have a previous history of attempting suicide. The authors explore, analyse and synthesize how nurses, as key players in the health care team, may begin by recognizing the uniqueness of the individual, and by cotravelling therapeutically with the person on part of his or her journey towards recovery and healing. Efforts are made to demon…Read more
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7How Does Socrates' Divine Sign Communicate with Him?In Sara Ahbel‐Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates, Blackwell. 2005.
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6Plotinus Ennead II.4 On matter: translation with an introduction and commentaryParmenides Publishing. 2022.A new translation, with an introduction and philosophical commentary, of Plotinus' Ennead II.4 On Matter, discussing the philosopher's view on intelligible beings and the nature of the physical world.
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4Plato and Hellenistic PhilosophyIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Orientation Plato in Stoicism Plato in Academic Scepticism Plato in early Pyrrhonism Plato in Epicureanism Conclusion.
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2Seneca on the self : why now?In Shadi Bartsch & David Wray (eds.), Seneca and the self, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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2Review: Philo of Larissa. The Last of the Academic Sceptics (review)The Classical Review 53 (2): 314-316. 2003.
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1Platonic Ethics: A Critical Notice of Julia Annas, Platonic Ethics Old and NewOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 19 339-357. 2000.
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Stoic PsychologyIn Malcolm Schofield, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld & Keimpe Algra (eds.), Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 560-584. 1999.
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In and out of the stoa: Diogenes Laertius on ZenoIn Jenny Bryan, Robert Wardy & James Warren (eds.), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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Platonic Ethics. A Critical Note of Julia Annas, Platonic Ethics Old and NewIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xix Winter 2000, Clarendon Press. 2000.
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