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44Plotinus on self: The philosophy of the 'we' (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (2). 2010.Plotinus's theory of dual selfhood is one of the best-known and most puzzling aspects of his philosophy. Each human being, he held, is both a compound of body and soul and a discarnate member of the hypostasis Intellect. He built evaluative norms into this duality, all of which derive from what he argued to be the ontological superiority of the discarnate element in us over the body-soul compound. This led him, in turn, to claim that the best and happiest human life is a life of self-purificatio…Read more
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33Penner (T.), Rowe (C.) Plato's Lysis. Pp. xiv + 366. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Cased, £55, US$95. ISBN: 978-0-521-79130- (review)The Classical Review 58 (1): 64-66. 2008.
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18Plotinian Studies in the Anglophone WorldInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 12 (2): 163-177. 2018.
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127On interpreting Plato's IonPhronesis 49 (2): 169-201. 2004.Plato's "Ion," despite its frail frame and traditionally modest status in the corpus, has given rise to large exegetical claims. Thus some historians of aesthetics, reading it alongside page 205 of the Symposium, have sought to identify in it the seeds of the post-Kantian notion of 'art' as non-technical making, and to trace to it the Romantic conception of the poet as a creative genius. Others have argued that, in the "Ion," Plato has Socrates assume the existence of a technē of poetry. In this…Read more
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4Introductions Aux Dialogues De Platon (1804–1828) Et Leçons D'Histoire De La Philosophie (1819–1823), Suivies Des Textes De Friedrich Schlegel Relatifs À Platon, by F.D.E. Schleiermacher (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 38 (2): 221-223. 2007.
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68Le Principe Du Beau Chez Plotin: Réflexions sur Enneas VI.7.32 et 33Phronesis 45 (1): 38-63. 2000.The status of beauty in Plotinus' metaphysics is unclear: is it a Form in Intellect, the Intelligible Principle itself, or the One? Basing themselves on a number of well-known passages in the "Enneads," and assuming that Plotinus' Forms are similar in function and status to Plato's, many scholars hold that Plotinus theorized beauty as a determinate entity in Intellect. Such assumptions, it is here argued, lead to difficulties over self-predication, the interpretation of Plotinus's rich and varie…Read more
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16Le rôle du concept d'intention dans la formation du jugement esthétiqueRevue Philosophique De Louvain 83 (2): 197-213. 1985.
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29La théorie Des présuppositions absolues chez R. G. CollingwoodLes Etudes Philosophiques. forthcoming.
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J. F. Malherbe, "la Philosophie De Karl Popper Et Le Positivisme Logique" (review)Revue Internationale de Philosophie 33 (4): 883. 1979.
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Manfred RIEDEL, "Rehabilitierung der praktischen Philosophie" (review)Revue Internationale de Philosophie 29 (1): 187. 1975.
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58Dual Selfhood and Self-Perfection in the EnneadsEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2): 331-345. 2009.Plotinus’s theory of dual selfhood has ethical norms built into it, all of which derive from the ontological superiority of the higher (or undescended) soul in us overthe body-soul compound. The moral life, as it is presented in the Enneads, is a life of self-perfection, devoted to the care of the higher self. Such a conception of morality is prone to strike modern readers as either ‘egoistic’ or unduly austere. If there is no doubt that Plotinus’s ethics is exceptionally austere, it will be arg…Read more
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14Introductions Aux Dialogues De Platon Et Leçons D'Histoire De La Philosophie , Suivies Des Textes De Friedrich Schlegel Relatifs À Platon, by F.D.E. Schleiermacher (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 38 (2): 221-223. 2007.
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50Epicurus and FriendshipDialogue 28 (2): 275-. 1989.Ever since classical times, both Greek and Roman, friendship as a philosophical topic has been on the wane. The only notable exception is Montaigne's essay which, however, owes much to classical treatments. This decline of philosophical interest in friendship is not easy to account for. Alasdair McIntyre's overall thesis in After Virtue seemingly affords him with a ready interpretation. The progressive atomization of society, together with the concurrent growth of individualism that characterize…Read more
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38Hesiod's Proem And Plato's IonClassical Quarterly 64 (1): 25-42. 2014.Plato's Hesiod is a neglected topic, scholars having long regarded Plato's Homer as a more promising field of inquiry. My aim in this chapter is to demonstrate that this particular bias of scholarly attention, although understandable, is unjustified. Of no other dialogue is this truer than of the Ion
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24Comment on A.-M. Schultz' Socrates and Socrates: 'Looking back to Bring Philosophy Forward'Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 30 (1): 142-155. 2015.The paper, although polemical for the most part, also presents a substantive thesis. The polemical part is directed at the claim that the Platonic Socrates held that philosophy as a practice is to be devoted to the care of self and others, and that the expression of emotion is an important aspect of the philosophic life. To undermine that claim, counter-examples from the autobiographical narrative in the Phaedo and the speeches of Diotima and Alcibiades in the Symposium are brought in. Once anal…Read more
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David HUME, "Les Essais esthétiques", 1er partie: "Art et Société", 2e partie: "Art et Psychologie"; Traduction de Renée Bouveresse (review)Revue Internationale de Philosophie 29 (1/2=111/112): 187. 1975.
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24Colloquium 5: Consciousness and Introspection in Plotinus and AugustineProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 22 (1): 145-183. 2007.
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15Collingwood: Science Versus Ethicsder 16. Weltkongress Für Philosophie 2 1282-1289. 1983.Is scientific reasoning the standard of rationality? Can historical explanation be reduced to the scientific mode of reasoning? R.G. Collingwood answered both questions negatively. He further attempted to show that the types of justification used to account for moral actions are closely similar to historical explanations. His ethics has thus a strong historicist and relativistio flavour. Hie aim of my paper is to state Collingwood's ethical views and to show that the "ethical judgment", which in…Read more
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1Diana Fritz Cates, Choosing to Feel: Virtue, Friendship, and Compassion for Friends Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (6): 404-405. 1998.
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19Consciousness and Introspection in Plotinus and AugustineProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 22 145-174. 2006.
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19Colloquium 5 Commentary on SchultzProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 30 (1): 142-155. 2015.The paper, although polemical for the most part, also presents a substantive thesis. The polemical part is directed at the claim that the Platonic Socrates held that philosophy as a practice is to be devoted to the care of self and others, and that the expression of emotion is an important aspect of the philosophic life. To undermine that claim, counter-examples from the autobiographical narrative in the Phaedo and the speeches of Diotima and Alcibiades in the Symposium are brought in. Once anal…Read more
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16The personality and the writings of Marsilio Ficino mark the turning point from the middleages to the Renaissance. In John Marenbon’s apt description, medieval philosophy is ‘the story of a complex tradition founded in Neoplatonism, but not simply as a continuation or development of Neoplatonism itself’. ‘Not simply’ because the Enneads, the first and finest flowering of that tradition, testify to Plotinus’ deep engagement, not only with the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and the Middle…Read more