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64The moral and social dimensions of gratitudeSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (4): 491-501. 1985.
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11Philosophers in the Republic: Plato's two paradigmsCornell University Press. 2012.Roslyn Weiss offers a new interpretation of Platonic moral philosophy based on an unconventional reading of the Republic. Her basic argument begins with the point that Plato means for us to react badly to the philosopher-rulers of Book 7. She then makes the case that there are two distinct kinds of philosopher in the Republic--one that is ideal and one that is farcical--and that each represents a separate type of justice. Finally, she argues that Plato recognizes this dualism and points the way …Read more
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37The Socratic Paradox and its EnemiesUniversity of Chicago Press. 2006.In The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies, Roslyn Weiss argues that the Socratic paradoxes—no one does wrong willingly, virtue is knowledge, and all the virtues are one—are best understood as Socrates’ way of combating sophistic views: ...
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40A rejoinder to professors Gosling and TaylorJournal of the History of Philosophy 28 (1): 117-118. 1990.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A Rejoinder to Professors Gosling and Taylor Hedonism is for Socrates the radical view that pleasure is the standard according to which one ought to steer one's life, the view that pleasure represents the proper end of human existence. Hedonism is not for Socrates the weaker view that the good life is also the most pleasant. Were it not for the Protagoras, all would agree, I think, that Socrates does not regard pleasure as the highes…Read more
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6Wise Guys and Smart Alecks in Republic 1 and 2In G. R. F. Ferrari (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic, Cambridge University Press. pp. 90--115. 2007.
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36Colloquium 3: The Unjust Philosophers of Republic VIIProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 27 (1): 65-103. 2012.
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50The Meno (C.) Ionescu Plato's Meno. An Interpretation. Pp. xx + 194. Lanham, MD and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2007. Cased, US$65. ISBN: 978-0-7391-2025- (review)The Classical Review 59 (1): 60-. 2009.
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112Socrates Dissatisfied: An Analysis of Plato's CritoRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.In Socrates Dissatisfied, Weiss argues against the prevailing view that the personified Laws in the latter part of the Crito are Socrates' spokesmen. She reveals and explores many indications that Socrates and the Laws are, both in style and in substance, adversaries. Deft, provocative, and compelling, with new translations providing groundbreaking interpretations of key passages, Socrates Dissatisfied challenges the standard conception of the history of political thought.
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39Natural Order or Divine Will: Maimonides on Cosmogony and ProphecyJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 15 (1): 1-26. 2007.In Guide 2.32 Maimonides notes that just as there are three opinions concerning prophecy , so are there three opinions concerning cosmogony. Scholars have tended to assume that Maimonides, despite what he says, must have seen some more important correspondence between the two sets of opinions than their number. I argue that although for Maimonides what the two sets of opinions have in common is indeed their number, what he wishes to direct the careful reader's attention to is that the number of …Read more
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47The Hedonic Calculus in the Protagoras and the PhaedoJournal of the History of Philosophy 27 (4): 511-529. 1989.
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1Jorge JE Gracia and Jiyuan Yu, eds., Uses and Abuses of the Classics: Western Interpretations of Greek Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (4): 256-259. 2005.
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