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38Natural 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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23Hippias Minor—or—The Art of Cunning: A New Translation of Plato’s Most Controversial DialogueInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 9 (2): 221-224. 2015.
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16Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy, and: The Philosophy of Socrates (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (1): 137-139. 2001.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 39.1 (2001) 137-139 [Access article in PDF] Gareth B. Matthews. Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 137. Cloth, $29.95 Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith. The Philosophy of Socrates. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. Pp. x + 290. Paper $22.00. Matthews' little book tracks the course of Socrates' perplexity, which, Matthews contend…Read more
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87Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato's MenoLexington Books. 2001.One of very few monographs devoted to Plato's Meno, this study emphasizes the interplay between its protagonists, Socrates and Meno. It interprets the Meno as Socrates' attempt to persuade his interlocutor, by every device at his disposal, of the value of moral inquiry—even though it fails to yield full-blown knowledge—and to encourage him to engage in such inquiry, insofar as it alone makes human life worth living.
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12The Moral and Social Dimensions of GratitudeSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (4): 491-501. 2010.
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52Killing, Confiscating, and Banishing at Gorgias 466-468Ancient Philosophy 12 (2): 299-315. 1992.
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7Ο 'Αγαθός As ΌΔυνατός in the Hippias MinorClassical Quarterly 31 (2): 287-304. 1981.This paper is an attempt so to construe the arguments of the Hippias Minor as to remove the justification for regarding it as unworthy of Plato either because of its alleged fallaciousness and Sophistic mode of argument or because of its alleged immorality. It focuses, therefore, only on the arguments and their conclusions, steering clear of the dialogue's dramatic and literary aspects. Whereas I do not wish to deny the importance of these aspects to a proper understanding of the dialogue – on t…Read more
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13Saadiah on Divine Grace and Human SufferingJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 9 (2): 155-171. 2000.
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