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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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38The 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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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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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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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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40Natural 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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24Hippias 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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18Socratic 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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