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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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48The 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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108Socrates 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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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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46The 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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22Hippias 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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84Virtue 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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51Killing, Confiscating, and Banishing at Gorgias 466-468Ancient Philosophy 12 (2): 299-315. 1992.
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