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40The Trial and Execution of Socrates: Sources and Controversies (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2001.Socrates is one of the most important yet enigmatic philosophers of all time; his fame has endured for centuries despite the fact that he never actually wrote anything. In 399 B.C.E., he was tried on the charge of impiety by the citizens of Athens, convicted by a jury, and sentenced to death. About these facts there is no disagreement. However, as the sources collected in this book and the scholarly essays that follow them show, several of even the most basic facts about these events were contro…Read more
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80Aristotle on Corrective JusticeThe Journal of Ethics 18 (3): 187-205. 2014.This paper argues against the view favored by many contemporary scholars that corrective justice in the Nicomachean Ethics is essentially compensatory and in favor of a bifunctional account according to which corrective justice aims at equalizing inequalities of both goods and evils resulting from various interactions between persons. Not only does the account defended in this paper better explain the broad array of examples Aristotle provides than does the standard interpretation, it also bette…Read more
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Socrates and His Daimonion: Correspondence among Gregory Vlastos, Thomas C. Brickhouse, Mark L. McPherran, and Nicholas D. Smith (review)In Nicholas D. Smith & Paul Woodruff (eds.), Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 176--204. 2000.
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21Socrates - (G.) Rudebusch Socrates. Pp. xvi +221. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley–Blackwell, 2009. Paper, £14.99, €18. ISBN: 978-1-4051-5086-6 (review)The Classical Review 61 (1): 55-56. 2011.
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24Book Review: Plato's Apology of Socrates: A Literary and Philosophical Study with a Running Commentary (review)American Journal of Philology 117 (3): 487-492. 1996.
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87Does Aristotle Have a Consistent Account of Vice?Review of Metaphysics 57 (1). 2003.HOW ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF VICE in Aristotle’s ethics? As many commentators have noted, it is by no means obvious that Aristotle’s scattered remarks about vice really add up to a coherent account. In several places Aristotle clearly assigns the leading role in the explanation of vicious action to reason. We see this, for example, in the unequivocal claim that acts expressing intemperance are “in accordance with choice”. This is important, in part because it provides a basis for t…Read more
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365The philosophy of SocratesWestview Press. 2000.This text provides an introduction to Socrates—both the charismatic, controversial historical figure and the essential Socratic philosophy. Written at a beginning level but incorporating recent scholarship, The Philosophy of Socrates offers numerous translations of pertinent passages. As they present these passages, Nicholas Smith and Thomas Brickhouse demonstrate why these passages are problematic, survey the interpretive and philosophical options, and conclude with brief defenses of their own …Read more
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33Roberts on Responsibility for Action and Character in the Nicomachean EthicsAncient Philosophy 11 (1): 137-148. 1991.
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