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127Contemporary Virtue Ethics and AristotleReview of Metaphysics 45 (3). 1992.MORAL PHILOSOPHY HAS LONG BEEN DOMINATED by two basic theories, Kantianism or deontology on the one hand, and utilitarianism or consequentialism on the other. Increasing dissatisfaction with these theories and their variants has led in recent years to the emergence of a different theory, the theory of virtue ethics. According to virtue ethics, what is primary for ethics is not, as deontologists and utilitarians hold, the judgment of acts or their consequences, but the judgment of agents. The goo…Read more
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29Just War Theory and the IRAJournal of Applied Philosophy 3 (1): 73-88. 1986.ABSTRACT The Irish Republican Army (IRA) sometimes claim that their violent actions are sanctioned by traditional just war doctrine. To what extent is this true? To answer this question it is necessary to have a clear grasp of the principles of just war and of the situation in Northern Ireland to which they are to be applied. This is done in the first sections, and it is then argued that just war sanctions some kinds of violence in Northern Ireland but only those of direct self‐defence. Violence…Read more
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33Wojtyla, Karol. Man in the Field of Responsibility (review)Review of Metaphysics 65 (4): 902-903. 2012.
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11Review of Serena Olsaretti (ed.), Desert and Justice (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (7). 2004.
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3Making the citizens good, Aristotle city and its contemporary relevancePhilosophical Forum 22 (2): 149-166. 1990.
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13A New Basis for Moral Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 41 (1): 152-154. 1987.As its title implies, this book is meant to give a new foundation to moral philosophy. In the sense meant, a foundation is a cognitive grounding. Lee is opposing the various non-naturalist 'volitionalisms' that have proved so influential in recent moral philosophy. The burden of her book is to show that the non-naturalist claim that there is no grounding for values in facts is unwarranted. This claim is due, she says, to positivism and empiricism and the associated contention that knowledge is o…Read more
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Encomium Gorgiae ou Górgias versus ParmênidesHypnos. Revista Do Centro de Estudos da Antiguidade 26 1-12. 2011.O tratado de Górgias sobre o nada é dividido por meio da prova de três teses diferentes: 1) que o nada é ou existe; 2) que mesmo que haja algo, não pode ser conhecido; 3) que mesmo que pudesse ser conhecido, não poderia ser comunicado a outrem. Estas teses são tão opostas a Parmênides quanto qualquer tese poderia sê-lo. O tratado de Górgias é uma proeza da polêmica antiparmenidiana. Sua dialética também é uma façanha ao reduzir algo ao absurdo, porque as premissas de que Górgias se utiliza para …Read more
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17Nature, Justice and Rights in Aristotle's "Politics"Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (4): 607-608. 1996.
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13The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis (review)Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 101 (1): 113-114. 2007.
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34Aristotle's Criticism of Socrates' Communism of Wives and ChildrenApeiron 24 (2): 99. 1991.Introduction Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato’s Republic and Laws in the second book of his Politics have appeared to most commentators to be signally unconvincing. They seem to miss the point, beg the question, distort the sense or focus on the merely trivial. As one translator has put it, Aristotle is ‘puzzlingly unsympathetic’, ‘obtuse’ and ‘rather perverse’ as a critic of Plato.1 But while many accept this judgement few draw attention to the implications. These criticisms are one of the…Read more
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30Common Sense Morality and Consequentialism (review)Review of Metaphysics 40 (4): 795-797. 1987.Professor Slote is one of many contemporary philosophers writing on consequentialism; he is also one of the more acute and perceptive. While not himself a consequentialist, he is clearly fascinated by it as a philosophical theory. This fascination has enabled him to analyse it more thoroughly even than its many supporters, and we are indebted to him, both in this book and in others, for several new and important insights into the character of that perennial and much-debated theory.
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