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6Book review: Reflections on Aristotle’s Politics, written by Mogens Herman Hansen (review)Polis 31 (2): 450-451. 2014.
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7Vom Gesichtspunkt Der PhäNomenologie Ii, by Rudolf BoehmJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 15 (2): 203-205. 1984.
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3The Great Chain of Being and it Alian Phenomenology, edited by Angela Ales BelloJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 13 (2): 202-203. 1982.
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8The Nature and Origin of Ideas: The Controversy over Innate Ideas ReconsideredInternational Philosophical Quarterly 25 (1): 15-30. 1985.Locke and descartes only disagree about innate knowledge because they both accept the principle that knowledge that comes through the senses is sensible knowledge or reducible to such knowledge. Other philosophers from berkeley to wittgenstein share the same principle. This principle is rejected by aristotle and the aristotelian tradition; consequently aristotle is able to give a more convincing account of knowledge and its acquisition. A summary of this account is given and defended
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1The War on Terrorism: Its Justification and LimitsIn Georg Meggle, Andreas Kemmerling & Mark Textor (eds.), Ethics of Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism, De Gruyter. pp. 197-206. 2004.
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Morals as Founded on Natural Law by Stephen Theron (review)The Thomist 53 (2): 341-342. 1989.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:BOOK REVIEWS 841 message may seem, however clearly at odds with the Weltgeist. What Professor Mitchell's position calls for-to the delight I am sure, of Fr. Copleston-is a universal, unified, sanctificatory, and legitimate teacher of the Christian message: a Church which is one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. NICHOLAS INGHAM, O.P. Providence College Providence, Rhode Island Morals as Founded on Natural Law. By STEPHEN THERON. Europea…Read more
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THORP, J.: "Free Will, A Defence Against Neurophysiological Determinism" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 60 (n/a): 374. 1982.
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Deus E Sócrates Sobre Os Males Do GovernoHypnos. Revista Do Centro de Estudos da Antiguidade 15 13-24. 2005.Velho Testamento Deus expressa, através do profeta Samuel, idéias sobre o governo humano, similares às de Sócrates na República de Platão. Ambos defendem que a melhor organização política é aquela na qual nenhuma pessoa ou classe domina, mas aquela onde cada um rege a si mesmo através de um princípio interno de justiça. Uma “anarquia” justa deste tipo não é apenas a melhor, mas também possível de ser alcançada. Ao menos em certos períodos os filhos de Israel a obtiveram. Deveríamos imitá-los.In …Read more
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8The great ethics of AristotleTransaction Publishers. 2014.In this follow up to The Eudemian Ethics of Aristotle, Peter L. P. Simpson centers his attention on the basics of Aristotelian moral doctrine as found in the Great Ethics: the definition of happiness, the nature and kind of the virtues, pleasure, and friendship. This work's authenticity is disputed, but Simpson argues that all the evidence favors it. Unlike the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics, Aristotle wrote the Great Ethics for a popular audience. It gives us insight less into Aristotle the th…Read more
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8Aristotle's ethica eudemia 1220b10–11 ἐν τοῖς ἀπηλλαγμένοις and de virtutibus et vitiisClassical Quarterly 63 (2): 651-659. 2013.Aristotle's Ethica Eudemia Book 2 Chapter 2 contains, at lines 1220b10–11, a well-known crux in the phrase ἐν τοῖς ἀπηλλαγμένοις. The context makes clear that Aristotle is using this phrase to refer to some writing or other, but scholars have been puzzled both about what the phrase means and what writing it refers to.
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8On emending and not emending the text of some passages in Aristotle's ethica eudemiaClassical Quarterly 63 (2): 660-679. 2013.The text of Aristotle'sEthica Eudemia is often in need of emendation, especially because of the particular fault in the manuscripts of misreading one letter for another or misdividing letters to form words. Scholars have already done fine work in correcting many of these errors, but more needs to be done. A second problem with the text does not have to do with matters of spelling or grammar, but rather with those of philosophical sense. For, as scholars have noted, theEEis marked by considerable…Read more
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2Susan D. Collins, Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship (review)Philosophical Inquiry 29 (1-2): 176-179. 2007.
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2Essays on the Foundations of Aristotelian Political Science (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (1): 156-157. 1993.This book consists of an introduction by Carnes Lord and nine essays: Stephen Salkever on Aristotle's social science; Cames Lord on Aristotle's anthropology; Abram Shulsky on Aristotle's economics; Josiah Ober on Aristotle's sociology of class, status, and Order; David O'Connor on Aristotle's conception of justice; Stephen Salkever on Plato and Aristotle on women, soldiers, and citizens; Waller Newell on Aristotle on monarchy; Barry Strauss on Aristotle on Athenian democracy; and Richard Bodéus …Read more
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10Liberalism, state, and communityCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 8 (2): 159-173. 1994.Arguments for and against liberalism are vitiated by failing to distinguish between states (which have millions of citizens) and communities (which have only a few thousand citizens). The state should be liberal or minimal, but the community should not. The state is an alliance of communities for mutual defense and is concerned with matters of defense alone. Two reasons are given for this conclusion, one from Aristotle and one from Hobbes (though Hobbes's argument has to be corrected in two impo…Read more
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13Community in a new libertarianism: Rejoinder to LegutkoCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 9 (3): 427-429. 1995.Proper criticism requires proper targeting. Legutko argues that libertarianism destroys communities and that my theory, which combines libertarianism with communitarianism, must therefore be wrong. But the libertarianism Legutko criticizes is not the same as the libertarianism for which I argue. He has therefore done nothing to show that my combination of libertarianism and communitarianism is impossible, whether in theory or in practice
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10On the text of some disputed passages in Aristotle's ethica eudemiaClassical Quarterly 62 (2): 541-552. 2012.
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7Transcending justice: Pope John Paul II and just warJournal of Religious Ethics 39 (2): 286-298. 2011.Pope John Paul II's opposition to the Iraq War was not that it failed to meet the conditions of Just War Theory. Indeed, we cannot tell from what he publicly said whether he thought it met those conditions or not, for he would have opposed it in any case. His thinking was rather that even just and necessary wars always come, as it were, too late, and are never able to solve the problems that made wars just and necessary. He was not trying therefore to enter into the details of Just War Theory. H…Read more
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5Common 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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1Review of Paul Bloomfield, Moral Reality (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (4). 2002.
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10Human Rights. Fact or Fancy? (review)Review of Metaphysics 40 (3): 601-603. 1987.Veatch's theme in this book is natural law as a basis for rights. He wishes to defend the classical notion that the good and the right, in ethics, politics and the law, can be found by some appeal to nature. In the first chapter of the book he directs arguments against the standard anti-natural law positions in philosophy, and against particular philosophers, like Hobbes and Kant. This is the least effective chapter in the book. The criticisms are not so much wrong as a bit weak and lacking in p…Read more
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