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    The Rejection of Consequentialism (review)
    Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 31 525-528. 1986.
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    Vom Gesichtspunkt Der PhäNomenologie Ii, by Rudolf Boehm
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 15 (2): 203-205. 1984.
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    The Great Chain of Being and it Alian Phenomenology, edited by Angela Ales Bello
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 13 (2): 202-203. 1982.
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    The Nature and Origin of Ideas: The Controversy over Innate Ideas Reconsidered
    International 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
  • Plato’s Statesman (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 36 (1): 272-273. 2004.
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    The War on Terrorism: Its Justification and Limits
    In Georg Meggle, Andreas Kemmerling & Mark Textor (eds.), Ethics of Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism, De Gruyter. pp. 197-206. 2004.
  • 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
  • Deus E Sócrates Sobre Os Males Do Governo
    Hypnos. 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
  • Autonomous Morality and the Idea of the Noble
    Interpretation 14 (2/3): 353-370. 1986.
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    The great ethics of Aristotle
    Transaction 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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    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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    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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    Susan D. Collins, Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship (review)
    Philosophical Inquiry 29 (1-2): 176-179. 2007.
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    Essays 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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    Liberalism, state, and community
    Critical 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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    Community in a new libertarianism: Rejoinder to Legutko
    Critical 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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    Transcending justice: Pope John Paul II and just war
    Journal 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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    Religion and Contemporary Liberalism (review)
    Faith and Philosophy 16 (2): 264-269. 1999.
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    Practical Knowing
    Modern Schoolman 67 (2): 111-122. 1990.
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    Aristotle's idea of the self
    Journal of Value Inquiry 35 (3): 309-324. 2001.
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    St. Thomas on the Naturalistic Fallacy
    The Thomist 51 (1): 51-69. 1987.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ST. THOMAS ON THE NATURALISTIC FALLACY Introduction HE PROBLEM OF THE naturalistic fallacy, or the laim that value and ought-judgments are not factual r 'is' judgments, has been a lively one this century, ever since Moore coined the term ' naturalistic fallacy '.1 This debate has died down rather, especially in analytic philosophy, but it has flared up again among students of St. Thomas. This is largely because of the controversial i…Read more
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    Contemporary Virtue Ethics and Aristotle
    Review 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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    Just War Theory and the IRA
    Journal 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