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    A new account of thick concepts
    Journal of Value Inquiry 39 (1): 89-103. 2005.
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    Plato’s Symposium: A Critical Guide by Pierre Destrée, Zina Giannopoulou
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (1): 159-160. 2019.
    Plato’s Symposium offers an enticing range of topics for the critical-guide treatment of philosophical classics now in vogue. The current volume contains thirteen essays of consistently high quality devoted to such issues as the nature of erotic desire and its orientation toward the forms, the ethical question of how best to live in the pursuit of wisdom, Plato’s engagement with poetry, and his use of dramatic interaction between speakers to advance his philosophical agenda.An admirable feature …Read more
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    Science and Stonehenge
    with David A.
    . 1997.
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    Emerson on Socrates and the Tyranny of the Majority
    The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 10 203-207. 2007.
    Emerson's Representative Men reveals his awareness of the dangers of the tyranny of the majority and his admiration for figures of great genius. These trends of thought, which led Emerson's contemporaries Carlyle and Nietzsche to reject democracy, are combined in Emerson with support for democracy. To understand and justify Emerson's combination of fear of the tyranny of the majority, admiration for genius, and support for democracy, it is helpful to examine his portrait of Socrates in Represent…Read more