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2Emerson on Socrates and the Tyranny of the MajorityThe 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
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2The Politics of Socratic Humor. By John Lombardini (review)Ancient Philosophy 40 (1): 209-211. 2020.
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7Plato’s Symposium: A Critical Guide by Pierre Destrée, Zina GiannopoulouJournal 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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6The Teleology of Action in Plato's RepublicOxford University Press. 2017.This book explores a variety of teleology present in Plato's Republic, in which actions are carried out for the sake of an end that is not the intended goal. Payne draws on examples from Republic to demonstrate that performing some actions can help produce unintended results, which qualify as ends or purposes of human action.
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Eros and Practical Reason in the "Symposium"Dissertation, University of Notre Dame. 1998.This dissertation presents Plato's distinctive approach in the Symposium to topics normally associated with Aristotelian ethics: practical reason, friendship, the theoretic life, and the ranking of the lives associated with political activity and philosophy. After an introductory chapter I focus on Diotima's speech in chapters 2 through 6. Eros appears as a species of desire, one that lacks its object, is self-interested, and can generate action. In addition to these basic characteristics common…Read more
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5The Rhetoric of Plato’s Republic: Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of PersuasionAncient Philosophy 37 (2): 446-448. 2017.
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10The Division of Goods and Praising Justice for Itself in Republic IIPhronesis 56 (1): 58-78. 2011.In Republic II Glaucon assigns to Socrates the task of praising justice for itself. What it means to praise justice for itself is unclear. A new interpretation is offered on the basis of an analysis of Glaucon's division of goods. A distinction is developed between criterial benefits, those valuable consequences of a thing which provide a standard for evaluating a thing as a good instance of its type, and fringe benefits, valuable consequences which do not provide such a standard. Socrates is ex…Read more
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