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38Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world. They discuss whether the concept of forgiveness, as it is often understood today, was absent, or at all events more restricted in scope than has been commonly supposed, and what related ideas may have taken the place of forgiveness. An introductory chapter reviews the conceptual territory of forgiveness and illuminate…Read more
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5Soul, Form, and Indeterminacy in Plato’s Philebus and PhaedrusProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 55 (n/a): 184-194. 1981.
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58Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 1988.Originally published by Routledge in 1988, this pioneering collection of essays now features a new preface and updated bibliography by the editor, reflecting the most significant developments in Plato scholarship during the past decade
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18Interpreting Plato (review)Review of Metaphysics 37 (1): 151-153. 1983.This book, which is dedicated by the late Eugene Tigerstedt to Harold Cherniss, has not received the attention it deserves. It is a comprehensive survey of the history of the interpretation of Plato, or more accurately, of the history of the various frameworks assumed in interpretations of Plato. The book is concerned not so much with interpretations of particular passages as with the basic presuppositions which inevitably guide and shape interpretations. The subject of the book is not only time…Read more
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44Reflections on ‘Dialectic’ in Plato and HegelInternational Philosophical Quarterly 22 (3): 115-130. 1982.
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9Hiroshi Mizuta and Chuhei Sugiyama, eds., Adam Smith: International PerspectivesJournal of the History of Philosophy 35 (4): 629-631. 1997.
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30Science and the Sciences in Plato (review)Review of Metaphysics 36 (2): 441-442. 1982.Almost everyone believes that the sciences have progressed tremendously since antiquity. It thus seems that only devout classicists would bother with the study of ancient science, not to mention with the study of ancient science as transfigured by characters in a Platonic dialogue. However, this transfiguration already mitigates the charge of irrelevance. For what may be true of empirical science is not necessarily true of the philosophy of science. Many of the same problems which preoccupy cont…Read more
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12Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical EncounterRoutledge. 2017.Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought. The heated controversy provoked by their competing visions of human nature and society still resonates today. Smith himself reviewed Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, and his perceptive remarks raise an intriguing question: what would a conversation between these two great thinkers look like? In this outstanding book Charles Griswold analyses, compares and evaluates some of the key ways in which Rousseau and Smith a…Read more
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62Relying on Your Own VoiceReview of Metaphysics 53 (2): 283-307. 1999.PLATO’S Protagoras is composed of three distinct frames. The outer frame consists in Socrates’ brief discussion with an unnamed companion. The remainder of the Protagoras is willingly narrated by Socrates to the companion, from memory of course, and apparently right after the main action. The inner frame consists in Socrates’ dialogue with Hippocrates. Roused before dawn by the impetuous young man, Socrates leads Hippocrates to reflect on the wisdom of his enthusiastic desire to study with Prota…Read more
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50Soul, Form, and Indeterminacy in Plato’s Philebus and PhaedrusProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 55 (n/a): 184-194. 1981.
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108Self-Knowledge in Plato's PhaedrusPennsylvania State University Press. 1986.In this award-winning study of the _Phaedrus_, Charles Griswold focuses on the theme of "self-knowledge." Relying on the principle that form and content are equally important to the dialogue's meaning, Griswold shows how the concept of self-knowledge unifies the profusion of issues set forth by Plato. Included are a new preface and an updated comprehensive bibliography of works on the _Phaedrus_
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Commentary on Sayre's 'Why Plato Never Had a Theory of Forms.'”Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 9 200-12. 1993.
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2Platonic liberalism : Self-perfection as a foundation of platonic political theoryIn Stanley Rosen & Nalin Ranasinghe (eds.), Logos and Eros: Essays Honoring Stanley Rosen, St. Augustine's Press. 2006.
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38Platon. Phèdre (suivi de La Pharmacie de Platon de Jacques Derrida), and: Plato. Phaedrus (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 29 (3): 481-483. 1991.
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57Genealogical narrative and self-knowledge in Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among MenHistory of European Ideas 42 (2). 2016.SUMMARYWhy did Rousseau cast the substance of the Second Discourse in the form of a genealogy? In this essay the author attempts to work out the relation between the literary form of the Discourse's two main parts and the content. A key thesis of Rousseau's text concerns our lack of self-knowledge, indeed, our ignorance of our ignorance. The author argues that in a number of ways genealogical narrative is meant to respond to that lack. In the course of his discussion he comments on Rousseau's pu…Read more
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85The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall: Philosophical Thoughts on Political IconographyCritical Inquiry 12 (4): 688-719. 1986.My reflections on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were provoked some time ago in a quite natural way, by a visit to the memorial itself. I happened upon it almost by accident, a fact that is due at least in part to the design of the Memorial itself . I found myself reduced to awed silence, and I resolved to attend the dedication ceremony on November 13, 1982. It was an extraordinary event, without question the most moving public ceremony I have ever attended. But my own experience of the Memorial …Read more
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