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11The Socratic ElenchusIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Preliminaries Apology 21b9–23c1: The Origins of the Socratic Elenchus Inconsistency Does Socrates Cheat? Some Stabs at Explanations Concluding Remarks Note.
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11JusticeIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Preliminaries Universal vs. Particular Justice The Scope of Particular Justice Justice and the Doctrine of the Mean: The Problem Distributive and Corrective Justice Political Justice Pleonexia Justice and the Doctrine of the Mean: Aristotle's Solution Conclusion Bibliography.
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12CourageIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Courage and Self‐control The Object of Cheer Danger as the Object of Cheer Safety as the Object of Cheer Success as the Object of Cheer Horatius at the Bridge Acting for the Sake of the Fine When is Death Fine? Note Bibliography.
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4Review of Gregory Vlastos: Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher (review)Ethics 103 (4): 817-820. 1993.
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30William Thomas Jones: 1910- 1998Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (4): 699-699. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:William Thomas Jones 1910–1998Charles M. YoungWilliam Thomas Jones, a friend and supporter of this journal since its inception, died on September 30, 1998, in Claremont, California, at the age of eighty-eight. Born in Natchez, Mississippi, Will was educated at Swarthmore, Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar), and Princeton. After a legendary teaching career spanning nearly fifty years, thirty-four at Pomona College and another fifteen at the…Read more
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68Happy Lives and the Highest Good: an Essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 44 (1): 118-119. 2006.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle’s Nicomachean EthicsCharles M. YoungGabriel Richardson Lear. Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. ix + 238. Cloth, $35.00.Suppose that you and I are friends. I need a ride to the airport; you offer to take me. You might do this for any of a number of reasons: because you want to…Read more
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20A Delicacy In Plato's PhaedoClassical Quarterly 38 (1): 250-251. 1988.Plato's striking figure of the ‘child in us’ at Phaedo 77e5 takes on an added lustre when viewed in the light of the theory of explanation Socrates develops between lOObl and 105c7. Socrates' theory aims to explain why certain objects have certain properties: why something is beautiful or tall, or when a body will be sick or alive. Explanation is called for, Socrates thinks, when an object has a property its title to which is insecure, in the sense that the object's having the property is not gu…Read more
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5Review of Gregory Vlastos: Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher (review)Ethics 103 (4): 817-820. 1993.
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45A Delicacy in Plato's PhaedoClassical Quarterly 38 (1): 250-251. 1988.Plato's striking figure of the ‘child in us’ at Phaedo 77e5 takes on an added lustre when viewed in the light of the theory of explanation Socrates develops between lOObl and 105c7.Socrates' theory aims to explain why certain objects have certain properties: why something is beautiful or tall, or when a body will be sick or alive. Explanation is called for, Socrates thinks, when an object has a property its title to which is insecure, in the sense that the object's having the property is not gua…Read more
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2William Thomas Jones: 1910- 1998Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (4): 699-699. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:William Thomas Jones 1910–1998Charles M. YoungWilliam Thomas Jones, a friend and supporter of this journal since its inception, died on September 30, 1998, in Claremont, California, at the age of eighty-eight. Born in Natchez, Mississippi, Will was educated at Swarthmore, Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar), and Princeton. After a legendary teaching career spanning nearly fifty years, thirty-four at Pomona College and another fifteen at the…Read more
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6The Politics of Aristotle (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (2): 356-357. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Politics of Aristotle by AristotleCharles M. YoungAristotle. The Politics of Aristotle. Translated by Peter L. Phillips Simpson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xliv + 274. Cloth, $39.95. Paper, $12.95.Peter Simpson’s attractively produced, readable, and generally accurate new translation offers much of assistance to the student of Aristotle’s Politics. In addition to providing [End Page 356…Read more
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43Aristotle: Politics, books I and IIPhilosophical Review 109 (1): 87-88. 2000.The volumes in the Clarendon Aristotle Series seek to meet the needs of philosophically inclined readers who do not know Greek by providing accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts accompanied by philosophical commentaries. To these ends, Trevor Saunders’s welcome addition to the series, a treatment of the first two books of Aristotle’s Politics, provides a number of useful tools. First there is a new translation of books I and II. Saunders numbers the paragraphs of the translation a…Read more
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39Aristotle: Politics, Books I and IIPhilosophical Review 109 (1): 87. 2000.The volumes in the Clarendon Aristotle Series seek to meet the needs of philosophically inclined readers who do not know Greek by providing accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts accompanied by philosophical commentaries. To these ends, Trevor Saunders’s welcome addition to the series, a treatment of the first two books of Aristotle’s Politics, provides a number of useful tools. First there is a new translation of books I and II. Saunders numbers the paragraphs of the translation a…Read more
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28Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of PhilosophyJournal of the History of Philosophy 35 (2): 293-294. 1997.
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31The Politics of Aristotle (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (2): 356-357. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Politics of Aristotle by AristotleCharles M. YoungAristotle. The Politics of Aristotle. Translated by Peter L. Phillips Simpson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xliv + 274. Cloth, $39.95. Paper, $12.95.Peter Simpson’s attractively produced, readable, and generally accurate new translation offers much of assistance to the student of Aristotle’s Politics. In addition to providing [End Page 356…Read more
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31Sarah Broadie, "Ethics with Aristotle" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (4): 625. 1993.
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44Aristotle's justiceIn Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 179--197. 2006.The prelims comprise: Preliminaries Universal vs Particular Justice The Scope of Particular Justice Justice and the Doctrine of the Mean:The Problem Distributive and Corrective Justice Reciprocity Grace Political Justice Pleonexia Justice and the Doctrine of the Mean: Aristotle's Solution Responsibility Conclusion References Further reading.
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24Book Review:Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher Gregory Vlastos (review)Ethics 103 (4): 817-. 1993.
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125The doctrine of the meanTopoi 15 (1): 89-99. 1996.English translation, with Chinese source text, of a seminal Chinese classic
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9Colloquium 8Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 10 (1): 313-334. 1994.
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