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3From the Beginning to Plato: Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 1 (edited book)Routledge. 2003.This first volume in the series traces the development of philosophy over two-and-a-half centuries, from Thales at the beginning of the sixth century BC to the death of Plato in 347 BC.
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8Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--Iv: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2006.This volume, which is part of the Clarendon Aristotle Series, offers a clear and faithful new translation of Books II to IV of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, accompanied by an analytical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Books II to IV, Aristotle gives his account of virtue of character in general and of the principal virtues individually, topics of central interest both to his ethical theory and to modern ethical theorists. Consequently major themes of the commentary are connecti…Read more
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26Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--Iv: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2006.This volume, which is part of the Clarendon Aristotle Series, offers a clear and faithful new translation of Books II to IV of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, accompanied by an analytical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Books II to IV, Aristotle gives his account of virtue of character in general and of the principal virtues individually, topics of central interest both to his ethical theory and to modern ethical theorists. Consequently major themes of the commentary are connecti…Read more
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45Studies in greek philosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1). 1999.Studies in Greek Philosophy. Gregory Vlastos. Edited by Daniel W. Graham. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995. Volume I The Presocratics pp. xxxiv + 389; Volume II Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition pp. xxiv + 349. 40 per volume (hb.), ISBN 0-691-03310-2, 0-691-03311-0; 14.50 per volume (pb.), ISBN 0-691-01937-1, 0-691-01938-X.
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3Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2): 248-250. 2003.
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24The Sophists and Legal Philosophy S. Kirste, K. Waechter, M. Walther (edd.): Die Sophistik. Entstehung, Gestalt und Folgeprobleme des Gegensatzes von Naturrecht und positivem Recht . Pp. 175. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Paper, €36. ISBN: 3-515-08194- (review)The Classical Review 55 (01): 47-. 2005.
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16Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to PlotinusPhilosophical Review 122 (4): 667-670. 2013.
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23Political Authority and Obligation in AristotleInternational Philosophical Quarterly 46 (2): 236-238. 2006.
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236Nomos and phusis in democritus and PlatoSocial Philosophy and Policy 24 (2): 1-20. 2007.This essay explores the treatment of the relation between nature (phusis) and norm or convention (nomos) in Democritus and in certain Platonic dialogues. In his physical theory Democritus draws a sharp contrast between the real nature of things and their representation via human conventions, but in his political and ethical theory he maintains that moral conventions are grounded in the reality of human nature. Plato builds on that insight in the account of the nature of morality in the myth in t…Read more
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52Pleasure, mind, and soul: selected papers in ancient philosophyOxford University Press. 2007.C. C. W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek atomists, showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and that pleasure is also a central concept for the atomists. Pleasure, Mind, …Read more
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10Protagoras (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1976.In this dialogue Plato shows the pretensions of the leading sophist, Protagoras, challenged by the critical arguments of Socrates. The dialogue broadens out to consider the nature of the good life and the role of intellect and pleasure.