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3Plato's TotalitarianismIn Gail Fine (ed.), Plato, Volume 2: Ethics, Politics, Religious and the Soul, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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11Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--Iv: Translated with an Introduction and CommentaryOxford 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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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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9Nicomachean 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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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.
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60Plato's Republic: Critical EssaysRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1997.Bringing between two covers the most influential and accessible articles on Plato's Republic, this collection illuminates what is widely held to be the most important work of Western philosophy and political theory. It will be valuable not only to philosophers, but to political theorists, historians, classicists, literary scholars, and interested general readers
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27Aristotle: 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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19Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xvi, 1998 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1998.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual volume of original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books. The 1998 volume is broad in scope, as ever, featuring four articles on Aristotle, two on Plato, and one each on Xenophanes, the Atomists, and Plutarch.
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6Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xiii: 1995 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1995.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books.
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6Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xiv, 1996 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1996.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books.
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1Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xv, 1997 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1997.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books. 'an excellent periodical' Mary Margaret MacKenzie, Times Literary Supplement.
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54Pleasure, 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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13Greek PhilosophersOxford University Press USA. 1999.Almost uniquely for someone whose thought has been so influential, Socrates wrote nothing himself, and our knowledge of his philosophical opinions and method is derived mainly from the engaging and infuriating figure who appears in Plato's dialogues. The philosophy of Socrates and Plato is therefore closely interconnected, and the most powerful elements of Plato's mature thought form the basis of an interpretation of knowledge, reality, and morality which is still held and debated by philosopher…Read more
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SocratesIn Ted Honderich (ed.), The philosophers: introducing great western thinkers, Oxford University Press. 1995.
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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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54The art of living: Socratic reflections from plat0 to FoucaultPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 423-425. 2000.From his own day to the present Socrates has presented a challenge to philosophers and commentators, a challenge at once of a puzzle to be solved and of an ideal to be continually reshaped in response to the demands of shifting historical perspectives. Alexander Nehamas’s intriguing book combines discussion of this ongoing process, specifically of responses to Socrates by Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, with exemplification of it via his own response to Socrates. The focus of these responses…Read more
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31The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to FoucaultPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 423. 2000.From his own day to the present Socrates has presented a challenge to philosophers and commentators, a challenge at once of a puzzle to be solved and of an ideal to be continually reshaped in response to the demands of shifting historical perspectives. Alexander Nehamas’s intriguing book combines discussion of this ongoing process, specifically of responses to Socrates by Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, with exemplification of it via his own response to Socrates. The focus of these responses…Read more
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37Socratic Perplexity and the nature of philosophy (review)Ancient Philosophy 20 (2): 451-454. 2000.
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