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494Aristotle on Mathematical and Eidetic NumberHermathena 190 29-51. 2011.The article examines Greek philosopher Aristotle's understanding of mathematical numbers as pluralities of discreet units and the relations of unity and multiplicity. Topics discussed include Aristotle's view that a mathematical number has determinate properties, a contrast between Aristotle and French philosopher René Descartes in terms of their understanding of number and Aristotle's description of ways to understand eidetic numbers
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119Contemplative Friendship in Nicomachean EthicsReview of Metaphysics 65 (4): 765-794. 2012.In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle’s two forms of human happiness correspond to two forms of human virtue (moral and intellectual) and, I argue, to two forms of virtuous friendship (active and contemplative). I propose that the most properly human form of happiness is achieved in contemplative friendship. This friendship is a genuinely contemplative approximation of divine life and still a specifically human life consisting in discursivespeech with others. Contemplative friends wish the good to on…Read more
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68Vaccines, Abortion, and Moral CoherenceThe National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 2 (1): 51-67. 2002.
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51Friendship and Teaching Philosophy in Nicomachean Ethics IX.1Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 87 271-283. 2013.In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle discusses the relation between teachers and students during his treatment of “non-uniform friends.” These friends exchange goods differing in kind . Such friendships depend on the needs of the friends, and we are invited to ask whether some need induces a philosopher to teach a not-yet-philosophical student. In this paper I argue that the philosophical teacher does not approach his pupil out of need nor as he would approach a contemplative friend who is an equal.…Read more
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47Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (2): 411-412. 2000.
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44Medical Ethics: Sources of Catholic Teachings, 4th edition edited by Kevin D. O’Rourke, OP, and Philip J. Boyle (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 12 (2): 366-369. 2012.
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25Human Embryos, Human Beings: A Scientific and Philosophical Approach by Samuel B. Condic and Maureen L. Condic (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 20 (1): 184-188. 2020.
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25Informed Consent, Proxy Consent, and Catholic Bioethics: For the Good of the Subject by Grzegorz Mazur (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 13 (2): 374-377. 2013.
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24Parental Love and Prenatal DiagnosisThe National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 1 (4): 519-526. 2001.
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22Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 18 (4): 747-750. 2018.
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21Biotechnology: Our Future as Human Beings and Citizens edited by Sean D. Sutton (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 10 (4): 827-830. 2010.
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14Friendship and Teaching Philosophy in Nicomachean Ethics IX.1Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 87 271-283. 2013.In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle discusses the relation between teachers and students during his treatment of “non-uniform friends.” These friends exchange goods differing in kind. Such friendships depend on the needs of the friends, and we are invited to ask whether some need induces a philosopher to teach a not-yet-philosophical student. In this paper I argue that the philosophical teacher does not approach his pupil out of need nor as he would approach a contemplative friend who is an equal. …Read more
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11Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (2): 411-412. 2000.The first volume in the Clarendon Aristotle Series to present a segment of Nicomachean Ethics is Professor Pakaluk’s translation of and commentary on books 8 and 9. In a brief preface, Pakaluk explains that the translation attempts “to be accurate and literal,” “to make clear the inferential and argumentative structure of the text,” and to convey in good English “the force and character of Aristotle’s style”. In his commentary, he attempts to analyze the logic of Aristotle’s arguments and the co…Read more
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8Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 36 (edited book)Brill. 2021.Volume 36 contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2019-20. Works: _Republic 7, Topics 1.2, Nicomachean Ethics 3.5, Isis and Osiris_. Topics: types of dialectic, political philosophy, voluntary, hermeneutical retrieval, wanted emotions.
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8Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxxv (edited book)Brill. 2020.Volume 35 contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2018-19. Works: Commentary on _De Anima_, Nicomachean Ethics. Topics: Humean motivation, memory-oblivion & myth, final causality and ontology of life.
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6Volume 35 contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2018-19. Works: Commentary on _De Anima_, Nicomachean Ethics. Topics: Humean motivation, memory-oblivion & myth, final causality and ontology of life.
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6Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxxiv (edited book)Brill. 2019.Volume 34 contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2017-18. Works: _Parmenides_, _Metaphysics_, IX.8, _Nicomachean Ethics_, I.12. Topics: meaning of “one,” generation and activity, language and techne, Epicurean pity, praising and prizing.
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3Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXXVII (2022) (edited book)BRILL. 2023.Volume 37 contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during 2022. Works: _Phaedo_, _Statesman_, _De Caelo_, _Metaphysics N_, _Enneads_. Topics: immortality, Forms; dialectic, myth, law; elements, inclination, place; mathematics and explanation; mystical union.
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1Pope Benedict XVI on Faith and ReasonNova et Vetera 7 625-652. 2009.In his Regensburg Lecture, Pope Benedict articulates the harmony of faith and reason by arguing against interpretations of faith that denies God’s reasonableness and against interpretations of rationality that denies faith’s reasonableness, Benedict articulates the harmony of faith and reason. This paper examines Benedict’s argument for this harmony and then turns to the encyclical Deus Caritas Est for illustrative examples of various kinds of harmonious co-operation between faith and reason.
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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy, vol. 36 (edited book). 2021.This volume, the 36th year of published proceedings, contains five papers, four commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 2019–20. Paper topics: On Platonism, how Plato's Cave preserves his political interest from Arendt's critique, and how Plutarch's Isis and Osiris uses a complex framing device to integrate Platonic metaphysics and politics. On Aristotle, that dialectic is a versatile techne for formal and informal discussion, and the r…Read more
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3. Notes on "the Virtue of Science and the Science of Virtue"In Peter Augustine Lawler & Marc D. Guerra (eds.), The Science of Modern Virtue: On Descartes, Darwin, and Locke, Northern Illinois University Press. pp. 46-56. 2013.
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Un fil d'Ariane? Le récit de l'hôtesse dans Jacques le fatalisteLumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 13 117-124. 1994.
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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 36 (edited book)Brill. 2021.Volume 36 contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2019-20. Works: _Republic 7, Topics 1.2, Nicomachean Ethics 3.5, Isis and Osiris_. Topics: types of dialectic, political philosophy, voluntary, hermeneutical retrieval, wanted emotions.
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