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    Review Symposium of David Corey, The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues: SUNY Press, 2015
    with Avi I. Mintz, Anne-Marie Schultz, Samantha Deane, Marina McCoy, and William H. F. Altman
    Studies in Philosophy and Education 37 (4): 417-431. 2017.
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    11 April 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical, Pacem in Terris, a document that has exerted enormous influence on the doctrines of war and peace articulated by Roman Catholic and non-Catholic writers alike. The argument we make here is that in its understanding of human rights, international peace and philosophical anthropology, the encyclical in effect abandons the ?just war? teachings that had guided the church's view of human conflict for 16 centuries, and we argue that the…Read more
  •  19
    Reply to Critics of The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues
    Studies in Philosophy and Education 36 (3): 389-392. 2016.
  •  9
    The Sophists in Plato's Dialogues
    State University of New York Press. 2015.
    _Draws out numerous affinities between the sophists and Socrates in Plato's dialogues._
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    Michael Oakeshott worried that during his lifetime, liberal democracies had become dangerously oblivious to the problem of political legitimacy—the problem of ensuring that government power be used in ways that respect the freedom and political equality of all citizens. This essay deepens Oakeshott’s concern by arguing that there has never been a successful theoretical argument to establish why some citizens should be able to exercise political power over other citizens under conditions of freed…Read more
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    Socratic Philosophy and its Others (edited book)
    with Michael Davis, Catherine H. Zuckert, Gwenda-lin Grewal, Mary P. Nichols, Denise Schaeffer, Christopher A. Colmo, Matthew Dinan, Jacob Howland, Evanthia Speliotis, Ronna Burger, and Christopher Dustin
    Lexington Books. 2013.
    Engaging a broad range of Platonic dialogues, this collection of essays by distinguished scholars in political theory and philosophy explores the relation of Socratic philosophizing to those activities with which it is typically opposed—such as tyranny, sophistry, poetry, and rhetoric. The essays show that the harder one tries to disentangle Socrates’ own activity from that of its apparent opposite, the more entangled they become; yet, it is only by taking this entanglement seriously that the di…Read more
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    How the Sophists Taught Virtue: Exhortation and Association
    History of Political Thought 26 (1): 1-20. 2005.
    The Greek sophists are perhaps most noteworthy in the history of political thought for their claim to be able to teach virtue for pay. Socrates, by contrast, claimed not to be able to teach virtue, though his method of elenchus or refutation had a moral-pedagogical dimension that is often said to have rivalled the pedagogical practices of the sophists. The present study examines the sophistic pedagogical methods of exhortation and association, and compares these to the Socratic method of refutat…Read more
  • The Greek Sophists: Teachers of Virtue
    Dissertation, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. 2002.
    This dissertation is a study of the Greek sophists as teachers of arete and a study of the conflict between sophistic and Socratic political values as portrayed in the dialogues of Plato. The first section offers a new definition of the term "sophist" based on ancient sources and attempts to present as clear a picture as is historically possible of the sophists' activities. The second section examines and evaluates Plato's criticisms of the sophists drawing attention especially to the dependence…Read more