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    Politics: Books V and Vi (edited book)
    Oxford University Press UK. 1999.
    Books V and VI of Aristotle's Politics constitute a manual on practical politics. In the fifth book Aristotle examines the causes of faction and constitutional change and suggests remedies for political instability. In the sixth book he offers practical advice to the statesman who wishes to establish, preserve, or reform a democracy or an oligarchy. He discusses many political issues, theoretical and practical, which are still widely debated today--revolution and reform, democracy and tyranny, f…Read more
  •  202
    The philosophy of C. I. Lewis
    Philosophical Review 82 (4): 491-516. 1973.
  •  190
    The good man and the upright citizen in Aristotle's ethics and politics
    Social Philosophy and Policy 24 (2): 220-240. 2007.
    This essay deals with Aristotle's complex account in Politics III.4 of the good man and the upright citizen. By this account the goodness of an upright citizen is relative to the city of which he is a citizen, whereas the goodness of a good man is absolute. Aristotle holds that the goodness of a good man and the goodness of an upright citizen are identical in one case only, that of a full citizen of his ideal city. In a non-ideal city the two are always distinct. One would expect, then, that cas…Read more
  •  182
    Aristotle Politics: Books V and VI
    Philosophical Review 110 (4): 593. 2001.
    This book completes the Clarendon Aristotle Series edition of the Politics. One might assume that, since David Keyt’s contribution is the last of the four on the Politics, when Aristotle scholars agreed to write these volumes, he was fourth in line and so got stuck with Politics V–VI. Surely, one might think, few would choose Politics V–VI over Politics I–II, with its fascinating discussions of the fundamental nature of the polis, the infamous chapters on slavery, and the critique of the communi…Read more
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    The symbolism introduced earlier provides a convenient vehicle for examining the status and consistency of Aristotle's three diverse justifications and for explaining how he means to avoid Protagorean relativism without embracing Platonic absolutism. When the variables ‘ x ’ and ‘ y ’ are allowed to range over the groups of free men in a given polis as well as over individual free men, the formula for the Aristotelian conception of justice expresses the major premiss of Aristotle's three justifi…Read more
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    Wittgenstein's picture theory of language
    Philosophical Review 73 (4): 493-511. 1964.
    The proposition 'seattle is west of spokane' has three parts: two\nproper names and the predicate 'is west of.' the fact pictured has\ntwo: seattle and spokane. but the picture theory holds that there\nmust be a one-to-one correspondence between fact and proposition.\nhow does wittgenstein solve this problem in the 'tractatus'? on one\ninterpretation the fact contains a third part, a relation, corresponding\nto the predicate (evans and stenius). on another the proposition\nis transformed by anal…Read more
  •  113
    Review of David Keyt and Fred D. Miller: A Companion to Aristotle's "Politics." (review)
    with Fred D. Miller
    Ethics 103 (2): 387-389. 1993.
  •  96
    Plato on Justice
    Philosophical Inquiry 30 (3-4): 37-53. 2008.
  •  81
    Injustice and Pleonexia in Aristotle: A Reply to Charles Young
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 27 (S1): 251-257. 1989.
  •  67
    Plato and the ship of state
    In Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic, Blackwell. pp. 189--213. 2006.
    This chapter contains section titled: Introduction The Ship and Those on Board The Unruly Ship The Normal Ship Choosing a Steersman Conclusion.
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    The mad craftsman of the timaeus
    Philosophical Review 80 (2): 230-235. 1971.
  •  65
    Plato’s Arguments for Forms (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 4 (2): 241-246. 1984.
  •  42
    The Fallacies in Phaedo 102a-107b
    Phronesis 8 (1): 167-172. 1963.
  •  38
    The Mad Craftsman of the Timaeus
    Philosophical Inquiry 40 (1-2): 8-12. 2016.
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    Wittgenstein's notion of an object
    Philosophical Quarterly 13 (50): 13-25. 1963.
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    R. F. Stalley, "An Introduction to Plato's Laws" (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 23 (2): 249. 1985.
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    The Dialogues of Plato. vol. I (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 7 (n/a): 222-227. 1987.
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    Plato's theory of understanding
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (4): 551-552. 1983.
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    Aristotle on Freedom and Equality
    In Gerasimos Santas & Georgios Anagnostopoulos (eds.), Democracy, Justice, and Equality in Ancient Greece: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 225-241. 2018.
    The two watchwords of ancient Greece democracy were ‘freedom’ and ‘equality’. Aristotle is sharply critical of the democratic understanding of both terms but, as a champion of true aristocracy, does not wish to surrender such rhetorically charged words to his ideological opponents. He thus tries to preserve a portion of the concepts signified by each of these terms for his favored political system. With respect to equality he is explicit. He distinguishes proportional equality from numerical equ…Read more
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    Forms in Plato’s Philebus (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 12 (1): 190-193. 1992.
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    The Social Contract as an Analytic, Justificatory, and Polemic Device
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (2). 1974.
    John Rawls, in his distinguished revival and animation of the theory of the social contract, maintains that “the procedure of contract theories provides … a general analytic method for the comparative study of conceptions of justice ”. As a corollary, he holds, secondly, that “if one interpretation [of the contractual situation] is philosophically most favoured, and if its principles characterize our considered judgments, we have a procedure for justification as well ”. Finally, Rawls uses the s…Read more