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Analysing Plato's Arguments: Plato and PlatonismOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 173-200. 1992.
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110Analyzing Plato's Arguments: Plato and PlatonismIn James Carl Klagge & Nicholas D. Smith (eds.), Methods of Interpreting Plato and his Dialogues, Oxford University Press. 1992.The historian of philosophy often encounters arguments that are enthymematic: they have conclusions that follow from their explicit premises only by the addition of "tacit" or "suppressed" premises. It is a standard practice of interpretation to supply these missing premises, even where the enthymeme is "real," that is, where there is no other context in which the philosopher in question asserts the missing premises. To do so is to follow a principle of charity: other things being equal, one int…Read more
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11Dealing with Aristotle’s Indefensible IdeasIn David Keyt & Christopher Shields (eds.), Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr, Springer Verlag. pp. 373-397. 2024.The indefensible ideas of Aristotle with which we shall be dealing are ideas such as that eels arise, not from eels, but from mud and slime, that the faculty of reason is not seated in the brain or in any other bodily organ, and that some humans are slaves by nature, ideas that are known, some twenty-three hundred years after they were written down, to be false. These ideas are a problem for a contemporary Aristotelian if they have been validly derived from the general principles of Aristotle’s …Read more
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29Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2024.This collection of original articles draws from a cross section of distinguished scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. It is focussed primarily on the philosophy of Aristotle but comprises as well studies of the philosophy of Socrates, Plato, and Epicurus. Its authors explore a range of complementary topics in value theory, moral psychology, metaphysics, natural philosophy, political theory, and methodology, highlighting the rich and lasting philosophical contributions of the thinkers investigat…Read more
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1Aristotle's Politics: Critical EssaysRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.Aristotle's Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of the history of political philosophy, and like every other such masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division
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26Aristotle: Politics, Books V and Vi (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1999.David Keyt presents a clear and accurate new translation of the the fifth and sixth books of Aristotle's Politics, together with a philosophical and historical commentary. The Politics is a key document in Western political thought; it raises and discusses many political issues, theoretical and practical, which are still widely debated today. The major topics of these two books are equality, democracy, tyranny, revolution, and reform.
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The good man and the upright citizen in Aristotle's ethics and politicsIn David Keyt & Fred Dycus Miller (eds.), Freedom, reason, and the polis: essays in ancient Greek political philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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7Aristotle's Political PhilosophyIn Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2018.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The polis Nature Distributive Justice “The polis of our prayers” Slavery Constitutions The Good Man and the Good Citizen Bibliography.
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13Plato on JusticeIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Phusis and Nomos Political Justice Psychic Justice Just Action.
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10Deductive LogicIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Statements The Square of Opposition Figure and Mood Deduction Counterexamples Independence Soundness Completeness: Syllogistic Arguments Completeness: Categorical Arguments Completeness: Arguments in General Note Bibliography.
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129Wittgenstein's picture theory of languagePhilosophical 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
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The Meaning of Bios in Aristotle's Ethics and PoliticsIn Pierre Destrée & Marco Antônio Zingano (eds.), Theoria: Studies on the Status and Meaning of Contemplation in Aristotle's Ethics, Peeters Press. 2014.
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6Aristotle on Freedom, Nature, and LawIn Peter Adamson & Christof Rapp (eds.), State and Nature: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 119-134. 2021.
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31Aristotle on Freedom and EqualityIn 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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1Plato on Falsity: Sophist 263BIn Edward N. Lee, Alexander P. D. Mourelatos & Richard Rorty (eds.), Exegesis and Argument. Studies in Greek Philosophy presented to Gregory Vlastos. Phronesis Suppl Vol., Van Gorcum. pp. 1--285. 1973.
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115Review of David Keyt and Fred D. Miller: A Companion to Aristotle's "Politics." (review)Ethics 103 (2): 387-389. 1993.
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62Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein with a Memoir. By Paul Engelmann. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1967. Pp. xv, 150. 25sDialogue 8 (1): 128-131. 1969.
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33The Social Contract as an Analytic, Justificatory, and Polemic DeviceCanadian 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
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