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9The Relation Between the Divided line and the Constitutions in Plato’S RepublicPolis 23 (1): 74-94. 2006.This essay argues that there is an important analogy between the hierarchically ordered divisions of the divided line in Republic Book VI and the hierarchy of constitutions described in Books VIII-IX. Imagination corresponds to tyranny, belief to democracy, mathematical understanding to oligarchy, and dialectical reason to timocracy. The unhypothetical principle disclosed through the activity of dialectic, the idea of the Good itself, corresponds to the aristocratic rule of philosopher kings
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13The Relation Between the Divided line and the Constitutions in Plato’S RepublicPolis 23 (1): 74-94. 2006.
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24READINGS OF PLATO - Nails, Tarrant Second Sailing: Alternative Perspectives on Plato. In Collaboration with Mika Kajava and Eero Salmenkivi. Pp. xii + 366, ills. Helsinki: The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 2015. Cased, €30. ISBN: 978-951-653-409-4 (review)The Classical Review 68 (2): 354-356. 2018.
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1In his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Spinoza seeks to separate religion from philosophy and from politics. Yet the true metaphysical understanding of God remains relevant to a proper grasp of the state for Spinoza. Through identifying a common logical structure underlying Spinoza’s conception of God and the two subjects of the TTP - the relation of faith and reason, and the origin of the state and its relation to individual citizens – the paper attempts to demonstrate that Spinoza’s argument f…Read more
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29Substance and Relation in Aristotle’s Political PhilosophyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (2): 421-426. 2017.This paper explores Sean Kirkland’s thesis that relation is the fundamental concept in Aristotelian political philosophy. While substance is prior to relation in Aristotle’s metaphysics, Kirkland argues that since the human exists only in the context of a city which is defined by the essential diversity of views on the human good, relation precedes substantial unity in politics. I argue that the priority of the substantial unity of the city should not be seen to threaten the importance of politi…Read more
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1Hegel’s Defence of Constitutional Monarchy and its Relevance within the Post-National StateAnimus 9 105-130. 2004.
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33Substance and Relation in Aristotle’s Political PhilosophyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (2): 421-426. 2017.This paper explores Sean Kirkland’s thesis that relation is the fundamental concept in Aristotelian political philosophy. While substance is prior to relation in Aristotle’s metaphysics, Kirkland argues that since the human exists only in the context of a city which is defined by the essential diversity of views on the human good, relation precedes substantial unity in politics. I argue that the priority of the substantial unity of the city should not be seen to threaten the importance of politi…Read more
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6Hegel on Being and Nothing: Some Contemporary Neoplatonic and Sceptical ResponsesDionysius 18 183-216. 2000.
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41Parallel trials: The dramatic structure of Plato's euthyphroClassical Quarterly 62 (2): 523-531. 2012.
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75Mortal Imitations of Divine Life: The Nature of the Soul in Aristotle's De AnimaNorthwestern University Press. 2015.In Mortal Imitations of Divine Life, Diamond offers an interpretation of De Anima, which explains how and why Aristotle places souls in a hierarchy of value. Aristotle’s central intention in De Anima is to discover the nature and essence of soul—the principle of living beings. He does so by identifying the common structures underlying every living activity, whether it be eating, perceiving, thinking, or moving through space. As Diamond demonstrates through close readings of De Anima, the nature…Read more
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47The Common Structure of Religion, Philosophy and Politics in Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-PoliticusPhilosophy 10 57-110. 2000.In his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Spinoza seeks to separate religion from philosophy and from politics. Yet the true metaphysical understanding of God remains relevant to a proper grasp of the state for Spinoza. Through identifying a common logical structure underlying Spinoza’s conception of God and the two subjects of the TTP - the relation of faith and reason, and the origin of the state and its relation to individual citizens – the paper attempts to demonstrate that Spinoza’s argument f…Read more
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13Parallel Trials: The Dramatic Structure Of Plato's EuthyphroClassical Quarterly 62 (2): 523-531. 2012.
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49Aristotle’s Appropriation of Plato’s Sun Analogy in De AnimaApeiron 47 (3): 356-389. 2014.Aristotle’s chapter on productive mind (De Anima III.5) and its comparison of this mind to light are best understood as a careful revision to Plato’s Sun-Good analogy from Republic VI. Through a rigorous juxtaposed reading of De Anima II.7 on vision and III.5 on thinking, one can see how Aristotle is almost wholeheartedly taking up Plato’s analogy between vision and thought. When one accounts for all the detail of Aristotle’s explanation of light and vision in II.7 by seeing that chapter as anti…Read more
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