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121Austere Friends: The Stoics and FriendshipApeiron 26 (1). 1993.Greek eudaimonists often discuss the nature and value of friendship. The prominence of such discussions results from the utility of the conception of friendship in formulating and testing central ethical doctrines. As they engage in a radical revision of ordinary ethical concepts, the Stoics challenge us to relinquish conventional beliefs about friendship. Ideal Stoic moral agents are passionless and austere. Yet, the Stoics not only contend that these relatively affectless temperaments have fri…Read more
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71Happiness, Completeness, and Indifference to Death in Epicurean Ethical TheoryApeiron 35 (4): 57-68. 2002.
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53Weakness, Reason, and the Divided Soul in Plato's RepublicHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 4 (2). 1987.
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26Review of Stephen Augustus White: _Sovereign Virtue: Aristotle on the Relation Between Happiness and Prosperity_ (review)Ethics 104 (2): 402-403. 1994.
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9Colloquium 4Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 6 (1): 141-150. 1990.
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8Platonic Piety (review)Review of Metaphysics 45 (1): 138-141. 1991.Commentators too often have failed to locate Plato's epistemology in a historically sensitive interpretation. Michael Morgan's Platonic Piety makes this charge and seeks to address it by incorporating Plato's attitude toward Greek religion in his reading of Plato's middle dialogues. In particular, he examines the consequences of "human aspiration to divine status". Morgan has two main objectives. First, he wishes to consider how religious assumptions affect Plato's treatment of political, metaph…Read more
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8Stoicism and Emotion (review)Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 102 (4): 503-504. 2009.
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3Virtue and the goods of fortune in Stoic moral theoryOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 7 95-127. 1989.
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1Gisela Striker, Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (4): 294-296. 1997.
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1Brad Inwood, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (1): 34-37. 2005.
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1Julia E. Annas, Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (5): 305-307. 1992.
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Review of Stephen Augustus White: _Sovereign Virtue: Aristotle on the Relation Between Happiness and Prosperity_ (review)Ethics 104 (2): 402-403. 1994.
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Gisela Striker, Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics (review)Philosophy in Review 17 294-296. 1997.
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