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24The Unorthodox Theory of Forms in Plato's PhilebusJournal of Ancient Philosophy 11 (2): 45. 2017.
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6Freedom in the PhilebusProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 81 205-216. 2007.This paper explores a possible Platonic grounding of human freedom in the Philebus. The Philebus presents a particularly intruiging account of the humangood and freedom alike in terms of the right relation of nous and pleasure. Through a close analysis of key passages in this dialogue I show how Plato conceives of freedom in terms of the intellect’s ordering and directing of desire and pleasure to genuinely fulfilling ends. The greatest fulfillment of desire comes together with the purest pleasu…Read more
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32The Goodness of Pleasure in Plato’s PhilebusInternational Philosophical Quarterly 56 (3): 265-282. 2016.This paper takes a nuanced stance against an intellectualist position that is strong in the literature on the Philebus by arguing that pleasure’s goodness is inherent but not independent. Pleasure is worth pursuing together with intellectual activity in the mixed life because pleasure is the sensual manifestation, direct or indirect, of growth in goodness. Pleasure as the expression of this growth is the sensual component of the mixture that Socrates in this dialogue defends as the good for huma…Read more
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9Philebus (edited book)Broadview Press. 2019.The _Philebus _is the only Platonic dialogue that takes as its central theme the fundamental Socratic question of the good, understood as that which makes for the best or happiest life. This predominantly ethical theme not only involves an extended psychological and epistemological investigation of topics such as sensation, memory, desire, anticipation, the truth and falsity of pleasures, and types and gradations of knowledge, but also a methodological exposition of dialectic and a metaphysical …Read more
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35Taming the Cosmic Rebel: The Place of the Errant Cause in the TimaeusEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (2): 267-286. 2014.This paper examines the errant cause in the Timaeus. After eliminating the material elements, matter, chōra, and irrational soul, I show that the source of cosmic disorder lies in the manifestation of difference in genesis. This disorder is a necessary feature of demiurgic formation, which requires generated beings to fall short of their paradigmatic forms and to encounter each other in destabilizing motions. Errancy is thus a threat to generated beings, but it also presents an opportunity and a…Read more
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5On the Good Life: Thinking Through the Intermediaries in Plato’s Philebus by Cristina IonescuReview of Metaphysics 75 (1): 147-148. 2021.
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47Isidore Barney (S.A.), Lewis (W.J.), Beach (J.A.), Berghof (O.) (edd., trans.) The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Pp. xii + 475. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Cased, £85, US$150. ISBN: 0-521-83749-9. (J.) Henderson The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville. Truth from Words. Pp. xii + 232, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Cased, £55, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-521-86740- (review)The Classical Review 59 (1): 171-. 2009.
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33Freedom in the PhilebusProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 81 205-216. 2007.This paper explores a possible Platonic grounding of human freedom in the Philebus. The Philebus presents a particularly intruiging account of the humangood and freedom alike in terms of the right relation of nous and pleasure. Through a close analysis of key passages in this dialogue I show how Plato conceives of freedom in terms of the intellect’s ordering and directing of desire and pleasure to genuinely fulfilling ends. The greatest fulfillment of desire comes together with the purest pleasu…Read more
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42A Journey to the Dark Side of the MoonFaith and Philosophy 26 (2): 134-153. 2009.This paper explores the place of evil in Plato’s thought through the lens of the Philebus. I show that the concept of evil in this dialogue is in broad agreement with the classic Christian position which accents metaphysically its privative and derivative character and morally its rebellious and self-oriented character. The entryway into the issue is 29d9–e1, where a “power of dissolution” is proposed in addition and opposition to the power of generation and mixture, and then quickly rejected. S…Read more
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14Necessity and Contingency in the Philosophy of ParmenidesReview of Metaphysics 73 (3): 421-454. 2020.
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17The Guardians in Action: Plato the Teacher and the Post-Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to TheaetetusAncient Philosophy 38 (1): 205-211. 2018.
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