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2Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature by Louis Groarke (review)Review of Metaphysics 77 (4): 719-721. 2024.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature by Louis GroarkeJay R. ElliottGROARKE, Louis. Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023. 336 pp. Cloth, $120.00Louis Groarke’s Uttering the Unutterable is an extraordinarily ambitious book. Its aims include: to provide a definition of literature; to argue that literature must be morally good; …Read more
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24Colloquium 3 Aristotle on the Voluntariness of ViceProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 36 (1): 65-88. 2021.In Nicomachean Ethics III.5, Aristotle argues that virtue and vice are “up to us and voluntary.” Readers have long struggled to make sense of Aristotle’s arguments in this chapter and to explain how they cohere with the rest of his ethical project. Among the most influential lines of complaint is that the argument of III.5 appears to contradict his emphasis elsewhere on the power of upbringing to shape character, beginning in childhood. Scholars have developed two main interpretive approaches to…Read more
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67Arete in Plato and Aristotle (edited book)Parnassos Press. 2022.For Plato and Aristotle, arete (traditionally translated as "virtue") was the essential object of human admiration and striving, and even the key to happiness. Their work continues to inspire reflection on fundamental questions of ethics and politics today, as the fourteen new essays collected here demonstrate. Contributors: Lidia Palumbo, Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Ryan M. Brown, Jay R. Elliott, Guilherme Domingues da Motta, Federico Casella, Jonathan A. Buttaci, George Harvey, Mark Ralkowski, G…Read more
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74Aristotle on the Archai of Practical ThoughtSouthern Journal of Philosophy 56 (4): 448-468. 2018.Scholars have long debated how exactly Aristotle thinks that agents acquire the distinctive archai (“principles” or “starting‐points”) that govern their practical reasoning. The debate has traditionally been dominated by anti‐intellectualists, who hold that for Aristotle all agents acquire their archai solely through a process of habituation in the nonrational soul. Their traditional opponents, the intellectualists, focus their argument on the case of the virtuous person, arguing that in Aristot…Read more
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85Virtue Ethics and Literary ImaginationPhilosophy and Literature 42 (1): 244-256. 2018.Did Plato see something that Aristotle missed? According to a familiar narrative, Plato regarded literature as dangerous to the aims of philosophy, and he accordingly exiled the poets from his ideal republic. By contrast, Aristotle is supposed to have reconciled literature and philosophy, not only through his appreciative account of epic and tragedy in the Poetics but also through his invocations of literary examples at crucial junctures elsewhere in his corpus, for example his use of the Trojan…Read more
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35Craig G. Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen, Christian Philosophy: A Systematic and Narrative Introduction (review)Augustinian Studies 49 (1): 96-98. 2018.
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67Reply to Müller: Aristotle on vicious choiceBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (6): 1193-1203. 2016.
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122Stag Hunts and Committee Work: Cooperation and the Mutualistic ParadigmReview of Philosophy and Psychology 2 (2): 245-260. 2011.Contemporary philosophers and psychologists seek the roots of ethically sound forms of behavior, including altruism and a sense of fairness, in the basic structure of cooperative action. I argue that recent work on cooperation in both philosophy and psychology has been hampered by what I call “the mutualistic paradigm.” The mutualistic paradigm treats one kind of cooperative situation—what I call a “mutualistic situation”—as paradigmatic of cooperation in general. In mutualistic situations, such…Read more
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36On the Teacher: Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas: A Comparison. By William Ligon Wade, S. J., edited by John P. Doyle (review)Augustinian Studies 45 (1): 123-125. 2014.
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