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Lucrezia MarinellaCambridge University Press. 2024.Lucrezia Marinella's (1571–1653) most important contributions to philosophy were two polemical treatises: The Nobility and excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, and the Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please. Marinella argues for the superiority of women over men in every respect: psychologically, physiologically, morally, and intellectually. She is particularly effective in using the resources of ancient philosophy to support her various arguments, in which she draw…Read more
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13Courage: Definition and distinctionsRevue de Philosophie Ancienne 2 247-267. 2021.Afin d’examiner la définition du courage chez Aristote, cet article pose un certain nombre de questions de procédure. (i) Comment Aristote s’y prend-il pour construire la définition du courage dans sa philosophie morale et politique? Suit-il réellement la procédure de rassemblement et de division qu’il a héritée de Platon, mais qu’il a aussi révisée et continué à prôner dans ses développements théoriques sur la définition? (ii) La définition du courage que pose Aristote a-t-elle la structure qu’…Read more
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39Introduction : Les nouveaux horizons du féminisme dans la philosophie francophonePhilosophiques 44 (2): 189-192. 2017.Charlotte Sabourin,Marguerite Deslauriers
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9Why Eve Matters in the History of Feminist ArgumentsIn Isabelle Chouinard, Zoe McConaughey, Aline Medeiros Ramos & Roxane Noël (eds.), Women’s Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 343-349. 2021.This is a response to the paper “The fruit of knowledge: To bite or not to bite? Isotta Nogarola on Eve’s sin and its scholastic sources,” by Marcela Borelli, Valeria A. Buffon, and Natalia G. Jakubecki. It has two aims. The first is to show the importance of discussions of Eve in the querelle des femmes, and so to emphasize the importance of Borelli, Buffon and Jakubecki’s analysis of Nogarola’s account of Eve. A second aim is to highlight the philosophical rigour of Nogarola’s discussion of th…Read more
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Aristotle's Human BeingsIn Karolina Hübner (ed.), Human: A History, Oxford University Press. 2022.
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31The Superiority of Women in the Seventeenth CenturyJournal of the American Philosophical Association 8 (1): 1-19. 2022.Early feminist or pro-woman works often combine the claim that the rational souls of men and women are the same with an argument for the superiority of women. This article considers two such works, Lucrezia Marinella's The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men (Venice, 1601 [1999]) and Marguerite Buffet's In Praise of Illustrious Learned Women, both Ancient and Modern (Paris, 1668), in order to show the continuities and distinctive features of feminist arguments for s…Read more
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31Aristotle on Sexual difference: metaphysics, biology and politicsOxford University Press. 2021.Aristotle's remarks about the differences between the sexes have become infamous for their implications for the social status of women. In his observations on female biology, Aristotle claims that "the female nature is, as it were, a deformity." In describing women's role in the public sphere, he claims that women are naturally subordinate because, while they possess a deliberative faculty, that capacity is "without authority." While both claims express the "inferiority" of female bodies/women r…Read more
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25Marie de Gournay and Aristotle on the Unity of the SexesIn Eileen O’Neill & Marcy P. Lascano (eds.), Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women’s Philosophical Thought, Springer. pp. 281-299. 2019.Marie de Gournay, in a central argument in the pamphlet Égalité des hommes et des femmes [The Equality of Women and Men], offers an interpretation of an argument for equality that she attributes to ‘the School.’ I argue that Gournay is drawing on Aristotle’s Metaphysics to formulate an argument for the equality of women; that she does not temper that argument with claims for the superiority of women, which makes her unique for some time; and that her alleged misrepresentation of her authorities …Read more
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26Le plaisir et le temps dans le livre X de l’Éthique a NicomaqueChôra 17 105-126. 2019.Aristotle begins the discussion of pleasure in Book X of the Nicomachean Ethics with the claim that pleasure “is thought to be most properly connected with our kind,”. In his positive account of pleasure in X 4, he suggests that we can somehow experience pleasure otherwise than “in time”. The aim of this article is to show how the claim that pleasure does not occur ‘in time’ might illuminate the claim that pleasure is most properly connected to our kind. The point, I will argue, is not only that…Read more
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35Thumos in Aristotle’s Politics VII.7Polis 36 (1): 57-76. 2019.Aristotle claims that the citizens of the best city should be both intelligent and spirited at Politics VII.7 1327b19-38. While he treats intelligence as an unqualified good, thumos is valuable but problematic. This paper has two aims: to consider the political value of spirit in Aristotle’s Politics and in particular to identify the ways in which it is both essential to political excellence and yet insufficient for securing it, and to use this analysis of the role of spirit in the political rea…Read more
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3Aristotle on the Virtues of Slaves and WomenIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume Xxv: Winter 2003, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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63Patriarchal power as unjust: tyranny in seventeenth-century VeniceBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (4): 718-737. 2019.ABSTRACTIn the debate about the worth of women in sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy three pro-woman authors of the period, Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella, and Arcangela Tarabotti, develop...
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John J. Cleary and Daniel C. Shartin, eds., Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Volume IV 1988 (review)Philosophy in Review 10 (2): 54-57. 1990.
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16The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.One of the most influential works in the history of political theory, Aristotle's Politics is a treatise in practical philosophy, intended to inform legislators and to create the conditions for virtuous and self-sufficient lives for the citizens of a state. In this Companion, distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on the work and its themes. After an opening exploration of the relation between Aristotle's ethics and his politics, the central chapters follow the sequence of the eight books…Read more
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217How to Distinguish Aristotle's VirtuesPhronesis 47 (2): 101-126. 2002.This paper considers the distinctions Aristotle draws (1) between the intellectual virtue of "phronêsis" and the moral virtues and (2) among the moral virtues, in light of his commitment to the reciprocity of the virtues. I argue that Aristotle takes the intellectual virtues to be numerically distinct hexeis from the moral virtues. By contrast, I argue, he treats the moral virtues as numerically one hexis, although he allows that they are many hexeis 'in being'. The paper has three parts. In the…Read more
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215Aristotle on the Virtues of Slaves and WomenOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 25 213-31. 2003.
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73The Virtue Of God In AristotlePhilosophy and Theology 16 (1): 3-23. 2004.The aim of this paper is to show that for Aristotle god is, and is not, virtuous. I consider first the arguments of the EN to show that the gods do not have virtue---beginning with an account of the divisions of the faculties of soul, and of the virtues that belong to those divisions. These arguments suggest that nous is a divine virtue, and so in the second section I consider nous, as a faculty of soul and as a virtue, and examine the differences between nous as a human virtue, and nous as a vi…Read more
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104Sexual Difference in Aristotle's Politics and His BiologyClassical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 102 (3): 215-231. 2009.
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49The Female in Aristotle's Biology: Reason or RationalizationAmerican Journal of Philology 126 (3): 458-460. 2005.
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94Marinella and her interlocutors: hot blood, hot words, hot deedsPhilosophical Studies 174 (10): 2525-2537. 2017.In the treatise called La nobiltà et l’eccellenza delle donne co’ diffetti et mancamenti de gli uomini Lucrezia Marinella claims that women are superior to men. She argues that men are excessively hot, and that heat in a high degree is detrimental to the intellectual and moral capacities of a person. The aim of this paper is to set out Marinella’s views on temperature differences in the bodies of men and women and the effects of bodily constitution on the capacities necessary for political delib…Read more
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5Stephen Halliwell, The Poetics of Aristotle: translation and commentary Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 8 (7): 271-273. 1988.
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5Gerald F. Else, Plato and Aristotle on Poetry Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 7 (11): 442-444. 1987.
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94Aristotle on definitionBrill. 2007.This work examines Aristotle's discussions of definition in his logical works and the Metaphysics, and argues for the importance of definitions of simple ...
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41The Origins of Aristotelian Science (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 23 (4): 637-659. 1993.
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27Book Reviews: Robert Mayhew, The Female in Aristotle’s Biology: Reason or Rationalization , xi + 136 pp., $28.00 (review)Journal of the History of Biology 38 (2): 400-402. 2005.
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