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6Middleman: Homer's Philosophical RhapsodyPhilosophy and Literature 47 (2): 407-420. 2023.Although the _Iliad_ is typically approached as a version of, say, _Catch-22_, the epic is not about armed conflict and its horrors. The war at Troy serves the poet as a metaphor for life. Advanced in the hexameters is an account of the genesis, and a defense, of the humanist view that men and women occupy an autonomous place midway between clods and gods. Plato's harsh criticism of Homer's work comes into focus once Achilles's transformation is interpreted along these philosophical lines. Homer…Read more
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4Persons and Other things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew BibleUniversity of Toronto Press. 2021.The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God's name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications of the Bible's core anthropological teachings. In Persons and Other Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible's philosophy, roughing out in the course of a defence of …Read more
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36His Royal I-nessPhilosophy and Theology 32 (1-2): 81-91. 2020.The theology of the (Hebrew) Bible, as set out in the Torah’s foundational parts, answers the question “What am I?” not the question “Why is there a world?” So the principle that the Bible’s deity, God, represents, the principle of a category of being not recognized in the pagan thinking whose basic elements Greek philosophy systematizes, first enters “In the day that . . . the Lord God formed [the] man,” not “In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth.” The admonition to place …Read more
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42Persons are the only Creatures: Non‐Naturalism in the BibleHeythrop Journal 61 (6): 951-963. 2020.The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
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7The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and JerusalemUniversity of Toronto Press. 2012.This study presents a substantial revision to received ideas about the relationship between biblical and ancient Greek conceptions of human nature.
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7Preface and AcknowledgmentsIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. 2012.
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64. Raven’s LandIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 78-105. 2012.
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11Introduction: Athens and JerusalemIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 1-16. 2012.
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7The King and ‘I’: Agency and Rationality in Athens and JerusalemRatio 10 (1): 10-34. 1997.Although Western culture draws substantively on Athens and Jerusalem, hostility tends to be shown towards Jerusalem from the philosophical wing. I attempt to correct the imbalance. Philosophy, I argue, arose in the Greek context because of a problem of self‐confidence. ‘Philosophical rationality’ cannot therefore be taken as normative for rationality generally. The contrast between the Jerusalemite and the Athenian views of self and of the contrasting estimates and explanations of the efficacy (…Read more
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44Transcendental IdealismIdealistic Studies 18 (3): 247-265. 1988.“By transcendental idealism,” Kant explains, “I mean the doctrine that appearances are … representations only, not things in themselves, and that time and space are therefore only sensible forms of our intuition, not determinations given as existing by themselves, nor conditions of objects viewed as things in themselves” ; “… by our sensibility … we do not apprehend [things in themselves] in any fashion whatsoever”. The phenomenality of the objective realm, according to Kant, follows from the fa…Read more
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8FrontmatterIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. 2012.
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4ContentsIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. 2012.
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7BibliographyIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 343-346. 2012.
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10NotesIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 307-342. 2012.
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12Conclusion: On the CarmelIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 298-306. 2012.
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1012. MisbehaviourismIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 269-297. 2012.
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610. Love StoriesIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 216-242. 2012.
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59. Becoming PoliticalIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 193-215. 2012.
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88. The Birth of DeathIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 174-192. 2012.
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107. NobodiesIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 151-173. 2012.
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65. The ReformationIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 106-121. 2012.
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63. An Ethical CompassIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 64-77. 2012.
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71. In Defence of PerplexityIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 17-38. 2012.
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42. Man’s EstateIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 39-63. 2012.
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176. Contemplating the Bust of HomerIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 122-150. 2012.
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9IndexIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 347-356. 2012.
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611. Life and TimesIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 243-268. 2012.