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    This book is a meticulous study of Aristotle's phronesis and its applications to the fields of personal development or character formation and of ethical ...
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    If phrónêsis does not develop and define virtue as its own deliberative goal — what does?
    Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 18 (2): 27-49. 2016.
    The article discusses relationships and contexts for "reason", "knowledge", and virtue in Aristotle, based on and elaborating some results from Eikeland. It positions Eikeland in relation to Moss but with a side view to Cammick, Kristjansson, and Taylor. These all seem to disagree among themselves but still agree partly in different ways with Eikeland. The text focuses on two questions: 1) the role or tasks of "reason", "knowledge", and "virtue" respectively in setting the end or goal for ethica…Read more
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    Anamnesis - Dialogical Recollection Work as an Empirical Research Method
    Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 50 65-69. 2018.
    The original article, which first appeared in Norwegian, is a detailed study of anamnesis or recollection in Plato and Aristotle. It discusses, first, how recollection is relevant for the understanding of central aspects of the philosophy of Aristotle, and then discusses how the “regained” Platonic-Aristotelian concept of anamnesis can be related to current methodological challenges in modern social research. After having received feedback on the original article from David Bloch, who has recent…Read more