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    Reply to Professor Reichenbach: P. W. GOOCH
    Religious Studies 18 (2): 231-232. 1982.
    In the above reply Professor Reichenbach repeatedly announces or suggests that my thesis is this: the view that persons are resurrected in some physical sense is inconsistent with the Pauline view of the resurrected body. Having consulted both my original intentions and my text, I must affirm again my basic point in section III of the article: the belief that resurrected persons are not embodied is not incompatible with what Paul says about resurrected bodies. While not wishing to attribute such…Read more
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    I believe in…the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. The ancient Christian affirmation of a bodily resurrection still echoes today, and admittedly makes this paper's title sound odd. Resurrected persons are supposedly people with bodies, at least within Christian eschatology. How then can they be disembodied? The counter-question is whether the notion of bodily-resurrected persons can satisfy certain problems raised by that same Christian eschatology, and this paper is an explorat…Read more
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    Kenneth Dorter, "Plato's "Phaedo": An Interpretation" (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 23 (1): 99. 1985.
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    Irony and Insight in Plato's Meno
    Laval Théologique et Philosophique 43 (2): 189-204. 1987.
    At the "meno's" end, virtue comes through divine dispensation apart from understanding, but there are indications in the closing pages that plato does not seriously intend this conclusion. Moreover, dramatic relationships and logical arguments in the dialogue reinforce the irony of the ending. I argue that plato employs dramatic irony to show that meno goes wrong in believing that only knowledge can be taught and in thinking that virtue's not being "didakton" entails that it cannot in principle …Read more
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    Course correction: a map for the distracted university
    University of Toronto Press. 2019.
    Course Correction engages in deliberation about what the twenty-first-century university needs to do in order to re-find its focus as a protected place for unfettered commitment to knowledge, not just as a space for creating employment or economic prosperity. The university's business, Paul W. Gooch writes, is to generate and critique knowledge claims, and to transmit and certify the acquisition of knowledge. In order to achieve this, a university must have a reputation for integrity and trustwo…Read more
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    Paul and Religion: Unfinished Conversations
    Cambridge University Press. 2022.
    Paul and Religion demonstrates the continuing and contemporary relevance of the most important, and most controversial, figure of early Christianity. Paul Gooch interrogates the Pauline writings for their meaning as well as implications for religion as an entire form of life, a stance on the world expressed in distinctive practices. Bringing a philosophical approach to this topic, he connects Paul's ideas to lived experience. In a conversational style, Gooch explores Paul's experience of grace a…Read more
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    The Celebration of Plato's Birthday
    Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 75 (4): 239. 1982.
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    Living more than four centuries apart in very different cultures, Jesus and Socrates wrote nothing themselves, but they inspired their followers to set down words that continue to shape Western consciousness. In this deeply personal and provocative meditation, Paul Gooch reflects on enduring themes that arise from the lives of these two pivotal figures: death and witness, silence as the limit of language, prayer, obedience, and love. Focusing on the Jesus of the Gospels and the Socrates of Plato…Read more
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    Plato on Philosophy and Money
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 7 (4): 13-20. 2000.
    For Plato, one mark of the difference between sophistry and philosophy is that the sophist takes fees for service. His Socrates does not. However, this paper points out that Socrates' attitude to money reflects his unique indifference to things bodily, and a more satisfactory understanding of Plato on money needs to turn to his discussion of the love of money or avarice, especially in the Republic. Plato locates money-loving in appetitive soul along with physical cravings like hunger and lust; w…Read more
  • Paul, the mind of Christ, and philosophy
    In Paul K. Moser (ed.), Jesus and Philosophy: New Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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    The relation between wisdom and virtue in
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 12 (2): 153-159. 1974.
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    Plato's 'phaedo': An interpretation
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 23 (1): 99-100. 1985.