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15“Did Descartes Read Sextus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism?” A “Sceptical” ResponseThe European Legacy 1-9. forthcoming.This article has been invited by The European Legacy editors as a response to Ayumu Tamura’s “Did Descartes Read Sextus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism?” which continues the promising lines of enquiry he...
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9The Meaning of “Olympica” in DescartesThe European Legacy 1-4. forthcoming.An article of mine in The Heythrop Journal a decade ago discussed Descartes’ “Olympica” dream-sequence, the original of which is lost, but the details of which are preserved in a French version in...
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11The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato’s Dialogues, written by Margalit FinkelbergPolis 37 (2): 368-372. 2020.
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26Nietzsche’s Posthuman Political VisionThe European Legacy 25 (1): 1-19. 2020.Of the truly great thinkers in the western tradition, Nietzsche is the most extreme and the most dangerous.1 Nietzsche of course repeatedly professed his own dangerousness, and predicted that his n...
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8Hesiod’s Works and Days: How to Teach Self-Sufficiency, written by Lilah Grace CanevaroPolis 33 (1): 190-195. 2016.
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15“Machiavellian” Instruction: Why Hesiod’s Ainos Has No MoralThe European Legacy 22 (6): 687-696. 2017.Hesiod’s fable of the hawk and the nightingale, addressed to kings, notoriously has no moral. Its depiction of a hawk carrying off a nightingale, preaching the futility of either resistance or pleading, appears to communicate the counsel, commonly designated as “Machiavellian,” that a ruler must know how to imitate a beast as well as a man. Such instruction—which advises that unjust actions are justifiable and necessary for a ruler—is clearly at odds with Hesiod’s explicit exhortations to his br…Read more
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14In the Shadow of Mount Sinai; Stress and Freedom (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 25 (2): 310-315. 2017.
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9Opposing Political Philosophy and Literature: Strauss's Critique of Heidegger and the Fate of the 'Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry'Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 58 73-96. 2011.Strauss's critique of Heidegger's philosophy aims at a recovery of political philosophy, which he saw as threatened by Heidegger's radical historicism; for Strauss, philosophy as a whole could not survive without political philosophy, and his return to the classical tradition of political philosophy, while inspired by the work of Heidegger, was directed against what he saw as the nihilism that was its consequence. Here I wish to examine a dimension of Strauss's critique which, though hinted at, …Read more
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11Place, Commonality and Judgment: Continental Philosophy and the Ancient Greeks (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (2): 301-307. 2013.No abstract
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21On the “Hiccuping Episode” in Plato’s SymposiumClassical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 104 (2): 143-159. 2011.
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116Hume's Correlationism: On Meillassoux, Necessity and BeliefJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 21 (1): 132-160. 2013.The article argues that Meillassoux's 'After Finitude' underestimates the nature and profundity of Hume's sceptical challenge; it neglects the fact that Hume's scepticism concerns final causes (and agrees fundamentally with Bacon and Descartes in this respect), and that in Hume even the operations of reason do not furnish entirely a priori knowledge. We contend that Hume himself institutes a form of correlationism (which in part showed Kant the way to counter the sceptical challenge via transcen…Read more
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12The Divine Left: A Chronicle of the Years 1977–1984International Journal of Philosophical Studies 23 (4): 612-618. 2015.
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57Jerusalem in Athens: On the Biblical Epigraphs to Leo Strauss's Natural Right and HistoryHeythrop Journal 53 (3): 418-431. 2012.The Old Testament epigraphs used by Leo Strauss for his study Natural Right and History tend invariably to vex his readers. In the book itself and in other of his writings, Strauss explicitly states that the Old Testament tradition does not know ‘nature’ in the philosophical sense, and hence the concept of ‘natural right’ is unknown or alien to that tradition. Another, more obvious problem they present has been seemingly universally passed over by commentators: neither epigraph tells the reader …Read more
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15The Ideology of Hatred: The Psychic Power of DiscourseInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (4). 2013.No abstract
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39Opposing Political Philosophy and Literature: Strauss's Critique of Heidegger and the Fate of the'Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry'Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 58 (126): 73-96. 2011.Strauss's critique of Heidegger's philosophy aims at a recovery of political philosophy, which he saw as threatened by Heidegger's radical historicism; for Strauss, philosophy as a whole could not survive without political philosophy, and his return to the classical tradition of political philosophy, while inspired by the work of Heidegger, was directed against what he saw as the nihilism that was its consequence. Here I wish to examine a dimension of Strauss's critique which, though hinted at, …Read more
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21The Undeconstructed SovereignInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (4). 2011.International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 603-617, October 2011