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6Aristotle's Four EthicsPhilosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 15 (2): 162-179. 2014.In the Aristotelian corpus of writings as it has come down to us, there are four works specifically on ethics: the Nicomachean ethics, the Eudemian ethics, the Magna moralia ( or Great ethics) and the short On virtues and vices. Scholars are now agreed that the first two are genuinely by Aristotle and most also believe that the Nicomachean is the later and better of the two. About the Magna moralia, there is still a division of opinion, though probably most scholars hold that it is not genuine, …Read more
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Charles Taylor (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (1): 157-158. 2002.To write a book summarizing and explaining the thought of a wide-ranging and complex philosopher is a hard task, and even more so when the philosopher in question is still writing. Still, it is usually a worthy and often a necessary task. That is certainly so in this case. Charles Taylor is one of the few contemporary philosophers both to be at the forefront of a major philosophical movement and to have comfortably and ably straddled the great divide between analytic and continental philosophy. …Read more
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13The Rejection of SkepticismThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 6 25-28. 2007.There is a widespread belief among contemporary philosophers that skeptical hypotheses—such as that we are dreaming, or victims of an evil demon, or brains in a vat—cannot definitively be ruled out as false. This belief is ill-founded. In fact it is based on a failure to see that skeptical arguments beg the question. Such arguments assume that reality is not an immediate given of experience in order to prove that reality is not an immediate given of experience. This point is explained and justif…Read more
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King's college sociobiology group: "Current problems in sociobiology" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 62 (n/a): 431. 1984.
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7Review of Richard G. Stevens, Political Philosophy: An Introduction (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1). 2011.
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54The Rejection of SkepticismThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 6 25-28. 2007.There is a widespread belief among contemporary philosophers that skeptical hypotheses—such as that we are dreaming, or victims of an evil demon, or brains in a vat—cannot definitively be ruled out as false. This belief is ill-founded. In fact it is based on a failure to see that skeptical arguments beg the question. Such arguments assume that reality is not an immediate given of experience in order to prove that reality is not an immediate given of experience. This point is explained and justif…Read more
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3The Disillusioned Hegelian: BarkerS Readings of PlatoPolis 23 (2): 263-285. 2006.Ernest Barker wrote two books on the political thought of Plato, both of which were also directly related to his study of the political thought of Aristotle. This essay examines the way Barker’s readings of Plato changed, first from the earlier to the later of his two books, and then from the later of these books, written during WWI, to his translation of Aristotle’s Politics, written during WWII. The contention is that, as Barker himself partly confessed, WWI led him to read hopes into Plato’s …Read more
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23Aristotle’s Defensible Defence of SlaveryPolis 23 (1): 95-115. 2006.This article is an attempt to break down Aristotle’s arguments in favour of slavery into what I take to be their constituent premises and conclusions, to set these out schematically in syllogistic form, and to display both how each of the arguments works on its own and how all of them fit together to form one overarching argument. The purpose of this exercise is to make as evident as possible the structure, coherence, and validity of Aristotle’s reasoning. This is something that is lacking in sc…Read more
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16On Karol WojtyłaCengage Learning. 2001.This brief text assists students in understanding Karol Wojtyla's philosophy and thinking so they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the Wadsworth Notes Series, (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON KAROL WOJTYLA is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the s…Read more
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9On The Text Of Some Disputed Passages In Aristotle's Ethica EudemiaClassical Quarterly 62 (2): 541-552. 2012.
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15Aristotle's Ethica evdemia: The text and character of the common books as found in Eth. Evd. mssClassical Quarterly 69 (1): 187-201. 2019.Aristotle's Ethica Eudemia and Ethica Nicomachea, as is well known and much discussed, contain three books in common. Less well known, at least until Dieter Harlfinger alerted scholars to the fact in 1971, is that some of the manuscripts of Eth. Eud. do, contrary to the then prevailing consensus, contain the text of these common books. Even less well known is that Harlfinger's discovery was anticipated some 50 years before by Walter Ashburner, who had uncovered this fact about Eth. Eud. MSS in t…Read more
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20Aristotle’s Politics: A Critical Guide, written by Thornton Lockwood and Thanassis SamarasPolis 34 (1): 157-159. 2017.
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1214. Contemporary Virtue Ethics and AristotleIn Daniel Statman (ed.), Virtue Ethics: A Critical Reader, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 245-259. 1997.
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12The Eudemian Ethics of AristotleRoutledge. 2013.Among the works on ethics in the Aristotelian corpus, there is no serious dispute among scholars that the "Eudemian Ethics "is authentic. The "Eudemian Ethics "is" "increasingly read and used by scholars as a useful support and confirmation and sometimes contrast to the "Nicomachean Ethics." Yet, it remains a largely neglected work in the study of Aristotle's ethics, both among scholars and moral philosophers. Peter L. P. Simpson provides an analytical outline of the entire work together with su…Read more
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8A Philosophical Commentary on the Politics of AristotleUniv of North Carolina Press. 1998.Philosophical Commentary on the Politics of Aristotle.
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12The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics—ed. Burkhard Reis and Stella Haffmans (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (1): 109-111. 2008.
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32Wittgenstein's City (review)Review of Metaphysics 44 (2): 399-401. 1990.The title of this book is taken from one of Wittgenstein's own images. In Philosophical Investigations §18, Wittgenstein writes: "Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods." Ackerman maintains that this image gives us the clue to seeing Wittgenstein's thought as a whole. The two periods of Wittgenstein's thinking are nowhere near as opposed as scholars are wont to make out. They diff…Read more
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8The Disillusioned Hegelian: BarkerS Readings of PlatoPolis 23 (2): 263-285. 2006.Ernest Barker wrote two books on the political thought of Plato, both of which were also directly related to his study of the political thought of Aristotle. This essay examines the way Barker's readings of Plato changed, first from the earlier to the later of his two books, and then from the later of these books, written during WWI, to his translation of Aristotle's Politics, written during WWII. The contention is that, as Barker himself partly confessed, WWI led him to read hopes into Plato's …Read more
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22Reasons and Persons (review)Review of Metaphysics 39 (2): 370-372. 1985.The aim and result of this book may perhaps be best described as the dissolution of the idea of persons, at least as 'person' is ordinarily understood. Parfit wishes, partly in response to the impersonalism of modern life, to establish impersonalism in moral theory. But such impersonalism will in fact, he maintains, make things go better for persons.
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Review of Eckart Schütrumpf's Aristotoles Politik, uberstetzt und erlautern (review)American Journal of Philology 114 (2): 320-323. 1993.
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32Meier, Heinrich. The Lesson of Carl Schmitt (review)Review of Metaphysics 65 (4): 885-887. 2012.
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7Fred D. Miller, Jr., Nature, Justice and Rights in Aristotle's" Politics"Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (4): 607-607. 1996.
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28Consequentialism, Incoherence and ChoiceAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1): 93-98. 1992.
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21Aristotle’s Defensible Defence of SlaveryPolis 23 (1): 95-115. 2006.This article is an attempt to break down Aristotle's arguments in favour of slavery into what I take to be their constituent premises and conclusions, to set these out schematically in syllogistic form, and to display both how each of the arguments works on its own and how all of them fit together to form one overarching argument. The purpose of this exercise is to make as evident as possible the structure, coherence, and validity of Aristotle's reasoning. This is something that is lacking in sc…Read more
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