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33Body and Soul in GalenIn Common to Body and Soul: Philosophical Approaches to Explaining Living Behaviour in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 232-258. 2006.
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26"Common to Soul and Body" in the Parva NaturaliaIn Common to Body and Soul: Philosophical Approaches to Explaining Living Behaviour in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 121-139. 2006.
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29Parmenides on ThinkingIn Common to Body and Soul: Philosophical Approaches to Explaining Living Behaviour in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 13-30. 2006.
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41Common to Body and Soul: Peripatetic Approaches After AristotleIn Common to Body and Soul: Philosophical Approaches to Explaining Living Behaviour in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 165-186. 2006.
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128Lloyd Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections. Pp. 240. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Cased, £27.50, US$35.00. ISBN: 0-19-927016-3The Classical Review 56 (1): 237-239. 2006.
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40Role Courage in Aristotle and the Xunzi《荀子》: an Example of Mapping Thick Ethical Concepts (review)Journal of Chinese Philosophy 52 (1-2): 55-71. 2025.Bernard Williams’ notion of “thick concepts” provides useful targets for comparative philosophy, in that such concepts appear to be behind common terms in many different languages. Words routinely translated “courage” occur both in the Xunzi《荀子》and Aristotle, but what lies behind these terms (such as yong 勇, andreia) is very different indeed. One similarity is however surprising: yong in the Xunzi in itself is not straightforwardly a virtue, just as only a certain form of andreia is in Aristotle…Read more
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95Ren in the analects: Skeptical prolegomenaJournal of Chinese Philosophy 39 (1): 89-105. 2012.Ren in the Lunyu is often taken to be virtue; if virtue is taken to be excellence as performing a function, as Plato understands it, this is not persuasive. Nor is it easy to show how ren encompasses or implies all other virtues. Ren is furthermore ambiguous—it is used both in a wide sense and specifically as benevolence; in fact there are at least six accounts of what ren is in the Lunyu. This ambiguity cannot be made harmless by use of speech act theory, since commands, for example, require sa…Read more
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71The Soul and its Instrumental Body. A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Philosophy of Living Nature (review)The Classical Review 57 (2): 322-323. 2007.
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29Life Beyond the Stars:Aristotle, Plato and EmpedoclesIn Common to Body and Soul: Philosophical Approaches to Explaining Living Behaviour in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 49-102. 2006.
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35Parva naturaliaIn Christof Rapp & Klaus Corcilius (eds.), Aristoteles-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Metzler. pp. 109-117. 2011.Parva naturalia ist eine Gruppe kleinerer Schriften, die folgende Einzeltitel umfasst: De sensu et sensato, De memoria et reminiscentia, De somno et vigilia, De insomniis, De divinatione per somnum, De longaevitate et brevitate vitae, De iuventute et senectute. Der Titel Parva naturalia geht auf den mittelalterlichen Philosophen und Aristoteliker Aegidius Romanus zurück. Die Parva naturalia vervollständigen das Projekt von De anima, indem sie die darin entwickelten Definitionen der Seele und ihr…Read more
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9Parva naturaliaIn Christof Rapp & Klaus Corcilius (eds.), Aristoteles-Handbuch: Leben-Werk-Wirkung, J.b. Metzler Verlag. pp. 109-117. 2021.Parva naturalia ist eine Gruppe kleinerer Schriften, die folgende Einzeltitel umfasst: De sensu et sensato, De memoria et reminiscentia, De somno et vigilia, De insomniis, De divinatione per somnum, De longaevitate et brevitate vitae, De iuventute et senectute. Der Titel Parva naturalia (›kleine naturwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen‹) geht auf den mittelalterlichen Philosophen und Aristoteliker Aegidius Romanus zurück. Die Parva naturalia vervollständigen das Projekt von De anima, indem sie die da…Read more
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118Late Antique Epistemology. Other Ways to TruthInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 5 (1): 195-197. 2011.
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38Nutrition and fatigue : some remarks on the status of Theophrastus' Peri kopōnIn William W. Fortenbaugh & Georg Wöhrle (eds.), On the Opuscula of Theophrastus: Akten der 3. Tagung der Karl-und-Gertrud-Abel-Stiftung vom 19.-23. Juli 1999 in Trier, Franz Steiner Verlag. 2002.not available.
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80The volume presents essays on the philosophical explanation of the relationship between body and soul in antiquity from the Presocratics to Galen. The title of the volume alludes to a phrase found in Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus, referring to aspects of living behaviour involving both body and soul, and is a commonplace in ancient philosophy, dealt with in very different ways by different authors.
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53Finding my Way Home: Knowing in the PhilebusRevue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 153 (3): 249-268. 2021.Dans le Philèbe de Platon, Socrate fait valoir que la vie bonne doit consister en la connaissance et le plaisir. Une partie de cette démonstration consiste en une analyse des parties de la connaissance où la connaissance peut être plus ou moins pure, plus ou moins mêlée d’éléments étrangers tels que la sensation ou l’expérience. Lorsqu’elle est pure, elle s’attache à la vérité, pure et simple. Car, nous devons l’admettre, la connaissance est vraie, quoiqu’elle puisse être d’autre par ailleurs. L…Read more
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74Aristotle on life and deathDuckworth. 2000.Aristotle's "Parva Naturalia" culminates in definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from the generation of a new living thing up to death. This book provides a detailed reading of the end of the "Parva Naturalia" and shows how it completes the investigation into life begun in the "De Anima".
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91Aristotle and Plotinus on MemoryWalter de Gruyter. 2009.Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotle’s “On memory and recollection” and Plotinus’ “On perception and memory” ; the latter also wrote at length about memory in his “Problems connected with the soul”. In both authors memory is treated as a ‘modest’ faculty: both authors assume the existence of a persistent subject to whom memory belongs; and basic cognitive capacities are assumed on which memory depends. In particular, both theories use phantasia to expla…Read more
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132G. J. Hughes: Aristotle on Ethics . Pp. x + 238. London: Routledge, 2001. Cased, £35 . ISBN: 0-415-22186-2The Classical Review 52 (2): 372-373. 2002.
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99Plotinus on Eγδaimonia - McGroarty Plotinus on Eudaimonia. A Commentary on Ennead 1.4. Pp. xxiv + 236. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Cased, £50. ISBN: 978-0-19-928712-3 (review)The Classical Review 60 (1): 88-90. 2010.
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51Mencius and the Stoics – tui and oikeiôsisIn The Good Life and Conceptions of Life in Early China and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, De Gruyter. pp. 341-362. 2015.
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24IntroductionIn The Good Life and Conceptions of Life in Early China and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, De Gruyter. pp. 3-20. 2015.
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