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112Socrates Dissatisfied: An Analysis of Plato's CritoRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.In Socrates Dissatisfied, Weiss argues against the prevailing view that the personified Laws in the latter part of the Crito are Socrates' spokesmen. She reveals and explores many indications that Socrates and the Laws are, both in style and in substance, adversaries. Deft, provocative, and compelling, with new translations providing groundbreaking interpretations of key passages, Socrates Dissatisfied challenges the standard conception of the history of political thought.
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87Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato's MenoLexington Books. 2001.One of very few monographs devoted to Plato's Meno, this study emphasizes the interplay between its protagonists, Socrates and Meno. It interprets the Meno as Socrates' attempt to persuade his interlocutor, by every device at his disposal, of the value of moral inquiry—even though it fails to yield full-blown knowledge—and to encourage him to engage in such inquiry, insofar as it alone makes human life worth living.
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64The moral and social dimensions of gratitudeSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (4): 491-501. 1985.
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52Killing, Confiscating, and Banishing at Gorgias 466-468Ancient Philosophy 12 (2): 299-315. 1992.
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50The Meno (C.) Ionescu Plato's Meno. An Interpretation. Pp. xx + 194. Lanham, MD and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2007. Cased, US$65. ISBN: 978-0-7391-2025- (review)The Classical Review 59 (1): 60-. 2009.
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48Ο 'Αγαθός As ΌΔυνατός in the Hippias MinorClassical Quarterly 31 (2): 287-304. 1981.This paper is an attempt so to construe the arguments of the Hippias Minor as to remove the justification for regarding it as unworthy of Plato either because of its alleged fallaciousness and Sophistic mode of argument or because of its alleged immorality. It focuses, therefore, only on the arguments and their conclusions, steering clear of the dialogue's dramatic and literary aspects. Whereas I do not wish to deny the importance of these aspects to a proper understanding of the dialogue – on t…Read more
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47The Hedonic Calculus in the Protagoras and the PhaedoJournal of the History of Philosophy 27 (4): 511-529. 1989.
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40A rejoinder to professors Gosling and TaylorJournal of the History of Philosophy 28 (1): 117-118. 1990.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A Rejoinder to Professors Gosling and Taylor Hedonism is for Socrates the radical view that pleasure is the standard according to which one ought to steer one's life, the view that pleasure represents the proper end of human existence. Hedonism is not for Socrates the weaker view that the good life is also the most pleasant. Were it not for the Protagoras, all would agree, I think, that Socrates does not regard pleasure as the highes…Read more
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38Natural Order or Divine Will: Maimonides on Cosmogony and ProphecyJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 15 (1): 1-26. 2007.In Guide 2.32 Maimonides notes that just as there are three opinions concerning prophecy , so are there three opinions concerning cosmogony. Scholars have tended to assume that Maimonides, despite what he says, must have seen some more important correspondence between the two sets of opinions than their number. I argue that although for Maimonides what the two sets of opinions have in common is indeed their number, what he wishes to direct the careful reader's attention to is that the number of …Read more
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37The Socratic Paradox and its EnemiesUniversity of Chicago Press. 2006.In The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies, Roslyn Weiss argues that the Socratic paradoxes—no one does wrong willingly, virtue is knowledge, and all the virtues are one—are best understood as Socrates’ way of combating sophistic views: ...
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36Colloquium 3: The Unjust Philosophers of Republic VIIProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 27 (1): 65-103. 2012.
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31Waiting for Godo... and Godan: Completing Rowe’s Critique of the Ontological ArgumentEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9 (1): 65--86. 2017.In his critique of Anselm’s ontological argument for God’s existence, William Rowe introduces the concepts of “magico” and “magican” — defining “magicos” as magicians that do not exist, and “magicans” as magicians that do exist — to help diagnose what may have gone wrong in Anselm’s argument. As I made my way through Rowe’s intriguing article, I found myself waiting for “Godo” — and for “Godan.” I expected Rowe to invoke these counterparts to his “magico” and “magican” — a non-existing God to co…Read more
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23Hippias Minor—or—The Art of Cunning: A New Translation of Plato’s Most Controversial DialogueInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 9 (2): 221-224. 2015.
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23Socrates and Thrasymachus on Perfect and Imperfect InjusticePlato Journal 22. 2021.It is argued that the true definition of justice in Plato’s Republic appears not in Book IV but in Book I, where it is clear that justice is other-oriented or external rather than internal as per Book IV. Indeed, on Book IV’s definition, there is virtually no difference between justice and moderation. Considered here is a single argument between Socrates and Thrasymachus, in which Socrates contends that imperfect injustice is “stronger” than perfect. Rather than producing a just group, the justi…Read more
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20Book review: Virtue is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy, written by Lorraine Smith Pangle (review)Polis 32 (1): 235-239. 2015.
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