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  • Virtues and Parts of the Soul
    In Ethics with Aristotle, Oxford University Press. 1991.
    Discusses the virtue of character: the definition of it in terms of prohairesis and the orthos logos; in what sense it is a mean; how it involves conformity of desire to reason; how it develops in the soul; and how the conditions of upbringing explain why justice is a human virtue.
  • Pleasure
    In Ethics with Aristotle, Oxford University Press. 1991.
    No one understands better than Aristotle how deeply the desire for pleasure is rooted in human and animal nature. He must show that while pleasure can threaten morality, it also lies at the heart of human rational perfection. His complex reactions to neutralism, and to the hedonism of Eudoxus, shape his views about pleasure, activity, and completeness.
  • Practical Wisdom
    In Ethics with Aristotle, Oxford University Press. 1991.
    The main topics are Aristotle on the structure and psychology of rational choice ; on practice and production; on practical versus theoretical truth; on particulars as the sphere of practice; on ends and means in deliberation; and on the relation of character and intelligence in practical wisdom. The chapter argues against “Grand End” interpretations of this Aristotelian virtue.
  • The Voluntary
    In Ethics with Aristotle, Oxford University Press. 1991.
    In the context of perspectives drawn from philosophy of action and from Aristotle's natural philosophy, the chapter examines the ambiguity of the Aristotelian voluntary, its connections with censure and responsibility, its defensibility by excuse of force or ignorance, its bipolarity, its connection with character formation, and its implications, if any, for determinism.
  • Incontinence
    In Ethics with Aristotle, Oxford University Press. 1991.
    Discusses Aristotle's limitation of incontinence proper to the field of temperance, temptation by noble ends, the nature of incontinent ignorance, and what it is to use one's practical knowledge.
  • Aristotle's Values
    In Ethics with Aristotle, Oxford University Press. 1991.
    The interpreter's problem is to reconcile Aristotle's reflections on theôria as the highest happiness with the practical emphasis of most of his ethics. Aristotle's problem is to explain why his godlike theoretical ideal ranks higher than his practical one, while showing that both are genuinely human ends. The argument turns on the importance of leisure and of serious activities.
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    Happiness, the Supreme End
    In Ethics with Aristotle, Oxford University Press. 1991.
    What is the best human life? is a question for the Aristotelian statesman and for those whom upbringing has endowed with good starting points. The analysis of Aristotle's answer takes us to the idea of happiness, to the problem of its relation to other goods, and to its definition in terms of the human function.
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    Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle
    Mind 132 (527): 828-833. 2021.
    When we are in a rational frame of mind we are ready to listen to reason (tautology). But if we are not in a rational frame of mind, how does reason (in this ca.
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    Heavenly Bodies and First Causes
    In Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Notes Bibliography.
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    The Creation of the World
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78 (1). 2004.
    Part 1 examines the roles of (a) intelligent cause, (b) empirical materials (fire, earth etc.), and (c) the resulting cosmos, in the account of world-making in the Timaeus. It is argued that the presence of (b) is essential for the distinctness of (a) and (c); and an explanation is proposed for why the biblical idea of creation faces no such problem. Part II shows how different suggestions implicit in Plato's doctrine of the intelligible model give rise to radically different kinds of Platonic m…Read more
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    La chance et les biens moraux et non moraux chez Aristote
    Les Etudes Philosophiques 138 (3): 49-63. 2021.
    Le sujet de l’étude est la relation entre le bonheur et la chance selon Aristote. Ce problème est abordé à partir de la question de savoir si la sagesse et la vertu suffisent au bonheur. Si tel était le cas, une personne pauvre et malade serait heureuse. Pour Aristote, au contraire, le bonheur nécessite des biens non moraux pour être complet. Le bonheur n’est pas seulement ce qui rend les autres choses bonnes, il est aussi ce qui est complet et désirable. Dans ce cas, la question du rapport du b…Read more
  • Words, deeds, and lovers of truth in Aristotle
    In Jenny Bryan, Robert Wardy & James Warren (eds.), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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    Mathematics in Plato's Republic
    Marquette University Press. 2020.
    A discussion of Plato's evaluation of mathematics as an intellectual discipline, and his reasons for training his philosopher-rulers to be mathematical experts.
  • This chapter continues the discussion of Cambiano's on A 1, since Aristotle's chapters A 1-2 are evidently a continuous introduction. The problem of what exactly it is an introduction to, i.e. the perennial question of the unity and diversity of Aristotle's metaphysical treatises, is considered here, although necessarily only in outline. It is also argued that, contrary to some scholarly opinions, this introduction should not be regarded as a protreptic to philosophy as such, i.e. as belonging t…Read more
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    Editorial Note
    Philosophical Quarterly 71 (4). 2021.
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    Plato's Sun-Like Good: Dialectic in the Republic
    Cambridge University Press. 2021.
    Plato's Sun-Like Good is a revolutionary discussion of the Republic's philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relation to the form of the good. With detailed arguments Sarah Broadie explains how, if we think of the form of the good as 'interrogative', we can re-conceive those central reference-points of Platonism in down-to-earth terms without loss to our sense of Plato's philosophical greatness. The book's main aims are: first, to show how for Plato the form of the good is of practical v…Read more
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    The Virtues of Aristotle (review)
    Philosophical Review 98 (3): 396-398. 1989.
  • Aristotle’s Now
    The Philosophical Quarterly 34 104-128. 1984.
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    Soul and Body in Plato and Descartes
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 101 (1): 295-308. 2001.
    Although they are often grouped together in comparison with non-dualist theories, Plato's soul-body dualism, and Descartes' mind-body dualism, are fundamentally different. The doctrines examined are those of the Phaedo and the Meditations. The main difference, from which others flow, lies in Plato's acceptance and Descartes' rejection of the assumption that the soul (= intellect) is identical with what animates the body.
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    The Constitution of Agency (review)
    Social Theory and Practice 36 (4): 705-711. 2010.
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    Aristotle Through Lenses from Bernard Williams
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 78 23-35. 2016.
    This paper looks at a theme in ancient Greek ethics from perspectives developed by Bernard Williams.1 The ancient theme is the place of theoretical activity in human life, and I shall be referring to Aristotle. Williams is relevant through one strand in his scepticism about ‘morality, the peculiar institution’.2 His discussion suggests questions not merely about Aristotle but ones it would be interesting to put to Aristotle and see how he would or should respond to them.
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    The knowledge unacknowledged in the Theaetetus
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 51 87-117. 2016.
    ISBN: 9780198795797, 9780198795803 Edited by Victor Caston.