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6Listening to Reason in Plato and AristotleMind 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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7Heavenly Bodies and First CausesIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Notes Bibliography.
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34The Creation of the WorldAristotelian 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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9La chance et les biens moraux et non moraux chez AristoteLes 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
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Truth and Story in the Timaeus-CritiasIn G. Boys-Stones, C. Gill & D. El-Murr (eds.), The Platonic Art of philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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Words, deeds, and lovers of truth in AristotleIn Jenny Bryan, Robert Wardy & James Warren (eds.), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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Aristotle on luck, happiness, and Solon's dictumIn Ian M. Church & Robert J. Hartman (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, Routledge. 2019.
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19Mathematics in Plato's RepublicMarquette 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.
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A Science of First Principles A Science of First Principles Metaphysics A 2In Oliver Primavesi (ed.), Aristotle's Metaphysics Alpha: Symposium Aristotelicum, Oxford University Press. 2012.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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30Plato's Sun-Like Good: Dialectic in the RepublicCambridge 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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Aristotle's Epistemic Progress: Terence Irwin, Aristotle's First PrinciplesIn C. C. W. Taylor (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xi: 1993, Clarendon Press. 1993.
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Theodicy and Pseudo-History in the TimaeusIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume Xxi: Winter 2001, Clarendon Press. 2001.
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Where is the activity? An Aristotelian worry about the telic status of energeiaIn eds Robert and Bolton James Lennox (ed.), Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf, Cambridge University Press. pp. 198-211. 2010.
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665Soul and Body in Plato and DescartesProceedings 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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21Corporeal gods, with Reference to Plato and AristotleIn Thomas Buchheim & David Meißner (eds.), SOMA: Körperkonzepte und körperliche Existenz in der antiken Philosophie und Literatur, Felix Meiner Verlag. pp. 159-182. 2016.
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43Aristotle Through Lenses from Bernard WilliamsRoyal 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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75The knowledge unacknowledged in the TheaetetusOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 51 87-117. 2016.ISBN: 9780198795797, 9780198795803 Edited by Victor Caston.
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19The Ancient GreeksIn Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock & Peter Menzies (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Causation, Oxford University Press. 2009.There are various motives for refining the notion of cause. Aristotle's was an interest in providing the most informative and illuminating method of explaining the central natural phenomena of his universe. A different sort of motive is created by problems of free will and responsibility, of which readers may have been reminded by the reference to indeterminism. The thought that our free and responsible behaviour is caused by factors over which we have no control has often seemed impossible to a…Read more
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33'Actual Instead'Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 113 (1pt1): 1-19. 2013.It is argued that acceptance of determinism sits badly with the way we use counterfactual conditionals when considering gains and losses in light of how things would have been if such-and-such had or had not happened; it is further suggested that one type of indeterminism runs into the same difficulty; also that the difficulty may escape notice through failure to distinguish different uses of counterfactuals.
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3On the Idea of the Summum BonumIn Christopher Gill (ed.), Virtue, norms, and objectivity: issues in ancient and modern ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 41-58. 2005.
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Aporia 8In Michel Crubellier & André Laks (eds.), Aristotle's Metaphysics Beta Symposium Aristotelicum, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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115Nature and Divinity in Plato's TimaeusCambridge University Press. 2011.Plato's Timaeus is one of the most influential and challenging works of ancient philosophy to have come down to us. Sarah Broadie's rich and compelling study proposes new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus, including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. Broadie shows how Plato deploys the mythic themes of the Timaeus to convey fundamental philosophical insights and examines the profoundly differing methods of int…Read more
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28Finding the Mean, Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy (review)International Studies in Philosophy 25 (3): 145-146. 1993.
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Why no Platonistic Ideas of artefacts?In Dominic Scott (ed.), Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, Oxford University Press. 2007.
Sarah Broadie
(1941 - 2021)
St Andrews, FIfe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland