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355The Forms, the Form of the Good, and the Desire for Good in Plato’s RepublicModern Schoolman 80 (3): 191-233. 2003.
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184What Laches and Nicias Miss-And Whether Socrates Thinks Courage Merely a Part of VirtueAncient Philosophy 12 (1): 1-27. 1992.
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156Socrates on the Strength of Knowledge: Protagoras 351B-357EArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 79 (2): 117-149. 1997.
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75Plato's LysisCambridge University Press. 2005.The Lysis is one of Plato's most engaging but also puzzling dialogues; it has often been regarded, in the modern period, as a philosophical failure. The full philosophical and literary exploration of the dialogue illustrates how it in fact provides a systematic and coherent, if incomplete, account of a special theory about, and special explanation of, human desire and action. Furthermore, it shows how that theory and explanation are fundamental to a whole range of other Platonic dialogues and in…Read more
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46Two notes on the Crito: the impotence of the many, and 'persuade or obey'Classical Quarterly 47 (01): 133-146. 1997.So far, interpreters have not made the import of this last clause clear. F. J. Church translates the last phrase ‘they act at random’. Burnet says of Adam that he seems to have been the first to point out that the meaning cannot be ‘they act at random’. Instead, ‘the phrase expresses indifference’. Adam′s idea, which Burnet here commends, is that the many are thoughtless in their treatment of the individual; and Adam compares 48C below: the many would lightly put someone to death and just as lig…Read more
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42Desire, identity, and existence: essays in honor of T.M. Penner (edited book)Academic Print. &. 2003.
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41GERASIMOS [or Seeking Freedom from the Fregean Under the Description Methodology]Philosophical Inquiry 31 (1-2): 107-130. 2009.
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33Chapter EightProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 3 (1): 263-325. 1987.
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26What Laches and Nicias Miss-And Whether Socrates Thinks Courage Merely a Part of VirtueAncient Philosophy 12 (1): 1-27. 1992.
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14Two notes on the Crito: the impotence of the many, and ‘persuade or obey’Classical Quarterly 47 (1): 153-166. 1997.So far, interpreters have not made the import of this last clause clear. F. J. Church translates the last phrase ‘they act at random’. Burnet says of Adam that he seems to have been the first to point out that the meaning cannot be ‘they act at random’. Instead, ‘the phrase expresses indifference’. Adam′s idea, which Burnet here commends, is that the many are thoughtless in their treatment of the individual; and Adam compares 48C below: the many would lightly put someone to death and just as lig…Read more
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12The Forms in the RepublicIn Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic, Blackwell. pp. 234-262. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: On What the Forms Are: the Present State of the Question Sketch of the View to be Offered Here Plan of this Discussion of the Forms The Republic's Project as a Whole The First Group of Passages on the Forms (V.472b—e with 454a–456c) The Second Group of Passages (X.596a–602b) The Third Group of Passages on the Forms (V.475e–480b, VI.484b–485b, 486d‐e, 490a—b, 493e–494a, 500b–502d) The Fourth Group of Passages (VI.502c‐VII.541b: Sun, Line, and Cave) as Describ…Read more
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11The Ascent from Nominalism: Some Existence Arguments in Plato's Middle DialoguesSpringer Verlag. 1987.divisibility in Physics VI. I had been assuming at that time that Aristotle's elimination of reference to the infinitely large in his account of the potential inf inite--like the elimination of the infinitely small from nineteenth century accounts of limits and continuity--gave us everything that was important in a theory of the infinite. Hilbert's paper showed me that this was not obviously so. Suddenly other certainties about Aristotle's (apparently) judicious toning down of (supposed) Platoni…Read more
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10Inequality, Intention, and Ignorance: Socrates on Punishment and the Human GoodIn Gerasimos Santas & Georgios Anagnostopoulos (eds.), Democracy, Justice, and Equality in Ancient Greece: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 83-138. 2018.I examine here a wide array of interlocking Socratic doctrines, especially as they show up in the ideas of Socratic Ignorance and the Examined Life —along with such other Socratic claims as the following. First, that No one errs willingly. Second, that, in acting intentionally, everyone is always seeking their own greatest available good, given their present circumstances, where that greatest good is taken over the rest of their lives. Third, that those who don’t see that harming others will not…Read more
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9The Forms and the Sciences in Socrates and PlatoIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: The “What is X?” Question, the Sciences, Virtue, and the Forms Plato's “Argument from the Sciences” for the Existence of Forms, as Apparently Represented by Aristotle, and Aristotle's Criticism of that Argument Plato the Parmenidean Sciences and Pseudo‐Sciences The Good and the Sciences A Proposal: The Forms are Attributes; and There are No Attributes that are not Forms What about Plato's Other Reasons for Believing in Forms (Logical, or Mystical‐Metaphysic…Read more
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71. What is the Form of the Good the Form of? A Question about the Plot of the RepublicIn Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann & Terrence Penner (eds.), Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic, University of Edinburgh. pp. 15-41. 2007.
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4Plato's Ethics: Early and Middle DialoguesIn Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2018.This chapter contains sections titled: Socrates and Plato: Conflicting Psychologies of Action The Desire for Good in Platonic Ethics Peculiarities of the Treatment of Justice as Psychological Well‐adjustment Psychological Well‐adjustment as what the Socratic Science of Justice must become given the new Platonic Psychology of Action The Development of Greek Ethics Through Plato Bibliography.
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