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201The Definition of RacismJournal of Applied Philosophy 13 (1): 31-40. 1996.ABSTRACT This essay considers definitions of racism which emphasise its behavioural, motivational, and cognitive features. The behavioural definition (‘the failure to give equal consideration, based on the fact of race alone’) is rejected, primarily due to its inability to distinguish between ‘true’and ‘ordinary’racism. It is the former which is morally most objectionable — and which identifies the essence of the racist attitude and belief. The central part of the essay argues in favour of the m…Read more
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59On Manly Courage: A Study of Plato's LachesSouthern Illinois University Press. 1992.Schmid divides the book into five main discussions: the historical background of the dialogue; the relation of form and content in a Platonic dialogue and specific structural and aesthetic features of the Laches; the first half of the ...
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51Socratic moderation and self-knowledgeJournal of the History of Philosophy 21 (3): 339-348. 1983.
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43A Kantian Theory of SportJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 40 (1): 107-133. 2013.This essay develops a Kantian theory of sport which addresses: (1) Kant’s categories of aesthetic judgment (2) a comparable analysis applied to athletic volition; (3) aesthetic cognition and experience and athletic volition and experience; (4) ‘free’ and ‘attached’ beauty; (5) Kant’s theory of teleological judgment; (6) the moral concept of a ‘kingdom of ends’ and sportsmanship; (7) the beautiful and the sublime in sport-experience; (8) respect and religious emotion in sport-experience; (9) the …Read more
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37Plato’s Charmides and the Socratic Ideal of RationalityState University of New York Press. 1998.Interprets Plato's Charmides as a microcosm of Socratic philosophy that presents Plato's vision of the life of critical reason and of its uneasy relation to political life in the ancient city
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15Golf as Meaningful Play: A Philosophical GuideLexington Books. 2017.Golf as Meaningful Play is a philosophical introduction to golf as a sporting practice and source of personal meaning. It addresses topics of interest to both scholars and intellectually curious golfers, including mental aspects of play, the nature of sport, virtues of the game, and golf in film and literature.
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12Socratic PaideiaThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 43 119-128. 1998.I emphasize four points: Socratic dialectic challenges the interlocutor not only to acquire the correct moral opinions, but to question and think for oneself and to develop one's own moral rationality; it involves anticipatory acts of several types of virtue: courage, moderation, and justice and concern for the common good as opposed to competition and jealousy; what is at stake is not only the topic of the particular exchange, but the opportunity for membership in a rational/educational communi…Read more
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10Introducción a la traducción - Moderación socrática y conocimiento de síIdeas Y Valores 68 (171): 305-318. 2019.La sensatez o moderación (sophrosyne/σωφροσύνη) es un tema central que atraviesa diversos diálogos de Platón, en los cuales esta virtud se presenta en relación con el amor (erôs), el conocimiento de sí y la política. Esta virtud es abordada por Walter T. Schmid en su artículo “Socratic Moderation and Self-Knowledge”, publicado en el volumen 21 del Journal of The History of Philosophy, como resultado del seminario The Philosophy of Sócrates, organizado en 1981 por Gregory Vlastos, explorando la e…Read more
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10Plato’s Theory of the Arts in the Gorgias and in the RepublicArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 29. 2020.This paper examines Socrates’ theory of the arts in the Gorgias and in the Republic. It shows how that theory changes, as the discussion takes focus first in relation to moderation, then to justice, where it is tied to the idea of a techne of rule, to notions of virtuous work and civic health, and to five levels of ‘art’ represented in the cave. It argues that both Socrates’ vision of a scientific and benevolent political art and Thrasymachus’ sophistic theory of tyrannical rule are undercut in …Read more
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1Socratic Dialectic in the CharmidesIn Gary Alan Scott (ed.), Does Socrates Have a Method?: Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 235-251. 2002.
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Die Geburt der Philosophie im Garten der Lüste. Michel Foucaults Archäologie des platonischen ErosTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 50 (4): 740-741. 1988.
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The Emergence of Virtue: A Study in Aristotle's Practical PhilosophyDissertation, Yale University. 1976.