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A Platonic Model Of The Soul-Body Relationship, Kenneth Dorter

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

In presenting a unified overview of Plato's conception of soul I do not intend to suggest that Plato's undogmatic and unsystematic approach to philosophy can be reduced in a systematic dogma. The model I develop is meant to be taken not dogmatically but instrumentally, as a basis for relating to one another the various things that Plato says about the soul. It is furthermore based upon a conviction that the progressive development of Plato's conception …

Plato On Mind And Morality In Nature, Joan Kung

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

The view that values and virtues, whether independently real or merely conventional, are no part of nature and are to be studied in a discipline distinct from sciences which investigate the natural world goes nearly unquestioned in our time. I shall argue that it is challenged by Plato in his criticism of Anaxagoras.

Courage In Plato’S Earlier Dialogues, Nicholas P. White

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

Beginning in his earlier works. Plato attempted to give an account of virtue and of the particular virtues. including courage. which receives special attention in the Laches and the Protagoras. I want to explore a number of aspects of the virtue of courage about which I think that philosophers are still not fully clear. I am afraid that some of our lack of clarity results from the way in which Socrates and Plato began the …

Socrates’ Practice Of Elenchos In The Charmides, W. Thomas Schmid

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

There is a common, but false conception of Socrates' practice of dialectical examination. This conception depicts him as a relentless critic, a "despotic logician" (Nietzsche) guided by a moral purpose. Socrates is said to aim not at truth but at refutation — at proving, step by step, and often with a display of malicious irony, that the interlocutor's thought is inconsistent, that he "doesn't know what he is talking about.' Richard Robinson says that the …

The Inquiry Into Aitiai In Plato’S Phaedo, Michael L. Morgan

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

There is a feature of Socrates' intellectual autobiography in the Phaedo that has not been sufficiently clarified by commentators on that passage. Most students of the dialogue have taken the text to describe Socrates' disenchantment with mechanical reasons or explanations, his disappointment with Anaxagoras' failure to provide sound teleological explanations, and his eventual turning to explanations involving the separated Forms. In very rough terms, to be sure, Socrates' tale is thought to be about his …

Program: 10th Annual Baker Philosophy Colloquium, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Review

Program listing for the 10th annual Baker Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981. Visiting presiding philosophers: David Gallop of Trent University and Nicholas P. White of the University of Michigan.

Happiness And Function In Plato’S Republic, Richard Mohr

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

The casual reader of the Republic may not notice that the primary purpose of the whole dialogue is to discuss happiness rather than virtue; more precisely the purpose is to discuss what consequences various conceptions of justice or manners of life have for our understanding of what happiness is. This purpose is explicitly stated in Book V just prior to the introduction of the philosopher-king at 472c: "Our purpose was, with these models (of justice …

The Horns Of Dilemma: Dreaming And Waking Vision In The Theaetetus, Rosemary Desjardins

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

With these disarmingly simple words, addressed to Theaetetus towards the end of the dialogue named in his honor, Plato introduces what surely looks like a gratuitous puzzle. Occurring as an apparent digression just before the expected denouement of the discussion, the passage now known as Socrates' Dream is first elaborately developed, then to all intents and purposes elaborately, precisely, and definitively refuted. After which, the thread of the discussion is picked up where it was …

Cover And Table Of Contents, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Review

No abstract provided.

Socratic Psychotherapy, Anthony Preus

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

Was Socrates a psychotherapist? Attempting to answer this question may lead toward a better understanding of Socrates as reported by Plato (and perhaps by Aristophanes and Xenophon), and it may help to clarify our own notion of psychotheraphy. Contra, it may be argued that psychotherapy as we understand it was invented by Charcot and Freud, so it would be anachronistic to ascribe it to any of the ancients; interpreted, this means that our concept of …

The Two-Worlds Argument And The Development Of Plato’S Metaphysics, William J. Prior

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

In the final argument of the first part of the Parmenides, Plato raises an objection to the separate existence of Forms. This argument, which I shall call the "Two Worlds Argument" (TWA), takes up more space than any of the other arguments against the Theory of Forms (TF), occupying almost two Stephanos pages (133a-134e). It is, moreover, the only argument in the series about which Plato permits Parmenides to offer an editorial comment, the …

Birth And Death In Parmenides And Plato, David Gallop

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

At a turning point in the Phaedo (95e) Socrates says that the objections of his interlocutor, Cebes, call for a thorough inquiry into the reason (aitia) for coming-to-be (genesis) and destruction (phthora.) In this paper I wish to explore some philosophical antecedents of this inquiry, with a view to clarifying its significance in the Phaedo context, and ventilating it as a conceptual issue in its own right.

The Socratic Argument Against Akrasia In The Protagoras, Donald Zeyl

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

In a famous argument at the end of the Protagoras Socrates undertakes to show (a) that the thesis that one can act contrary to what one knows to be best is "absurd," given the explanation of such actions as being due to the agent's being "overcome by pleasure," and given the hedonistic standards of evaluation to which most people are committed; and (b) that the correct explanation of such actions is that they are due …

Plato’S Theaetetus As Dialectic, Ronald Polansky

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

Plato's Theaetetus, having episteme (knowledge or science) as its principal topic, attracts considerable interest. Two lines of interpretation dominate the literature. Each provides a way for explaining the two most prominent features of the dialogue — that it fails to define knowledge and that Socrates refrains from introducing the forms to help himself out. The majority of commentators, adhering to the standard view of Plato — that he has a doctrine of forms which …

Logical Truth In Plato, Robin Smith

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

In his works on the history of logic, I.M. Bochenski passes rather harsh judgment on Plato's practical competence in logic. His earlier Ancient Formal Logic claims that the dialogues are so full of "elementary blunders" that "the reading of them is almost intolerable to a logician." Some of the harshest censure has been removed from the later History of Formal Logic, but Bochenski still regards Plato as struggling inordinately hard to " solve logical …

Introduction, Jane S. Zembaty

University of Dayton Review

In the spring of 1981, the Philosophy Department of the University of Dayton held its 10th annual colloquium. The topic was Plato. Following its usual procedure, the department invited two prominent philosophers, David Gallop of Trent University and Nicholas P. White of the University of Michigan, to serve as Visiting Presiding Philosophers. It also sent out a call for papers. The eighty-plus papers submitted were subjected to blind reviewing; nine were selected for reading at the colloquium.

The Analysis Of “Being” In Plato, Henry Teloh

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

While ancient philosophers do not thematize the notion of existence, medieval philosophers do. Aristotle, for example, thinks that to be is to be in some category; it is to be predicatively something. Aquinas, on the other hand, because of a scriptural commitment to creationism, radically distinguishes necessary and contingent existents.

Front Matter, Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 1982), University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Law Review

Title page and table of contents, Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 1982)

Home Instruction: An Analysis Of The Statutes And Case Law, James W. Tobak, Perry A. Zirkel

University of Dayton Law Review

Contents: Introduction, statutory analysis, case law analysis (“no-exception” statutes, “equivalency” statutes, “explicit” statutes), summary and conclusions.

Anticipatory Breach And The Unilateral Contract: A Decade Of The Status Quo, Donald A. Wiesner, Janisse Klotchman

University of Dayton Law Review

The law on anticipatory breach has been called “difficult” for students and referred to as “pure joy to teachers intent upon persecuting their students.” With such characterizations, these writers could not resist the temptation to inspect decisions of the last decade to discover if additional nuances in the law of anticipatory breach have been revealed.

Such is the objective of this paper. It is an inquiry into case decisions of the past decade to determine whether what might be called an “exception to the exception” to the rule governing anticipatory breach has gained further support.

Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: When May A Mortgage Debtor Cure The Accelerated Mortgage Debt Using Section 1322(B)(5), Ann B. Miller

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

H.B. 351: An Ohio Urban Economic Development Strategy For The 1980'S — Tax Incentives For Inner City Businesses, Tricia A. Suttmann

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Antitrust Law: Evaluating Franchise Tie-Ins And Territorial Restraints In Dual Distribution Systems: A Return To The Rule Of Reason, Ellen S. Leffak

University of Dayton Law Review

Krehl v. Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Co., 664 F.2d 1348 (9th Cir. 1982).

The 1981 Afdc Amendments: Rhetoric And Reality, Michael Neuhardt

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Constitutonal Law: Quasi-Public Institution Not Protected From Fair Labor Standards Act By State Sovereignty Claim, Richard Zorn

University of Dayton Law Review

Williams v. Eastside Mental Health Center, Inc., 669 F.2d 671 (11th Cir. 1982), cert. denied, 51 U.S.L.W. 3335 (U.S. Nov. 2, 1982) (No. 82-207).

H.B. 440: Ohio Restructures Its Juvenile Justice System, Keith R. Kearney, Steven R. Smith

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Cash Discount Act: More Than Just A Matter Of Semantics, Betsy Horkovich

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Income Tax: Crane's Footnote 37 Revived, Lee A. Kintzel

University of Dayton Law Review

Tufts v. Commissioner, 651 F.2d 1058 (5th Cir. 1981), cert. granted, 102 S. Ct. 2034 (1982).

Bioethics And Law: Cases, Materials And Problems (By Michael H. Shapiro And Roy G. Spece Jr.), Marshall B. Kapp

University of Dayton Law Review

Much has been written concerning the desirability of teaching health profession students about bioethics, and several texts have been published to assist in that endeavor. Similarly, the virtues of including courses in medical jurisprudence in the law school curriculum have been widely accepted, and there are at least three fine casebooks in this field to which teachers and students may turn. Additionally, a number of volumes, predominantly of the anthology type, attempt to combine in one work the subjects of bioethics and the law. Some of these books may be found useful for the classroom, where increasingly these two distinct …

Collective Bargaining Agreements Without Arbitration Clauses: Does The Finality Doctrine Bar Section 301 Suits?, Ronald L. Mason

University of Dayton Law Review

A recent survey of collective bargaining agreements demonstrated that the parties to those agreements provided for a grievance procedure that included an arbitration proceeding in 96% of the cases surveyed. In this overwhelming number of cases, the employee may sue an employer for breach of contract under section 301 of the National Labor Relations Act (the Act), or follow a grievance procedure. In the latter instance, the employee is bound by the arbitration and its reward. The application of the finality doctrine to these cases is clear, fair, and established.

This is not true with respect to the remaining four …