Climate And Teleology In Aristotle's Physics Ii.8,
2011
Seattle University
Climate And Teleology In Aristotle's Physics Ii.8, Yancy Hughes Dominick
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Weather, including rain, happens as a result of natural and teleological processes, but that is compatible with the claim that rain falls not for the sake of something, but of necessity, and any benefit from the rain comes by chance. Aristotle need not embrace the conclusion, therefore, that it rains for the sake of the crops. Climate, on the other hand, is regular and beneficial. If the disjunct from Physics II.8 holds, climate ought to be for the sake of something even while rain is not.
Sagp Newsletter 2010/11.3 Pacific,
2011
Binghamton University
Sagp Newsletter 2010/11.3 Pacific, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Justice As Self-Transmitting Power And Just Acts In Republic 4,
2011
Saint Joseph's University
Justice As Self-Transmitting Power And Just Acts In Republic 4, Andrew Payne
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
In his influential paper “A Fallacy in Plato’s Republic,” David Sachs charged Plato with committing a fallacy of irrelevancy. Plato’s Socrates is asked to show that justice understood as acting in conformity with conventional morality, so-called vulgar justice, is beneficial to the just person. Socrates actually demonstrates something else, namely that psychic justice, a state of internal harmony between parts of the soul, is beneficial to its possessor. A generation of Plato scholarship has reacted to Sachs’ reading of the Republic by using discussions of moral psychology and education elsewhere in the dialogue to bridge the gap between psychic justice …
Sagp Newsletter 2010/11.2 Central,
2011
Binghamton University
Sagp Newsletter 2010/11.2 Central, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Shame And Conflict - Lysis's Philosophical Akrasia,
2011
Utrecht University
Shame And Conflict - Lysis's Philosophical Akrasia, L. Albert Joosse
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
We will see a conflict within Lysis between his newly stimulated love for wisdom and his habitual self-restraint. Born and raised an aristocrat, Lysis experiences conflict when his mind is enticed outside its wonted limits. What he experiences is, in fact, shame of himself: he notices that part of him falls short of the ideal he has been brought up with and to which part of him still adheres. His is a philosophical akrasia.
"Putting On The Neighbor": The Ciceronian Impulse In Luther's Christian Approach To Practical Reason,
2011
Luther Seminary
"Putting On The Neighbor": The Ciceronian Impulse In Luther's Christian Approach To Practical Reason, Gary M. Simpson
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Method In Catholic Studies,
2011
Seton Hall University
Method In Catholic Studies, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Changing Our Minds: Bernard Lonergan And Climate Change,
2011
Seton Hall University
Changing Our Minds: Bernard Lonergan And Climate Change, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's.,
2011
Seton Hall University
Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's., Randall Rosenberg
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Introduction To The Transaction Edition, The Genesis Of Winspear5s Thought,
2011
Binghamton University--SUNY
Introduction To The Transaction Edition, The Genesis Of Winspear5s Thought, Anthony Preus
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Catholicity And Faculty Seminars,
2011
Seton Hall University
Catholicity And Faculty Seminars, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Ignatius, Lonergan, And The Catholic University,
2011
Seton Hall University
Ignatius, Lonergan, And The Catholic University, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight. By Richard M. Liddy.,
2011
Seton Hall University
Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight. By Richard M. Liddy., Michael Mcguckian
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Neutrosophic Interpretation Of Tao Te Ching,
2011
University of New Mexico
Neutrosophic Interpretation Of Tao Te Ching, Florentin Smarandache, Fu Yuhua
Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications
The purpose of this book is to extend the foundation and application range of 'Tao Te Ching'. The reasons for this are as follows. Firstly, we are willing to point out that 'Tao Te Ching' already has some limitation, because many questions we are interested in cannot be answered within 'Tao Te Ching'. For example, 'Tao Te Ching' basically discussed the matters in China, however considering all possible situations it should matter in foreign countries as well, i.e. the “global village”. This was impossible in Lao Tzu’s time. Secondly, if the original “Tao Te Ching” is regarded as “Positive Tao …
Ceaselessly Testing The Good Of Death,
2010
The Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium),
Ceaselessly Testing The Good Of Death, Danielle A. Layne
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
The hope Socrates invokes during his defence becomes a statement to be tested and corroborated, and thus a catalyst for discovery rather than a valueless rejection of all arguments, beliefs or in Socratic terms “hopes.” In his prison cell Socrates tests the propositions in the Apology that death may be a good and in the Phaedo these arguments affirm Socrates’ hope, making it the more valuable belief. Thus since no man willing chooses evil, a valueless not knowing, over the good, the value-laden hope regardless of not-knowing, Socrates commits himself to the “great perhaps” of the immortality of the soul. …
A Religious Revolution? How Socrates' Theology Undermined The Practice Of Sacrifice,
2010
Stonehill College
A Religious Revolution? How Socrates' Theology Undermined The Practice Of Sacrifice, Anna Lannstrom
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Mark McPherran and Gregory Vlastos argue that Socrates’ theology threatened Athenian sacrificial practices because it rejected the do ut des principle (aka the principle of reciprocity). I argue that their arguments are flawed because they assume that the Athenians understood sacrifice as something like a commercial transaction. Drawing upon scholarship in anthropology and religious studies, I argue that we need to revise that understanding of sacrifice and that, once we do, McPherran’s and Vlastos’ arguments no longer show that Socrates would have been a significant threat to the practice of sacrifice. Finally, I argue that McPherran’s Socrates does undermine sacrifice, …
Plato’S Gorgias: Rhetoric, The Greatest Evil, And The True Art Of Politics,
2010
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Plato’S Gorgias: Rhetoric, The Greatest Evil, And The True Art Of Politics, Paul A. George
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The interweaving of rhetoric, the greatest evil, and the true art of politics create the unity of the dialogue. Whereas Gorgianic rhetoric is pleasure seeking flattery which inspires belief without knowledge, noble rhetoric is refutative, inspiring the acknowledgment of falsity or ignorance. Moreover, it is self-refutation, meaning that the person being persuaded arrives at the conclusion of his ignorance by his own realization; the noble rhetor does not connect all the dots for them. The greatest evil is to have a false opinion about justice. A just penalty for suffering from the greatest evil is to face selfrefutation in hopes …
Sagp Newsletter 2010/11.1 East Philol,
2010
Binghamton University
Sagp Newsletter 2010/11.1 East Philol, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Sagp/Ssips 2010 Program,
2010
Binghamton University
Sagp/Ssips 2010 Program, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Intelligible Matter In Aristotle,
2010
Western University
Intelligible Matter In Aristotle, John Thorp
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
The oxymoronic phrase ‘intelligible matter’ occurs three times in Aristotle. In two passages it has the same meaning; in the third the meaning seems radically different. This gives the impression that the Aristotelian language of metaphysics is distressingly slack. This paper argues, against the nearly unanimous voice of two millennia of commentaries, that ‘intelligible matter’ has the same meaning in all three loci. In doing so it develops a capital distinction that tightens up the apparatus of Aristotelian metaphysics.
