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Full-Text Articles in History of Philosophy
Aristotle's Analytic Tools, Mary Mulhern
Aristotle's Analytic Tools, Mary Mulhern
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Aristotle developed analytic tools to deal with conceptual difficulties that were important in his time. Some of these tools are his explicit analysis of homonymy, his eightfold classification of subjects and predicates and its elaboration into the predicaments and predicables, his syntactical analysis of ordinary language sentences, and his construction of a formal language for deductive and demonstrative syllogistic. Some of these conceptual difficulties are traceable to theories of Ideas, in which definitory predicates were not distinguished from non-definitory ones, as for instance in Hypothesis V of the Parmenides, where it is argued that the (non-existent) one is not equal …
Studying Mathematics For The Sake Of The Good, Andrew Payne
Studying Mathematics For The Sake Of The Good, Andrew Payne
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
In the Republic, Socrates describes the good as the end of all human action: “Every soul pursues the good and does what it does for its sake. It divines that the good is something but it is perplexed and cannot adequately grasp what it is or acquire the sort of stable beliefs it has about other things, and so it misses the benefits, if any, that even those other things may give.” I wish to examine how humans act for the sake of the good in the sections of the Republic following this passage. Human action is oriented toward the …
Sagp Newsletter 2007/8.1 (December), Anthony Preus
Sagp Newsletter 2007/8.1 (December), Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Includes the SAGP Programs with the Eastern Division (December 28, 2007) in Baltimore, with the American Philological Association (January 4, 2008) in Chicago, with the Pacific Division (March 2008) in Pasadena, and with the Central Division (April 2008) in Chicago.
Review: Exploring Protestant Traditions: An Invitation To Hospitality, James A. Borland
Review: Exploring Protestant Traditions: An Invitation To Hospitality, James A. Borland
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Sagp/Ssips 2007 Abstract Collection, Anthony Preus
Sagp/Ssips 2007 Abstract Collection, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
This is a collection of abstracts from the 2007 SAGP/SSIPS conference, in alphabetical order by name of author.
The Old And New Man In Ephesians 4:17-24, Lance T. Beauchamp
The Old And New Man In Ephesians 4:17-24, Lance T. Beauchamp
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Aristotle On Mathematical Existence, Phil Corkum
Aristotle On Mathematical Existence, Phil Corkum
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Do mathematical objects exist in some realm inaccessible to our senses? It may be tempting to deny this. For one thing, how we could come to know mathematical truths, if such knowledge must arise from causal interaction with non-empirical objects? However, denying that mathematical objects exist altogether has unsettling consequences. If you deny the existence of mathematical objects, then you must reject all claims that commit you to such objects, which means rejecting much of mathematics as it is standardly understood. For, as David Papineau (1990) vividly puts it, it is doublethink to deny that mathematical objects exist but to …
On The (In)Consistency Of Aristotle's Philosophy Of Time, Tiberiu Popa
On The (In)Consistency Of Aristotle's Philosophy Of Time, Tiberiu Popa
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Aristotle’s mind-dependence theory of time is considerably more than an eccentric afterthought formulated in a short passage, as many believe; rather, it is firmly anchored in Physics IV, especially in Ch. 11. A number of formulations that may seem purely epistemic or propaedeutic in nature do in fact have ontological significance, pointing to the fact that time’s existence hinges crucially on our capacity to perceive change. Aristotle seems to be echoed in crucial respects by contemporary theories of time, notably by A. Grünbaum’s.
Socrates's Great Escape: Philosophy And Politics In The Crito, Matthew King
Socrates's Great Escape: Philosophy And Politics In The Crito, Matthew King
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Many contemporary students of Plato hold that the arguments Socrates gives the personified Laws in the Crito do not represent Socrates’s own views, but rather work on assumptions to which Crito adheres, but Socrates does not. But if the Laws’ arguments are not Socrates’s own, then we seem to be left with a bewildering problem: why would Plato provide us with arguments that Socrates does not believe in, for a conclusion which Socrates evidently does believe in? After all, Socrates does remain in prison to face his execution; evidently, he believes that that is what he ought to do. This …
The Tension Between Altruistic Character And Self-Serving Possession In A Classical Socio-Political Ethic, Jeremy S. Neill
The Tension Between Altruistic Character And Self-Serving Possession In A Classical Socio-Political Ethic, Jeremy S. Neill
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Much of the Nicomachean Ethics treats egocentrism as an ineffectual and pernicious social vice out of which humans ought to be habituated. In the Politics self-centeredness is almost universally portrayed as a useful and enduring constituent of human psychology. The system of private property described in the Politics can hardly be a necessary social institution when Aristotle claims in the Ethics that the habituation process is capable of permanently fixing our attention upon public and altruistic fiscal ventures. This interpretive discrepancy between the two texts demonstrates that Aristotle’s defense of private property is ineffectual in its attempt to preserve the …
The Philosophical Approach To God: A New Thomistic Perspective, 2nd Edition, W. Norris Clarke, S.J.
The Philosophical Approach To God: A New Thomistic Perspective, 2nd Edition, W. Norris Clarke, S.J.
Philosophy & Theory
This book is a revised and expanded edition of three lectures delivered by the author at Wake Forest University in 1979. Long out of print, in its new edition it should be a valuable resource for scholars and teachers of the philosophy of religion.
The first two lectures, after a critique of the incompleteness of St. Thomas Aquinas’s famous Five Ways of arguing for the existence of God, explore lesser-known resources of Aquinas’s philosophical ascent of the mind to God: the unrestricted dynamism of the human spirit as it reaches toward the fullness of being, and the strictly metaphysical ascent …
Review: 'Challenging Liberalism: Feminism As Political Critique', Rebecca Whisnant
Review: 'Challenging Liberalism: Feminism As Political Critique', Rebecca Whisnant
Philosophy Faculty Publications
In Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique, Lisa Schwartzman brings her sharp interpretive and critical perspective to bear on the vexed relationship between feminism and liberal political philosophy. Noting (as have others before her) that the latter's central values -- such as autonomy, individual rights, and equality -- are both indispensable to and sometimes problematic for feminism, Schwartzman argues that these values must be reinterpreted in light of the insights gained from an alternative, non-liberal, and specifically feminist philosophical methodology. In this book, she explains why such an alternative methodology is needed, outlines some of its distinctive features, and …
Sagp Newsletter 2006/7.2, Anthony Preus
Sagp Newsletter 2006/7.2, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Programs of the Society with the Pacific Division, April 7, 2007, in San Francisco, and with the Central Division, April 20, 2007, in Chicago.
Reports Relating To The Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting Of The Society, James A. Borland
Reports Relating To The Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting Of The Society, James A. Borland
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Memorials 2007, James A. Borland
Memorials 2007, James A. Borland
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Review: Shepherds After My Own Heart: Pastoral Traditions And Leadership In The Bible, Donald L. Fowler
Review: Shepherds After My Own Heart: Pastoral Traditions And Leadership In The Bible, Donald L. Fowler
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Review: Biblical Faith And Other Religions: An Evangelical Assessment, Michael S. Jones
Review: Biblical Faith And Other Religions: An Evangelical Assessment, Michael S. Jones
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Global Feminist Ethics: Feminist Ethics And Social Theory, Rebecca Whisnant, Peggy Desautels
Global Feminist Ethics: Feminist Ethics And Social Theory, Rebecca Whisnant, Peggy Desautels
Philosophy Faculty Publications
This volume contains four sections, the first of which examines some of the special moral concerns that arise from assigning distinct activities and responsibilities to women and men respectively. It is difficult to argue against the view that women and not men are the birth-givers. But it is also true that death rates tied to pregnancy and birth-giving are unacceptably high in developing countries. Are women better off giving birth in hospitals with attending physicians (often male) or in homes with attending midwives (usually female)? Which approach should be "exported" to the developing world?
In the first chapter, "Exporting Childbirth," …
Resembling Nothing: Image And Being In Plato, Yancy Hughes Dominick
Resembling Nothing: Image And Being In Plato, Yancy Hughes Dominick
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
A crucial application of Plato’s views on the use of images in philosophy occurs through the use of the image relationship as an image for the relation of forms and particulars. The relation of a picture to the object it depicts, or that between a reflection and what it reflects, can be seen as analogous to the relation of a particular to the form in which it participates. Although the attack on the image model as analogous to the relation of forms and particulars in the Parmenides threatens to undermine any reliance on that model, this essay will present a …
Vico’S New Science Of Interpretation: Beyond Philosophical Hermeneutics And The Hermeneutics Of Suspicion, David Ingram
Vico’S New Science Of Interpretation: Beyond Philosophical Hermeneutics And The Hermeneutics Of Suspicion, David Ingram
Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The article situates Vico's hermeneutical science of history between a hermeneutics of suspicion (Ricoeur, Habermas, Freud) and a redemptive hermeneutics (Gadamer, Benjamin). It discusses Vico's early writings and his ambivalent trajectory from Cartesian rationalism to counter-enlightenment historicist and critic of natural law reasoning. The complexity of Vico's thinking belies some of the popular treatments of his thought developed by Isaiah Berlin and others.
On The Intellectual Sources Of Laïcité: Rousseau, Constant, And The Debates About A National Religion, Helena Rosenblatt
On The Intellectual Sources Of Laïcité: Rousseau, Constant, And The Debates About A National Religion, Helena Rosenblatt
Publications and Research
That French Protestants gave strong support to laïcité is by now well established. In recent work, Patrick Cabanel has even made a compelling case for the Protestant sources of laïcité, placing particular emphasis on the Protestant entourage of Jules Ferry (1832-1893) and stressing the inspiration provided by the pro-Protestant intellectual, Edgar Quinet (1803-1875.)
This article suggests that we look even earlier in time for the intellectual sources of laïcité. Seminal ideas can be found in the writings of two liberal Protestants, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) and Benjamin Constant (1767-1830.) Rousseau is usually counted among the opponents, and not the …