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1. International Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 49 > Issue: 1
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Sara Brill The Geography of Finitude: Myth and Earth in Plato’s Phaedo
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Plato’s use of afterlife myths is often viewed as an abandonment of rational discourse for a coercive practice designed to persuade citizens to be concerned about the condition of their souls by appealing to their worst fears about the afterlife. But such interpretations overlook the frequently critical tenor of Plato’s myths. In this paper I develop the claim that Plato appeals to muthos as a means of critiquing various specific logoi by focusing upon the relationship between the myth of the earth in the Phaedo and the four logoi about immortality that precede it. I argue that these logoi fail to be persuasive because they rely upon a construal of the relationship between body and soul that denies them meaningful reference to the lives and deaths of embodied beings. The myth of the earth provides a critical engagement with the perspective from which Socrates and his interlocutors have produced these logoi.
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Theodore Di Maria, Jr. Is Kant’s Theoretical Doctrine of the Self Consistent with His Thesis of Noumenal Ignorance?
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The relation between the concepts of the subject of apperception, the phenomenal self, and the noumenal self has long puzzled commentators on Kant’s theoretical account of the self. This paper argues that many of the puzzles surrounding Kant’s account can be resolved by treating the subject of apperception and other transcendental predicates of thinking as a dimension of the noumenal self. Yet this interpretation requires a clarification of how the transcendental predicates of thinking can be attributed to the noumenal self without violating the thesis of noumenal ignorance. The clarification is achieved through a careful analysis of the meaning of the latter thesis. The paper’s interpretation is then shown to be consistent with Kant’s rejection of traditional ontology and with the dual-aspect view. The paper’s final section argues that transcendental predicates are properly construed as logical predicates but must be distinguished from ordinary examples of the latter.
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John Russon Emotional Subjects: Mood and Articulation in Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind
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In his discussions of “sensibility” and “feeling,” Hegel has a compelling interpretation of the emotional foundations of experience. I begin by situating “mood” within the context of “sensibility,” and then focus on the inherently “outwardizing” or self-externalizing character of mood. I then consider the different modes of moody self-externalization, for the sake of determining why we express ourselves in language. I conclude by demonstrating why the notions of emotion and spirit are necessarily linked.
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Erin M. Cline Nameless Virtues and Restrained Speech in the Analects
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Examples of “nameless” virtues are discussed by Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics. They are also found in the Confucian Analects. This paper explores what makes a virtue nameless in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Analects, and then argues that restrained speech is best understood as a nameless virtue in the Analects. It further argues that the virtue of restrained speech merits careful study because it contributes to our understanding of nameless virtues generally, while also deepening our understanding of Kongzi’s ethics by showing why he thought it was important to cultivate certain virtues. Indeed, many of the things that make restrained speech valuable hold in a contemporary setting as well, making restrained speech a virtue that is important for us today.
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Ronald H. McKinney, S.J. The Jesuit Magis and the Ethics of Ceteris Paribus
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This article explores the relevance of the thought of Ignatius of Loyola regarding moral discernment of the magis for adjudicating the debate between traditionalists and proportionalists in contemporary Catholic ethical theory. The Ignatian criteria for discerning the magis have ceteris paribus qualifiers attached. The relevance of this type of qualifier for ethical theory in general is assessed by examining contemporary analytic philosophy’s quest to interpret what W. D. Ross means by prima facie obligations. The similarity between his thought and that of Ignatius is explored, as well as the resulting paradoxical implications for resolving the debate between traditionalists and proportionalists.
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Thomas S. Maloney Who Is the Author of the Summa Lamberti?
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Two persons have been proposed as the author of the Summa Lamberti, a thireenth-century treatise on logic. Franco Alessio takes him to be the Auxerre Dominican Lambert of Ligny-le-Châtel, and he basis his claim on Dominican sources from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Recently, Alain de Libera has presented a counter-proposal: the author was Lambert of Lagny, a secular cleric at the time of the composition, who afterwards became a Dominican. This claim is based on the acta of the counts of Champagne and a document of Pope Urban IV. I conclude that, given the present evidence, de Libera’s case rests on more historically sound data, but that to arrive at this conclusion one must impeach the Dominican sources (not done by de Libera) and take into consideration additional data from the research of Michèle Mulchahey on the introduction of logic into the Dominican curriculum.
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Jonathan J. Sanford Confronting Aristotle’s Ethics: Ancient and Modern Morality
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Timothy Valentine, S.J. Philosophy of Education: An Anthology
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Cristina Bucur Paul Ricoeur: De l’homme faillible à l’homme capable
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Peter A. Redpath The Vision of Gabriel Marcel: Epistemology, Human Person, the Transcendent
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Dominic Balestra Behind the Scenes at Galileo’s Trial, including the first English translation of Melchior Inchofer’s “Tractatus Syllepticus”
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Derek S. Jeffreys Legal Ethics and Human Dignity
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Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. Aquinas, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion: Metaphysics and Practice
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Christopher W. Gowans An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy
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Robert John Araujo, S.J. Rights
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James Stone Aquinas on the Divine Ideas as Exemplar Causes
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Paul Foster Responsibility
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Frederick Van Fleteren God and the Between
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Heather Battaly Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology
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