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1. Philosophical Inquiry: Volume > 40 > Issue: 3/4
D. Z. Andriopoulos Raphael Demos Biography
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Nickolas Pappas Two Myths of Philosophy’s Beginnings
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John P. Anton Aristotle on the Nature of Logos
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Theodore Scaltsas Metaphysical Models of the Mind in Aristotle
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Kevin Crotty “Man is a Breath and Shadow Only—An Image”: Tragedy and Republic 10
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Gerasimos Santas Justice, Law, and Women in Plato’s Republic
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Michael Naas Socrates in a Birmingham Jail: The Improbable Dialogue Between Raphael Demos, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Luther King, Jr
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Christos Y. Panayides Aristotle on Luck and Teleology: A Note on Physics II 5
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D. Z. Andriopoulos Comments on Aristotle's Theory of Causality
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Thanassis Samaras The Best City in Aristotle’s Politics
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Paul Schollmeier Aristotle on Comedy
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Dionysios A. Anapolitanos The Problem of Knowledge in the Theaetetus
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Erjus Mezini The Problem of Justice in Plato’s Republic
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Plato’s account of justice in the Republic has been questioned by David Sachs, who charges Plato for committing a fallacy of irrelevance. Sachs’ objection is built on the assumption that Plato has employed two accounts of justice: a vulgar one, and a Platonic one. Insofar as Socrates’ interlocutors hold a vulgar conception, then Socrates should prove to them that being vulgarly just will be benefi cial to them. But Socrates, according to Sachs, never does that. Through emphasizing the dialogues of Socrates with his interlocutors, this essay shows incorrect the assumption that Plato is holding two accounts of justice. The dialogues in the Republic demonstrate that there are vulgar confusions, rather than a vulgar ideology. Furthermore, through defi ning justice as the dominance of reason over humans and politics, and through relating reason to the Good, Plato leaves open the possibility that some vulgar actions conform to his account of justice.
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Raphael Demos A Discussion of a Certain Type of Negative Proposition
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Raphael Demos Αί Θεμελιώδεις Ἔννοιαι τῆς Μεταφυσικῆς τοῦ Πλάτωνος
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16. Philosophical Inquiry: Volume > 40 > Issue: 1/2
Alexander Nehamas Gregory Vlastos
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David Keyt The Mad Craftsman of the Timaeus
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Odysseus Makridis The Confusion of Logical Types in Plato's Parmenides
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Theodore Scaltsas Weakness of Will in Aristotle's Ethics
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Gianluigi Segalerba Das Monster in Uns
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The essay consists in the analysis of the problem of the evil in the man and in the analysis of the remedies which the man can find against the evil. Plato affirms the presence of an active principle of evil in the soul of every man, which coincides with some instincts of the appetitive soul; the opposite principle to the evil is the reason, which needs, though, a correct education in order to be able to fight efficiently against the evil in us. The man can be seen as a battle field of these opposite forces. Plato describes the presence of the evil in us in some passages of Republic Book 9, where he compares the appetitive part of the soul with a monster. The destiny of every person in her earthly existence consists in the continuing control of the appetitive part of the soul, if the status of ethical education is to be reached and maintained. The man who remains in the realm of the opinion, that is, in the realm of the doxa is an individual who only disposes of unstable opinions and who as a consequence do not have authentic remedies against the appetitive part. On the contrary, the individual who can ascend to the realm of being through the hard education represented by arithmetic, geometry, stereometry, astronomy, harmony and, finally, dialectic is really able to contrast the force of the evil within the individual. Ethics is really possible only through the complete education which passes through these disciplines: the more the individuals is theoretically educated, the more the individual is ethically educated. The knowledge of ideas is the only authentic therapy against the evil in us.