Rachel Barney
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1102628 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rachel Barney |
| NOMBRES | Rachel |
| APELLIDO | Barney |
| FIRMA | BARNEY R |
| AFILIACIONES | 1McGill University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
Cicero composed the Tusculan Disputations in the summer of 45 BC at a time of great personal and political turmoil. He was grieving for the death of his daughter Tullia earlier that year, while Caesar's defeat of Pompey's forces at Munda and return to Rome as dictator was causing him great fears and concerns for himself, his friends and the Republic itself. This collection of new essays offers a holistic critical commentary on this important work…
Socrates and the Ethic of Resistance
I respond to Sarah Buss first by considering Socrates as an exemplar of courageous resistance to injustice, then by adding two caveats: exemplary resistance seems to flow from very diverse psychological profiles, and cowardice may not always be best understood as expressing fearful self‐attachment
Gorgias’s Encomium of Helen
Gorgias’s Helen is one of the earliest and most enigmatic Greek philosophical texts. An epideoxis, or set-piece speech, it’s a pioneering argument about moral responsibility and a fascinating Sophist argument for the power of language [logos]. In it, Gorgias attempts to show that the beautiful Helen of Troy, whose adultery and flight with Paris was the proximate cause of the Trojan War, should suffer no unjust blame for the war nonetheless. If ei…
Colloquium 2 What Kind of Theory is the Theory of the Tripartite Soul?
This paper discusses two related questions about Plato’s account of the tripartite soul in the Republic and Phaedrus . One is whether we should accept the recently prominent ‘analytical’ reading of the theory, according to which the three parts of the soul are animal-like sub-agents, each with its own distinctive and autonomous package of cognitive and desiderative capacities. The other question is how far Plato’s account so interpreted resembles…
Plato and the Divided Self
Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It presents human nature as both essentially multiple and diverse - and yet somehow also one - divided into a fully human 'rational' part, a lion-like 'spirited part' and an 'appetitive' part likened to a many-headed beast. How these parts interact, how exac…
Notes on Plato on the Kalon and the Good
Plato on the Desire for the Good
In a number of dialogues, Plato affirms in various ways that human desire is for the good.In the Protagoras, Socrates proposes that "no one who knows or believes there is something else better than what he is doing, something possible, will go on doing what he had been doing when he could be doing what is better" (358b7-c1). 1 Likewise, "No one goes willingly toward the bad or what he believes to be bad; neither is it in human nature, so it seems…
Aristotle’S Argument for a Human Function
In the famous ‘function argument’ of Nicomachean Ethics 1. 7 (1097b22–1098a18) Aristotle gives an outline account of human virtue and happiness by relating them to our function or work [ ergon ]. If something has a function, he argues, its function determines what counts as ‘the good and the well’ for that thing. Human beings do have a function; and since the function of a thing consists in the activity proper to or characteristic of it, the huma…
Pursuing the Good
Socrates' Refutation of Thrasymachus
Theoria Referees
A Puzzle In Stoic Ethics
This paper is an expression of perplexity. Recent decades have seen immense scholarly progress in our understanding of Stoicism; yet on some fundamental points the structure of Stoic moral theory remains, to me at any rate, quite obscure. This is true in particular of the Stoic doctrine of the ‘indifferents’[ineq], a doctrine so central to Stoicism that the puzzle I will be raising about it can also be phrased as the following general question: ‘…
Plato the Myth Maker
Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus
This study offers a ckomprehensive new interpretation of one of Plato's dialogues, the Cratylus. Throughout, the book combines analysis of Plato's arguments with attentiveness to his philosophical method.
Platonic Ethics, Old and New
The Townsend Lectures Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics-and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development o…
Platonic Ethics, Old and New
Commentary on Rist
Plato on Conventionalism
A new reading of Plato's account of conventionalism about names in the Cratylus. It argues that Hermogenes' position, according to which a name is whatever anybody 'sets down' as one, does not have the counterintuitive consequences usually claimed. At the same time, Plato's treatment of conventionalism needs to be related to his treatment of formally similar positions in ethics and politics. Plato is committed to standards of objective natural co…
Appearances and Impressions
Pyrrhonian sceptics claim, notoriously, to assent to the appearances without making claims about how things are. To see whether this is coherent we need to consider the philosophical history of ‘appearance’(phainesthai)-talk, and the closely related concept of an impression (phantasia). This history suggests that the sceptics resemble Plato in lacking the ‘non-epistemic’ or ‘non-doxastic’ conception of appearance developed by Aristotle and the St…
Appearances and Impressions
Pyrrhonian sceptics claim, notoriously, to assent to the appearances without making claims about how things are. To see whether this is coherent we need to consider the philosophical history of ‘appearance’(phainesthai)-talk, and the closely related concept of an impression (phantasia). This history suggests that the sceptics resemble Plato in lacking the ‘non-epistemic’ or ‘non-doxastic’ conception of appearance developed by Aristotle and the St…
Plato on Conventionalism
A new reading of Plato's account of conventionalism about names in the Cratylus. It argues that Hermogenes' position, according to which a name is whatever anybody 'sets down' as one, does not have the counterintuitive consequences usually claimed. At the same time, Plato's treatment of conventionalism needs to be related to his treatment of formally similar positions in ethics and politics. Plato is committed to standards of objective natural co…
Appearances and Impressions
Pyrrhonian sceptics claim, notoriously, to assent to the appearances without making claims about how things are. To see whether this is coherent we need to consider the philosophical history of ‘appearance’(phainesthai)-talk, and the closely related concept of an impression (phantasia). This history suggests that the sceptics resemble Plato in lacking the ‘non-epistemic’ or ‘non-doxastic’ conception of appearance developed by Aristotle and the St…
Plato on Conventionalism
A new reading of Plato's account of conventionalism about names in the Cratylus. It argues that Hermogenes' position, according to which a name is whatever anybody 'sets down' as one, does not have the counterintuitive consequences usually claimed. At the same time, Plato's treatment of conventionalism needs to be related to his treatment of formally similar positions in ethics and politics. Plato is committed to standards of objective natural co…
Commentary on Rist
Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus
This study offers a ckomprehensive new interpretation of one of Plato's dialogues, the Cratylus. Throughout, the book combines analysis of Plato's arguments with attentiveness to his philosophical method.
Platonic Ethics, Old and New
The Townsend Lectures Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics-and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development o…
Platonic Ethics, Old and New
Plato the Myth Maker
A Puzzle In Stoic Ethics
This paper is an expression of perplexity. Recent decades have seen immense scholarly progress in our understanding of Stoicism; yet on some fundamental points the structure of Stoic moral theory remains, to me at any rate, quite obscure. This is true in particular of the Stoic doctrine of the ‘indifferents’[ineq], a doctrine so central to Stoicism that the puzzle I will be raising about it can also be phrased as the following general question: ‘…
Socrates' Refutation of Thrasymachus
Theoria Referees
Pursuing the Good
Aristotle’S Argument for a Human Function
In the famous ‘function argument’ of Nicomachean Ethics 1. 7 (1097b22–1098a18) Aristotle gives an outline account of human virtue and happiness by relating them to our function or work [ ergon ]. If something has a function, he argues, its function determines what counts as ‘the good and the well’ for that thing. Human beings do have a function; and since the function of a thing consists in the activity proper to or characteristic of it, the huma…
Notes on Plato on the Kalon and the Good
Plato on the Desire for the Good
In a number of dialogues, Plato affirms in various ways that human desire is for the good.In the Protagoras, Socrates proposes that "no one who knows or believes there is something else better than what he is doing, something possible, will go on doing what he had been doing when he could be doing what is better" (358b7-c1). 1 Likewise, "No one goes willingly toward the bad or what he believes to be bad; neither is it in human nature, so it seems…
Plato and the Divided Self
Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It presents human nature as both essentially multiple and diverse - and yet somehow also one - divided into a fully human 'rational' part, a lion-like 'spirited part' and an 'appetitive' part likened to a many-headed beast. How these parts interact, how exac…
Gorgias’s Encomium of Helen
Gorgias’s Helen is one of the earliest and most enigmatic Greek philosophical texts. An epideoxis, or set-piece speech, it’s a pioneering argument about moral responsibility and a fascinating Sophist argument for the power of language [logos]. In it, Gorgias attempts to show that the beautiful Helen of Troy, whose adultery and flight with Paris was the proximate cause of the Trojan War, should suffer no unjust blame for the war nonetheless. If ei…
Colloquium 2 What Kind of Theory is the Theory of the Tripartite Soul?
This paper discusses two related questions about Plato’s account of the tripartite soul in the Republic and Phaedrus . One is whether we should accept the recently prominent ‘analytical’ reading of the theory, according to which the three parts of the soul are animal-like sub-agents, each with its own distinctive and autonomous package of cognitive and desiderative capacities. The other question is how far Plato’s account so interpreted resembles…
Socrates and the Ethic of Resistance
I respond to Sarah Buss first by considering Socrates as an exemplar of courageous resistance to injustice, then by adding two caveats: exemplary resistance seems to flow from very diverse psychological profiles, and cowardice may not always be best understood as expressing fearful self‐attachment
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
Cicero composed the Tusculan Disputations in the summer of 45 BC at a time of great personal and political turmoil. He was grieving for the death of his daughter Tullia earlier that year, while Caesar's defeat of Pompey's forces at Munda and return to Rome as dictator was causing him great fears and concerns for himself, his friends and the Republic itself. This collection of new essays offers a holistic critical commentary on this important work…
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