Stephen R L Clark

Datos Biográficos

ID362906
NOMBREStephen R L Clark
NOMBRESStephen R L
APELLIDOClark
FIRMACLARK S R L
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Liverpool
ORCID0000-0001-9201-9013
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS58
TOTAL DE CITAS15
TOTAL COMO AUTOR56
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1975
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
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  • Values and facts and fancies

    Open AccessStephen R L ClarkARTICLEReligious Studies2026Referencias: 4

    An examination of the apparent gap – familiar in many branches of philosophy – between ‘the facts’ and ‘values’, focusing especially on Sam Gamgee’s perception of ‘Earendil’s Star’ and the real nature of ‘the planet Venus’: Is it possible to trust in the awe and admiration we may feel towards ‘the heavens’ in the light of current astronomical theory about the wider world? How can humane values, including love of beauty, survive in an inhumanly in…

  • Participation in the Divine

    Open AccessJessica Dillon, Margaret Barker et al.BOOKParticipation in the Divine2024

    The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions. It is how thinkers throughout history have justified existence itself, explaining temporal being vis-à-vis God. Yet in the wake of secularisation and the widespread phenomenon of disenchantment, this once ubiquitous and coveted notion has fallen into desuetude. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key co…

  • Metaphors and Realities

    Open AccessStephen R L ClarkARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    The notion that metaphorical statements are strictly false suggests that all statements, even those that seemed 'literal', are false, as none can 'literally' reflect reality.Statements about what we perceive or could perceive rely on evoking sensory images of such 'visibles', even though we have no direct access to what others, may perceive.In addition to what is visible, we must also deal with 'invisibilia' (both the fantasms that respectable mo…

  • Plotinus

    Open AccessStephen R L ClarkCHAPTERGreek Memories2019

  • Animals in Religion

    Stephen R L Clark, Linda KalofCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Animal…2017

    Both “animals” and “religion” are contentious concepts, with many possible meanings and associations. This chapter takes animals to be eukaryotes distinct from protists, plants and fungi, and “religion” as the attempt to “live a dream.” I describe four principal ways of dreaming animals: triumphalist humanism (for which only “human” beings are of any interest); traditional notions of good husbandry (which requires “human” beings to care for the n…

  • Plotinus

    Stephen R L ClarkBOOKPlotinus2016

  • Late pagan alternatives

    Open AccessStephen R L ClarkARTICLEReligious Studies2016

    Philosophical pagans in late antiquity charged Christians with believing ‘without evidence’, but were themselves accused of arbitrariness in their initial choice of philosophical school. Stoics and Platonists in particular adopted a form of cosmic religion that Christians criticized on rationalistic as well as sectarian grounds. The other charge levelled against Christians was that they had abandoned ancestral creeds in arrogant disregard of an e…

  • Gary Michael Atkinson, Our Search with Socrates for Moral Truth

    Open AccessStephen R L Clark, Stephen Clark et al.ARTICLETheology2016

  • Divine Essence and Divine Energies

    Stephen R L ClarkARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2014

    Over half a century ago, according to Eric L. Mascall, ‘the Thomist and the Palamite/Were walking hand in hand./Each did his very best to make/The other understand./“If only we could both agree,”/They said, “It would be grand”’(Mascall 1959). Western philosophical theologians—theists and atheists alike—have, till very recently, taken Aquinas as their guide, or at any rate their model (even when they fervently disagreed with his arguments and conc…

  • Philosophy as a Way of Life

    Open AccessPierre Hadot, John M Chase et al.BOOKPhilosophy As a Way of Life2013

  • Philosophy As a Way of Life

    Aleka Chase, Michael Chase et al.BOOKPhilosophy As a Way of Life2013

  • Animals in Classical and Late Antique Philosophy

    Stephen R L ClarkCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of animal…2012

    This article explores a large array of conceptions and theories in the ancient world, with an emphasis on what the ancients thought of both themselves and the other “animals.” The scope is immense in terms of leading schools of philosophy: the Pre-Socratics, the Golden Age of Athens, the Hellenistic period, and the Late Antique period. One generalization that does seem to hold is that non-human animals were commonly viewed as foils—beastly in hab…

  • Townships, Brigands and a Shared Religion

    Stephen R L Clark, Stephen RL ClarkARTICLEGriffith Law Review2012

    The modern state is not the only, or the most 'natural', form of polity: older forms of socio-political organisation have not been so centralised, territorial or authoritarian. Townships, churches and professional associations all focus the loyalty of their members, and states trade on those loyalties and ideals to secure their power. In the absence of such central power, it may seem that 'anything goes', especially with respect to creatures that…

  • Ancient Mediterranean philosophy

    Stephen R L ClarkBOOKAncient Mediterranean philosophy2012

  • Moments of Truth

    Stephen R L ClarkARTICLEThe European Legacy2012

    Why is Plotinus relevant to a study of marginality? On the one hand, moderns have marginalized the Platonic tradition. On the other, it is our “common sense” that—on Plotinus's account at least—distracts us from the real, and better, world. We could have learned the same lesson even from modern naturalistic science, which seems to show that we live on the margins, in a universe far older, grimmer and more mysterious than we can easily imagine, bu…

  • Plato's Philosophers

    Stephen R L Clark, Stephen Clark et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal for the History…2011

    Catherine H. Zuckert: Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 896. £31.00, $45.00 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-226-99338-6 Catherine Zuckert's pri...

  • Imaginary futures and moral possibilities

    Open AccessStephen R L ClarkARTICLEInternational Social Science…2011Referencias: 5

  • Late Antique Epistemology

    Open AccessS Clark, Panayiota Vassilopoulou et al.BOOKLate Antique Epistemology2009

    Late Antique Epistemology explores the techniques used by late antique philosophers to discuss truth. Non-rational ways to discover truth, or to reform the soul, have usually been thought inferior to

  • Plotinus on Intellect - Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson

    Stephen R L Clark, Stephen Clark et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2009

    Journal Article Plotinus on Intellect – Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson Get access Plotinus on Intellect. Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. Pp. viii + 232. Price £39.00.) Stephen Clark Stephen Clark University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 235, April 2009, Pages 357–359, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2009.618_1.x Published:…

  • Deconstructing the Laws of Logic

    Open AccessStephen R L ClarkARTICLEPhilosophy2008

    I consider reasons for questioning ‘the laws of logic’ (identity, non-contradiction, excluded middle, and negation), and suggest that these laws do not accord with everyday reality. Either they are rhetorical tools rather than absolute truths, or else Plato and his successors were right to think that they identify a reality distinct from the ordinary world of experience, and also from the ultimate source of reality.

  • Respecting Sentient Beings

    Open AccessStephen R L Clark, Stephen ClarkARTICLEOrganization & Environment2006

  • Martian Chronicles

    Open AccessStephen R L ClarkARTICLEMetascience2006

  • Central Works of Philosophy

    Open AccessHugh H Benson, Paula Gottlieb et al.BOOKCentral Works of Philosophy Vol. 12005

    CENTRAL WORKS OF PHILOSOPHY is a multi-volume set of essays on the core texts of the western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to the present day, the volumes range over 2,500 years of philosophical writing covering the best, most representative, and most influential work of some of our greatest philosophers. Each essay has been specially commissioned and provides an overview of the work and clear and authoritative exposition of its …

  • Progress and the argument from evil

    Open AccessStephen R L ClarkARTICLEReligious Studies2004

    The argument from evil, though it is the most effective rhetorical argument against orthodox theism, fails to demonstrate its conclusion, since we are unavoidably ignorant whether there is more evil than could possibly be justified. That same ignorance infects any claims to discern a divine purpose in nature, as well as recent attempts at a broadly Irenaean theodicy. Evolution is not, on neo-Darwinian theory, intellectually, morally, or spiritual…

  • Slaves, Servility and Noble Deeds

    Stephen R L Clark, Philosophical InquiryARTICLEPhilosophical Inquiry2003Citada por: 1