Roslyn Wei
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3875160 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Roslyn Wei |
| NOMBRES | Roslyn |
| APELLIDO | Wei |
| FIRMA | WEI R |
| AFILIACIONES | Lehigh University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2636-688X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1940 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Crescas
Maimonides on Perfecting Perfection
This article addresses two critical questions concerning Maimonides's views on human perfection at the end of his Guide of the Perplexed . The first is: For those who have reached the highest category of perfection—intellectual perfection, apprehension of the divine, the divine science—what prescription does Maimonides offer for perfecting that perfection, for solidifying the bond between them and God? I will argue: 1) that there is more than one…
Loving One's Enemies
Arthur Melzer in Philosophy Between the Lines eloquently and illuminatingly describes the various forms of esotericism and their ends. Yet he also contends that it is not until the modern period that philosophers concern themselves with the intellectual and moral advancement of ordinary people. Philosophers of earlier periods, Melzer argues, defend philosophers from their opponents, protect the mass of men from dangerous and destabilizing truths,…
The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic
This Companion provides a comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general. The sixteen essays, by authors who represent various academic disciplines, bring a spectrum of interpretive approaches to bear in order to aid the understanding of a wide-ranging audience, from first-time readers of the Republic who require guidance, to more exp…
Natural Order or Divine Will
In Guide 2.32 Maimonides notes that just as there are three opinions concerning prophecy (as discussed earlier in 2:13), so are there three opinions concerning cosmogony. Scholars have tended to assume that Maimonides, despite what he says, must have seen some more important correspondence between the two sets of opinions than their number. I argue that although for Maimonides what the two sets of opinions have in common is indeed their number, w…
Virtue in the Cave
Chapter 1 Introduction: In the Cave Chapter 2 Chapter One. The Struggle over Definition Chapter 3 Chapter Two. Impasse, Paradox, and the Myth of Learning by Recollection Chapter 4 Chapter Three. The Slave-Boy: Learning by Demonstration Chapter 5 Chapter Four. The Road to Larisa: Knowledge, True Opinion, and Eudoxia Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Examined Life Chapter 7 Appendix I: Recollection in the Phaedo Chapter 8 Appendix II: The Abandonment of Mo…
Socrates Dissatisfied
Virtue in the cave
The central question of Plato's Meno is "What is virtue?" However, its epistemological and metaphysical concerns - as evidenced by "Meno's paradox" (which asks how inquiry is possible if knowledge is not present at the outset) and by "recollection" (which constitutes Socrates' answer to it) - suggest to scholars that the Meno marks the transition from Plato's early "Socratic" period to his middle, more "Platonic" one. Moreover, the Meno's quasi-m…
Saadiah on Divine Grace and Human Suffering
Socrates Dissatisfied
The personified Laws in the Crito who make the case for Socrates' remaining in prison and accepting his execution rather than fleeing at the urging of his friend Crito, speak not, as is generally thought, for Socrates, but represent instead the city of Athens and its laws. The Laws are, indeed, in style and substance, Socrates' adversaries: whereas Socrates defends dialectically the claim of the individual to exercise and follow his own reason, t…
Hedonism in the Protagoras and the Sophist’s Guarantee
"Maimonides on "Shilluaḥ Ha-Qen
Euthyphro's Failure
Euthyphro's Failure ROSLYN WEISS THE EvTHYPnRO FAXLSto reach a definition of holiness. It considers several possibilities; it appears at one point to be on the verge of discovering the elusive definition,' yet it dissolves ultimately into the familiar aporia. The question is: why? Although the dialogue's failure to define holiness is attributable in large measure to Euthyphro's conceit, to his lack of prior philosophical reflection in an area in …
Ignorance, Involuntariness, and Innocence
In a most valuable recent article, on Desire for the Good and the Involuntariness of Wrongdoing: Gorgias 466a-468e,' Kevin McTighe challenges a misguided but widely accepted interpretation of the Socratic paradox 'No one does wrong voluntarily'. According to McTighe, this interpretation has the paradox rely on the blatantly counterintuitive notion that what one desires is distinct from what seems good to one (when that is not in fact good). McTig…
Socrates and Protagoras on Justice and Holiness
PROTAGORAS 330c-331E, WHICH ADDRESSES the relationship between justice and holiness, has been widely discussed and criticized, but uniformly on the assumption that Socrates' intention in this dialogue is to establish his own doctrine of the unity of the virtues.' I propose in this paper an interpretation of Protagoras 330c-331e that treats the argument it contains (a) as ad hominem, i.e., as testing Protagoras' claims and probing his words, and h…
Ο 'Αγαθός As ΌΔυνατός in the Hippias Minor
This paper is an attempt so to construe the arguments of the Hippias Minor as to remove the justification for regarding it as unworthy of Plato either because of its alleged fallaciousness and Sophistic mode of argument or because of its alleged immorality. It focuses, therefore, only on the arguments and their conclusions, steering clear of the dialogue's dramatic and literary aspects. Whereas I do not wish to deny the importance of these aspect…
Aristotle's Criticism of Eudoxan Hedonism
The Perils of Personhood
The Sienese Philologists of the Cinquecento —A Bibliographical Introduction
Primarily a student of the Middle Ages, my old friendship with Professor Bullock has driven me to search among old notes and papers in the hope of finding materials for a study connected with the period he had so thoroughly made his own. To write on some topic connected with the CINQUECENTO is only fitting in a publication dedicated to his memory. Hence my choice of what is, perhaps too ambitiously, styled ‘a bibliographical introduction,’ and wh…
The Journal of David Garrick Describing His Visit to France and Italy in 1763
Ignorance, Involuntariness, and Innocence
In a most valuable recent article, on Desire for the Good and the Involuntariness of Wrongdoing: Gorgias 466a-468e,' Kevin McTighe challenges a misguided but widely accepted interpretation of the Socratic paradox 'No one does wrong voluntarily'. According to McTighe, this interpretation has the paradox rely on the blatantly counterintuitive notion that what one desires is distinct from what seems good to one (when that is not in fact good). McTig…
Socrates and Protagoras on Justice and Holiness
PROTAGORAS 330c-331E, WHICH ADDRESSES the relationship between justice and holiness, has been widely discussed and criticized, but uniformly on the assumption that Socrates' intention in this dialogue is to establish his own doctrine of the unity of the virtues.' I propose in this paper an interpretation of Protagoras 330c-331e that treats the argument it contains (a) as ad hominem, i.e., as testing Protagoras' claims and probing his words, and h…
Ο 'Αγαθός As ΌΔυνατός in the Hippias Minor
This paper is an attempt so to construe the arguments of the Hippias Minor as to remove the justification for regarding it as unworthy of Plato either because of its alleged fallaciousness and Sophistic mode of argument or because of its alleged immorality. It focuses, therefore, only on the arguments and their conclusions, steering clear of the dialogue's dramatic and literary aspects. Whereas I do not wish to deny the importance of these aspect…
The Journal of David Garrick Describing His Visit to France and Italy in 1763
The Sienese Philologists of the Cinquecento —A Bibliographical Introduction
Primarily a student of the Middle Ages, my old friendship with Professor Bullock has driven me to search among old notes and papers in the hope of finding materials for a study connected with the period he had so thoroughly made his own. To write on some topic connected with the CINQUECENTO is only fitting in a publication dedicated to his memory. Hence my choice of what is, perhaps too ambitiously, styled ‘a bibliographical introduction,’ and wh…
The Perils of Personhood
Aristotle's Criticism of Eudoxan Hedonism
Ο 'Αγαθός As ΌΔυνατός in the Hippias Minor
This paper is an attempt so to construe the arguments of the Hippias Minor as to remove the justification for regarding it as unworthy of Plato either because of its alleged fallaciousness and Sophistic mode of argument or because of its alleged immorality. It focuses, therefore, only on the arguments and their conclusions, steering clear of the dialogue's dramatic and literary aspects. Whereas I do not wish to deny the importance of these aspect…
Ignorance, Involuntariness, and Innocence
In a most valuable recent article, on Desire for the Good and the Involuntariness of Wrongdoing: Gorgias 466a-468e,' Kevin McTighe challenges a misguided but widely accepted interpretation of the Socratic paradox 'No one does wrong voluntarily'. According to McTighe, this interpretation has the paradox rely on the blatantly counterintuitive notion that what one desires is distinct from what seems good to one (when that is not in fact good). McTig…
Socrates and Protagoras on Justice and Holiness
PROTAGORAS 330c-331E, WHICH ADDRESSES the relationship between justice and holiness, has been widely discussed and criticized, but uniformly on the assumption that Socrates' intention in this dialogue is to establish his own doctrine of the unity of the virtues.' I propose in this paper an interpretation of Protagoras 330c-331e that treats the argument it contains (a) as ad hominem, i.e., as testing Protagoras' claims and probing his words, and h…
Euthyphro's Failure
Euthyphro's Failure ROSLYN WEISS THE EvTHYPnRO FAXLSto reach a definition of holiness. It considers several possibilities; it appears at one point to be on the verge of discovering the elusive definition,' yet it dissolves ultimately into the familiar aporia. The question is: why? Although the dialogue's failure to define holiness is attributable in large measure to Euthyphro's conceit, to his lack of prior philosophical reflection in an area in …
"Maimonides on "Shilluaḥ Ha-Qen
Hedonism in the Protagoras and the Sophist’s Guarantee
Socrates Dissatisfied
The personified Laws in the Crito who make the case for Socrates' remaining in prison and accepting his execution rather than fleeing at the urging of his friend Crito, speak not, as is generally thought, for Socrates, but represent instead the city of Athens and its laws. The Laws are, indeed, in style and substance, Socrates' adversaries: whereas Socrates defends dialectically the claim of the individual to exercise and follow his own reason, t…
Saadiah on Divine Grace and Human Suffering
Virtue in the cave
The central question of Plato's Meno is "What is virtue?" However, its epistemological and metaphysical concerns - as evidenced by "Meno's paradox" (which asks how inquiry is possible if knowledge is not present at the outset) and by "recollection" (which constitutes Socrates' answer to it) - suggest to scholars that the Meno marks the transition from Plato's early "Socratic" period to his middle, more "Platonic" one. Moreover, the Meno's quasi-m…
Socrates Dissatisfied
Virtue in the Cave
Chapter 1 Introduction: In the Cave Chapter 2 Chapter One. The Struggle over Definition Chapter 3 Chapter Two. Impasse, Paradox, and the Myth of Learning by Recollection Chapter 4 Chapter Three. The Slave-Boy: Learning by Demonstration Chapter 5 Chapter Four. The Road to Larisa: Knowledge, True Opinion, and Eudoxia Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Examined Life Chapter 7 Appendix I: Recollection in the Phaedo Chapter 8 Appendix II: The Abandonment of Mo…
The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic
This Companion provides a comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general. The sixteen essays, by authors who represent various academic disciplines, bring a spectrum of interpretive approaches to bear in order to aid the understanding of a wide-ranging audience, from first-time readers of the Republic who require guidance, to more exp…
Natural Order or Divine Will
In Guide 2.32 Maimonides notes that just as there are three opinions concerning prophecy (as discussed earlier in 2:13), so are there three opinions concerning cosmogony. Scholars have tended to assume that Maimonides, despite what he says, must have seen some more important correspondence between the two sets of opinions than their number. I argue that although for Maimonides what the two sets of opinions have in common is indeed their number, w…
Loving One's Enemies
Arthur Melzer in Philosophy Between the Lines eloquently and illuminatingly describes the various forms of esotericism and their ends. Yet he also contends that it is not until the modern period that philosophers concern themselves with the intellectual and moral advancement of ordinary people. Philosophers of earlier periods, Melzer argues, defend philosophers from their opponents, protect the mass of men from dangerous and destabilizing truths,…
Maimonides on Perfecting Perfection
This article addresses two critical questions concerning Maimonides's views on human perfection at the end of his Guide of the Perplexed . The first is: For those who have reached the highest category of perfection—intellectual perfection, apprehension of the divine, the divine science—what prescription does Maimonides offer for perfecting that perfection, for solidifying the bond between them and God? I will argue: 1) that there is more than one…
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