Susan B Levin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 967201 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan B Levin |
| NOMBRES | Susan B |
| APELLIDO | Levin |
| FIRMA | LEVIN S B |
| AFILIACIONES | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7083-6098 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Less Visible Side of Transhumanism Is Dangerously Un-radical
According to transhumanists who urge the radical enhancement of human beings, humanity’s top priority should be engineering “posthumans,” whose features would include agelessness. Increasingly, transhumanism is critiqued on foundational grounds rather than based largely on anticipated results of its implementation, such as rising social inequality. This expansion is crucial but insufficient because, despite its radical aim, transhumanism reflects…
The irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better
Transhumanists and their fellow travelers urge humanity to prioritize the development of biotechnologies that would eliminate aging, delivering ‘an endless summer of literally perpetual youth.’ Aspiring not to age instantiates what philosopher Martha Nussbaum calls the yearning for ‘external transcendence,’ or the fundamental surpassing of human bounds due to confidence that life without them would be better. Based on Immanuel Kant’s account of t…
Reaffirming the irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better
A world of difference
From the standpoint of disability advocacy, further exploration of the concept of well‐being stands to be availing. The notion that “welfarism” about disability, which Julian Savulescu and Guy Kahane debuted, qualifies as helpful is encouraged by their claim that welfarism shares important commitments with that advocacy. As becomes clear when they apply their welfarist frame to procreative decisions, endorsing welfarism would, in fact, sharply un…
Contributions of Hippocratic medicine and Plato to today’s debate over health, social determinants and the authority of biomedicine
By exploring a competition for authority on health and human nature between Plato and Hippocratic medicine, this paper offers a fresh perspective on an overarching debate today involving health and the role of healthcare in its safeguarding. Economically and politically, healthcare continues to dominate the USA's handling of health, construed biophysically as the absence of disease. Yet, notoriously, in major health outcomes, the USA fares worse …
Plato’s Rivalry with Medicine
Susan B. Levin argues that Plato's engagement with medicine is richer than previously recognised and that he views it as an important rival for authority on nature and flourishing. She further shows that Plato's work, particularly the 'Laws', holds significant promise for bioethics that has so far been nearly untapped.
Plato's Rivalry with Medicine
Susan B. Levin argues that Plato's engagement with medicine is richer than previously recognised and that he views it as an important rival for authority on nature and flourishing. She further shows that Plato's work, particularly the 'Laws', holds significant promise for bioethics that has so far been nearly untapped.
Justice and the Good in Kallipolis
The Republicdevelops Plato’s view of the soul-focused technêthat the Gorgiasidentified as preeminent. On the argument of this chapter, the Republicfurthers Plato’s rivalry with medicine even as it shows that philosophers, whose insight and character are infallible, must supervise all pursuits allowed in Kallipolis. The Republicspells out the implications for medicine of the flaws the Symposiumdiagnosed in its views of nature and flourishing. In t…
Politics and Medicine
Recently the view that Plato moves from optimism to pessimism concerning the best sociopolitical condition has come under attack. The present article concurs that this disjunction is too simplistic and finds emphasis on the regulative status of the Republic’s ideal of unity to be salutary. It diverges, however, on how to interpret it thus construed and the implications of its status as regulative for the Republic’s tie to the Laws where human gov…
Politics and Medicine
This article challenges the widespread assumption that Plato’s valuation of medicine remains steady across the corpus. While Plato’s opposition to poetry and sophistry/rhetoric endures, in the Laws he no longer views medicine as a rival concerning phusis and eudaimonia. Why is this dispute laid to rest, even as the others continue? This article argues that the Laws’ developments with a bearing onmedicine stem ultimately from the philosopher-ruler…
Plato on Women’s Nature
The Ancient Quarrel Between Ph1losophy And Poetry Revisited
In this study, Levin explores Plato's engagement with the Greek literary tradition in his treatment of key linguistic issues. This investigation, conjoined with a new interpretation of the Republic's familiar critique of poets, supports the view that Plato's work represents a valuable precedent for contemporary reflections on ways in which philosophy might benefit from appeals to literature.
ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ ἍΦΘΟΝΟΣ (Plato, Symposium 210d)
Near the climax of the ascent passage of the Symposium , Plato describes how the lover turns to gaze at the great sea of the beautiful and has been variously interpreted by commentators and translators, none has regarded it as particularly significant. In what follows we examine the contribution that the immediate context makes to the meaning of the phrase and take note of the link between the adjective ἄφθονος and two subsequent uses of φθον⋯ω, …
The Art of Plato
Platonic Eponymy and the Literary Tradition
ALTHOUGH COMMENTATORS HAVE RECOGNIZED the important role played by eponymy in the context of Plato's thought, they have not analyzed its historical sources in order to clarify what is distinctive about his approach. Appeals to those who are regularly identified as the sources of Plato's middle-period theory of Forms, notably Socrates, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, do not allow one to situate and explain Platonic eponymy. While they are his precurso…
Politics and Medicine
Recently the view that Plato moves from optimism to pessimism concerning the best sociopolitical condition has come under attack. The present article concurs that this disjunction is too simplistic and finds emphasis on the regulative status of the Republic’s ideal of unity to be salutary. It diverges, however, on how to interpret it thus construed and the implications of its status as regulative for the Republic’s tie to the Laws where human gov…
Platonic Eponymy and the Literary Tradition
ALTHOUGH COMMENTATORS HAVE RECOGNIZED the important role played by eponymy in the context of Plato's thought, they have not analyzed its historical sources in order to clarify what is distinctive about his approach. Appeals to those who are regularly identified as the sources of Plato's middle-period theory of Forms, notably Socrates, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, do not allow one to situate and explain Platonic eponymy. While they are his precurso…
The Art of Plato
ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ ἍΦΘΟΝΟΣ (Plato, Symposium 210d)
Near the climax of the ascent passage of the Symposium , Plato describes how the lover turns to gaze at the great sea of the beautiful and has been variously interpreted by commentators and translators, none has regarded it as particularly significant. In what follows we examine the contribution that the immediate context makes to the meaning of the phrase and take note of the link between the adjective ἄφθονος and two subsequent uses of φθον⋯ω, …
Plato on Women’s Nature
The Ancient Quarrel Between Ph1losophy And Poetry Revisited
In this study, Levin explores Plato's engagement with the Greek literary tradition in his treatment of key linguistic issues. This investigation, conjoined with a new interpretation of the Republic's familiar critique of poets, supports the view that Plato's work represents a valuable precedent for contemporary reflections on ways in which philosophy might benefit from appeals to literature.
Politics and Medicine
Recently the view that Plato moves from optimism to pessimism concerning the best sociopolitical condition has come under attack. The present article concurs that this disjunction is too simplistic and finds emphasis on the regulative status of the Republic’s ideal of unity to be salutary. It diverges, however, on how to interpret it thus construed and the implications of its status as regulative for the Republic’s tie to the Laws where human gov…
Politics and Medicine
This article challenges the widespread assumption that Plato’s valuation of medicine remains steady across the corpus. While Plato’s opposition to poetry and sophistry/rhetoric endures, in the Laws he no longer views medicine as a rival concerning phusis and eudaimonia. Why is this dispute laid to rest, even as the others continue? This article argues that the Laws’ developments with a bearing onmedicine stem ultimately from the philosopher-ruler…
Plato’s Rivalry with Medicine
Susan B. Levin argues that Plato's engagement with medicine is richer than previously recognised and that he views it as an important rival for authority on nature and flourishing. She further shows that Plato's work, particularly the 'Laws', holds significant promise for bioethics that has so far been nearly untapped.
Plato's Rivalry with Medicine
Susan B. Levin argues that Plato's engagement with medicine is richer than previously recognised and that he views it as an important rival for authority on nature and flourishing. She further shows that Plato's work, particularly the 'Laws', holds significant promise for bioethics that has so far been nearly untapped.
Justice and the Good in Kallipolis
The Republicdevelops Plato’s view of the soul-focused technêthat the Gorgiasidentified as preeminent. On the argument of this chapter, the Republicfurthers Plato’s rivalry with medicine even as it shows that philosophers, whose insight and character are infallible, must supervise all pursuits allowed in Kallipolis. The Republicspells out the implications for medicine of the flaws the Symposiumdiagnosed in its views of nature and flourishing. In t…
Contributions of Hippocratic medicine and Plato to today’s debate over health, social determinants and the authority of biomedicine
By exploring a competition for authority on health and human nature between Plato and Hippocratic medicine, this paper offers a fresh perspective on an overarching debate today involving health and the role of healthcare in its safeguarding. Economically and politically, healthcare continues to dominate the USA's handling of health, construed biophysically as the absence of disease. Yet, notoriously, in major health outcomes, the USA fares worse …
A world of difference
From the standpoint of disability advocacy, further exploration of the concept of well‐being stands to be availing. The notion that “welfarism” about disability, which Julian Savulescu and Guy Kahane debuted, qualifies as helpful is encouraged by their claim that welfarism shares important commitments with that advocacy. As becomes clear when they apply their welfarist frame to procreative decisions, endorsing welfarism would, in fact, sharply un…
The Less Visible Side of Transhumanism Is Dangerously Un-radical
According to transhumanists who urge the radical enhancement of human beings, humanity’s top priority should be engineering “posthumans,” whose features would include agelessness. Increasingly, transhumanism is critiqued on foundational grounds rather than based largely on anticipated results of its implementation, such as rising social inequality. This expansion is crucial but insufficient because, despite its radical aim, transhumanism reflects…
The irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better
Transhumanists and their fellow travelers urge humanity to prioritize the development of biotechnologies that would eliminate aging, delivering ‘an endless summer of literally perpetual youth.’ Aspiring not to age instantiates what philosopher Martha Nussbaum calls the yearning for ‘external transcendence,’ or the fundamental surpassing of human bounds due to confidence that life without them would be better. Based on Immanuel Kant’s account of t…
Reaffirming the irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better
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