Patrick Coby
Biographic Data
| ID | 1014079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Coby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Coby |
| SIGNATURE | COBY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Enlightened Self-Interest in the Peloponnesian War: Thucydidean Speakers on the Right of the Stronger and Inter-State Peace
The speakers in Thucydides who give voice to the sophistic thesis that might is right do not generally think that what they are releasing upon the world is a war of all against all. On the contrary, they are hopeful, like the modern utilitarians they anticipate, that their realistic assessment of human motives can serve as the foundation of an inter-state order based not on justice but on clear and certain power relations. The most perceptive of …
Aristotle's Three Cities and the Problem of Faction
Aristotle describes the polis as a self-sufficient compound. Its regime, he says, is responsible for shaping the whole character of the city's people. But rarely is the city unified in its parts, and the formative power of the regime is not always this extensive. There are in fact three kinds of cities depicted in the Politics. They differ by the degree of partnership tying city members together. Accordingly, the problem of faction and its cure d…
The Law of Nature in Locke's Second Treatise: Is Locke a Hobbesian
The question addressed by this essay is whether Thomas Hobbes is the true intellectual forebear of John Locke. A brief comparison of the teachings of these two authors with respect to natural justice and civil justice would seem to suggest that Locke is a determined adversary of Hobbes whose views on justice are reducible to the maxim that “might makes right.” But a reexamination of Locke's Second Treatise shows that Locke adopts this principle w…
Aristotle's Four Conceptions of Politics
There is an ambiguity in Aristotle's Politics concerning the character of a good regime. This ambiguity has its roots in conflicting conceptions of politics entertained simultaneously by Aristotle. Sometimes Aristotle treats politics as a service rendered by art, and sometimes still as an attempt at self-protection through the rule of law. But the primary conceptions of politics are as an instrument of education, on the one hand, and as a reward …
Rousseau's Social Contract: The Design of the Argument. Hilail Gildin
Education and Culture in the Political thought of Aristotle. Carnes Lord
The End of the Ancient Republic: Essays on "Julius Caesar." . Jan Blits
On Warriors & Artisans: "The Case for Moral Virtue in Plato's "Republic
It is not altogether clear whether, and to what extent, Plato's defense of justice in the Republic applies to persons other than philosophers-persons, let us say, such as warriors and artisans. Professor Coby approaches this question by way of considering the benefits that would result to warriors and artisans were they to submit to the rule of philosopher kings
Politics and the Poetic Ideal in Shakespeare's the Tempest
FT ER SOCRATES DELCARES POETS BANISHED from his regime in the tenth book of the Republic, he refers to an ancient quarrel between philosophy and over the matter of final authority in the political domain (607b). Socrates attacks poetry on grounds that its imitation is twice removed from the truth; that it undermines moral virtue, making men fearful, rapacious, and imprudent; and that it hinders philosophy by breeding attachment to the things of t…
The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy
The Law of Nature in Locke's Second Treatise: Is Locke a Hobbesian
The question addressed by this essay is whether Thomas Hobbes is the true intellectual forebear of John Locke. A brief comparison of the teachings of these two authors with respect to natural justice and civil justice would seem to suggest that Locke is a determined adversary of Hobbes whose views on justice are reducible to the maxim that “might makes right.” But a reexamination of Locke's Second Treatise shows that Locke adopts this principle w…
Aristotle's Three Cities and the Problem of Faction
Aristotle describes the polis as a self-sufficient compound. Its regime, he says, is responsible for shaping the whole character of the city's people. But rarely is the city unified in its parts, and the formative power of the regime is not always this extensive. There are in fact three kinds of cities depicted in the Politics. They differ by the degree of partnership tying city members together. Accordingly, the problem of faction and its cure d…
Aristotle's Four Conceptions of Politics
There is an ambiguity in Aristotle's Politics concerning the character of a good regime. This ambiguity has its roots in conflicting conceptions of politics entertained simultaneously by Aristotle. Sometimes Aristotle treats politics as a service rendered by art, and sometimes still as an attempt at self-protection through the rule of law. But the primary conceptions of politics are as an instrument of education, on the one hand, and as a reward …
Enlightened Self-Interest in the Peloponnesian War: Thucydidean Speakers on the Right of the Stronger and Inter-State Peace
The speakers in Thucydides who give voice to the sophistic thesis that might is right do not generally think that what they are releasing upon the world is a war of all against all. On the contrary, they are hopeful, like the modern utilitarians they anticipate, that their realistic assessment of human motives can serve as the foundation of an inter-state order based not on justice but on clear and certain power relations. The most perceptive of …
Politics and the Poetic Ideal in Shakespeare's the Tempest
FT ER SOCRATES DELCARES POETS BANISHED from his regime in the tenth book of the Republic, he refers to an ancient quarrel between philosophy and over the matter of final authority in the political domain (607b). Socrates attacks poetry on grounds that its imitation is twice removed from the truth; that it undermines moral virtue, making men fearful, rapacious, and imprudent; and that it hinders philosophy by breeding attachment to the things of t…
The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy
On Warriors & Artisans: "The Case for Moral Virtue in Plato's "Republic
It is not altogether clear whether, and to what extent, Plato's defense of justice in the Republic applies to persons other than philosophers-persons, let us say, such as warriors and artisans. Professor Coby approaches this question by way of considering the benefits that would result to warriors and artisans were they to submit to the rule of philosopher kings
Politics and the Poetic Ideal in Shakespeare's the Tempest
FT ER SOCRATES DELCARES POETS BANISHED from his regime in the tenth book of the Republic, he refers to an ancient quarrel between philosophy and over the matter of final authority in the political domain (607b). Socrates attacks poetry on grounds that its imitation is twice removed from the truth; that it undermines moral virtue, making men fearful, rapacious, and imprudent; and that it hinders philosophy by breeding attachment to the things of t…
The End of the Ancient Republic: Essays on "Julius Caesar." . Jan Blits
Rousseau's Social Contract: The Design of the Argument. Hilail Gildin
Education and Culture in the Political thought of Aristotle. Carnes Lord
Aristotle's Four Conceptions of Politics
There is an ambiguity in Aristotle's Politics concerning the character of a good regime. This ambiguity has its roots in conflicting conceptions of politics entertained simultaneously by Aristotle. Sometimes Aristotle treats politics as a service rendered by art, and sometimes still as an attempt at self-protection through the rule of law. But the primary conceptions of politics are as an instrument of education, on the one hand, and as a reward …
The Law of Nature in Locke's Second Treatise: Is Locke a Hobbesian
The question addressed by this essay is whether Thomas Hobbes is the true intellectual forebear of John Locke. A brief comparison of the teachings of these two authors with respect to natural justice and civil justice would seem to suggest that Locke is a determined adversary of Hobbes whose views on justice are reducible to the maxim that “might makes right.” But a reexamination of Locke's Second Treatise shows that Locke adopts this principle w…
Aristotle's Three Cities and the Problem of Faction
Aristotle describes the polis as a self-sufficient compound. Its regime, he says, is responsible for shaping the whole character of the city's people. But rarely is the city unified in its parts, and the formative power of the regime is not always this extensive. There are in fact three kinds of cities depicted in the Politics. They differ by the degree of partnership tying city members together. Accordingly, the problem of faction and its cure d…
Enlightened Self-Interest in the Peloponnesian War: Thucydidean Speakers on the Right of the Stronger and Inter-State Peace
The speakers in Thucydides who give voice to the sophistic thesis that might is right do not generally think that what they are releasing upon the world is a war of all against all. On the contrary, they are hopeful, like the modern utilitarians they anticipate, that their realistic assessment of human motives can serve as the foundation of an inter-state order based not on justice but on clear and certain power relations. The most perceptive of …
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