Rachana Kamtekar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1016241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachana Kamtekar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachana |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamtekar |
| SIGNATURE | KAMTEKAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7829-8167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Problems of Legislation in Plato’s Laws Book III
This article argues that Plato uses law to resolve evaluative disagreement between the diverse members of a political community. Drawing on the Statesman and Laws to characterize the sources and political consequences of evaluative disagreement, it focuses on how the legislative process is supposed to overcome disagreements and establish a common law
Stoic Emotion: The Why and the How of Eliminating All Emotions
This chapter discusses the Stoic injunction to eradicate, rather than moderate, emotions. Pursuing the question of why the Stoics maintain such an apparently extreme position, the chapter first investigates the Stoic claim that all emotions involve judgments of value that are contrary to reason. It then considers the attitude with which the Stoics say we should replace emotions in order to make moral progress, namely “impulse with reservation.” T…
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume LXIV
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the Middle Ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the f…
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the Middle Ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the f…
Two Concepts of Cause in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy
Using a framework from recent metaphysics and philosophy of science, according to which we have two concepts of cause, producer and necessary condition, we investigate causal notions in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy, which concerns the unintentional homicide of a boy by a javelin-throwing youth. The prosecution maintains that the youth, having produced the boy’s death, is legally responsible; the defense argues, first, that the youth is patient, no…
Weaving together Natural Courage and Moderation: 305E8-308b9
Chapter 11 discusses Statesman 305e8-308b9, where the Visitor identifies, as a source of civic conflict, disagreements about whether a course of action or a person is courageous or rash, moderate or cowardly, disagreements he analyses as conducted using thick ethical terms. He claims that these disagreements are rooted in natural temperamental differences among human beings (some are naturally courageous and others naturally moderate) and are to …
“False positive” emotions, responsibility, and moral character
Plato’s Moral Psychology (PMP) distinguishes two theses that might be taken as foundational to Plato’s psychologizing
Replies to Lear, Meyer and Vasiliou
Platonic Pity, or Why Compassion Is Not a Platonic Virtue
From Socrates’ claim in the Apology that a good person cannot be harmed to Plato’s characterizations of virtue as godlikeness in later dialogues like the Theaetetus and Timaeus, Platonic virtue seems to be an ideal of invulnerability. One might conclude that Plato would not count as virtues some of the qualities of character that we count as virtues, such as a compassionate disposition or disposition to pity, insofar as such qualities require the…
Aristotle contra Plato on the Voluntariness of Vice: The Arguments of Nicomachean Ethics 3.5
Aristotle’s arguments in NE 3.5 target Plato’s position that vice is not blameworthy but to be pitied because involuntary, i.e. contrary to our wish for our good—not the ‘Socratic paradox’ that wrongdoing is involuntary. To this end, Aristotle develops a causal account of voluntary action based on Plato, Laws 9, but replaces Plato’s character-based classification of actions with his own distinction between performing actions of a certain type and…
Plato's Moral Psychology: Intellectualism, the Divided Soul, and the Desire for Good
Plato’s Moral Psychology is concerned with Plato’s account of the soul insofar as it bears on our living well or badly, virtuously or viciously. The core of Plato’s moral psychology is his account of human motivation, and PMP argues that throughout the dialogues Plato maintains that human beings have a natural desire for our own good, and that actions and conditions contrary to this desire are involuntary (from which follows the ‘Socratic paradox…
Studying Ancient Political Thought Through Ancient Philosophers: The Case of Aristotle and Natural Slavery
This paper examines Aristotle’s view that there are natural slaves, able-bodied people who lack the capacity to deliberate about the good and bad in life, who are ideally suited to be ‘tools of action’ for practically intelligent masters. After reconstructing Aristotle’s reasoning for the view that there are natural slaves in Politics i, and proposing a philosophical motivation for his interest in natural slavery, the paper reflects on what this …
The Relationship between Aristotle’s Ethical and Political Discourses ( NE x 9)
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The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This Cambridge Companion includes twenty essays by leading scholars of Aristotle and ancient philosophy that cover the major issues of this text. The essays in this volume shed light on Aristotle's ri…
Virtue And Happiness Essays In Honour Of Julia Annas
Psychology and the inculcation of virtue in Plato's Laws
Although Aristotle says that Plato's educational recommendations in the Laws are pretty much the same as in the Republic (Politics II.6.1265a6–8), one striking difference in the Laws is its emphasis on a lifelong regime of gymnastics or prescribed physical movement: the Athenian says that pregnant mothers are to take exercise so that the fetus they are carrying is moved about (789a–93e); from the age of three to six, children must play at wrestli…
Ethics and politics in Socrates' defense of justice
In the Republic, Socrates argues that justice ought to be valued both for its own sake and for the sake of its consequences. Scholars divide over the importance of politics in the Republic. This chapter argues that the account of the ideal city in Socrates' defense of justice plays the role of connecting justice as a structural condition of the soul and just behavior. It raises a worry that the defense is question-begging and show why it is not. …
Plato on Education and Art
The article resonates Plato's ideas on education and art. In the Apology, Socrates describes his life's mission of practicing philosophy as aimed at getting the Athenians to care for virtue; in the Gorgias, Plato claims that happiness depends entirely on education and justice; in the Protagoras and the Meno, he puzzles about whether virtue is teachable or how else it might be acquired; in the Phaedrus, he explains that teaching and persuading req…
Knowing by Likeness in Empedocles
Contrary to the Aristotelian interpretation of Empedocles' views about cognition, according to which all cognition, like perception, is due to the compositional likeness between subject and object of cognition, this paper argues that when Empedocles says that we know one thing 'by' another (e.g. earth by earth or love by love), he is characterizing analogical reasoning, an intellectual activity quite different from perception (which is explained …
The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle
Book Review| January 01 2009 The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle Hendrik Lorenz, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. 229 pp. Rachana Kamtekar Rachana Kamtekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 103–107. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Cita…
Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic
Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics
Book Review| October 01 2007 Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics James warren, Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics. Oxford: Clarendon, 2004. viii + 240 pp. Rachana Kamtekar Rachana Kamtekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 650–653. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2007-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rachana Kamtekar; Facing Death…
Speaking With The Same Voice As Reason: Personification In Plato’ S Psychology
Contemporary readers of Greek ethics tend to favour those accounts of the virtuous ideal according to which virtue involves the development of our non-rational—appetitive and emotional— motivations as well as of our rational motivations. So our contemporaries find much of interest and sympathy in Aristotle’s conception of virtue as a condition in which reason does not simply override our appetites and emotions, but these non-rational motivations …
A companion to Socrates
"Written by an outstanding international team of scholars, this Companion explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy. Discusses the life of Socrates and key philosophical doctrines associated with him Covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient world to contemporary European philosophy Examines Socrates' place in the larger philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Empire, t…
Studying Ancient Political Thought Through Ancient Philosophers: The Case of Aristotle and Natural Slavery
This paper examines Aristotle’s view that there are natural slaves, able-bodied people who lack the capacity to deliberate about the good and bad in life, who are ideally suited to be ‘tools of action’ for practically intelligent masters. After reconstructing Aristotle’s reasoning for the view that there are natural slaves in Politics i, and proposing a philosophical motivation for his interest in natural slavery, the paper reflects on what this …
ΑΙΔΩΣ in Epictetus
Imperfect Virtue
Sex and Social Justice; Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach
Book Review| April 01 2002 Sex and Social Justice; Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach Martha Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix, 476.Martha Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxi, 312. Rachana Kamtekar Rachana Kamtekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111…
Sex and Social Justice
Situationism and Virtue Ethics on the Content of Our Character
What’s the good of agreeing? Homonoia in platonic politics
ALL the citizens in the ideal city of Plato’s Republic, the rulers as well as the ruled, agree that their city’s rulers, the philosophers, should rule. This agreement is a feature of the city’s moderation: the city’s moderation is not only a condition in which ‘the desires of the base majority are ruled by the desires and wisdom of the superior minority’ (431 c 9-D 2) but also one in which the ruled, rather than being simply dominated by the rule…
A Companion to Socrates
A Companion to Socrates
A Companion to Socrates
A Companion to Socrates
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Speaking With The Same Voice As Reason: Personification In Plato’ S Psychology
Contemporary readers of Greek ethics tend to favour those accounts of the virtuous ideal according to which virtue involves the development of our non-rational—appetitive and emotional— motivations as well as of our rational motivations. So our contemporaries find much of interest and sympathy in Aristotle’s conception of virtue as a condition in which reason does not simply override our appetites and emotions, but these non-rational motivations …
A companion to Socrates
"Written by an outstanding international team of scholars, this Companion explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy. Discusses the life of Socrates and key philosophical doctrines associated with him Covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient world to contemporary European philosophy Examines Socrates' place in the larger philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Empire, t…
Plato on the Attribution of Conative Attitudes
Plato's Socrates famously claims that we want (βούλɛσθαı) rather than what we think good ( Gorgias 468bd); he also claims that we desire (ἐπıθυμɛĩν) things that we think are good, which are sometimes in fact bad ( Meno 77de). Drawing on similarities between Plato's treatment of conative and cognitive attitudes, this paper shows how Plato's various accounts of the relationship between our conative attitudes and the good account for the norm-respon…
Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic
Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics
Book Review| October 01 2007 Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics James warren, Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics. Oxford: Clarendon, 2004. viii + 240 pp. Rachana Kamtekar Rachana Kamtekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 650–653. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2007-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rachana Kamtekar; Facing Death…
Plato on Education and Art
The article resonates Plato's ideas on education and art. In the Apology, Socrates describes his life's mission of practicing philosophy as aimed at getting the Athenians to care for virtue; in the Gorgias, Plato claims that happiness depends entirely on education and justice; in the Protagoras and the Meno, he puzzles about whether virtue is teachable or how else it might be acquired; in the Phaedrus, he explains that teaching and persuading req…
Knowing by Likeness in Empedocles
Contrary to the Aristotelian interpretation of Empedocles' views about cognition, according to which all cognition, like perception, is due to the compositional likeness between subject and object of cognition, this paper argues that when Empedocles says that we know one thing 'by' another (e.g. earth by earth or love by love), he is characterizing analogical reasoning, an intellectual activity quite different from perception (which is explained …
The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle
Book Review| January 01 2009 The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle Hendrik Lorenz, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. 229 pp. Rachana Kamtekar Rachana Kamtekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 103–107. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Cita…
Psychology and the inculcation of virtue in Plato's Laws
Although Aristotle says that Plato's educational recommendations in the Laws are pretty much the same as in the Republic (Politics II.6.1265a6–8), one striking difference in the Laws is its emphasis on a lifelong regime of gymnastics or prescribed physical movement: the Athenian says that pregnant mothers are to take exercise so that the fetus they are carrying is moved about (789a–93e); from the age of three to six, children must play at wrestli…
Ethics and politics in Socrates' defense of justice
In the Republic, Socrates argues that justice ought to be valued both for its own sake and for the sake of its consequences. Scholars divide over the importance of politics in the Republic. This chapter argues that the account of the ideal city in Socrates' defense of justice plays the role of connecting justice as a structural condition of the soul and just behavior. It raises a worry that the defense is question-begging and show why it is not. …
Virtue And Happiness Essays In Honour Of Julia Annas
The Relationship between Aristotle’s Ethical and Political Discourses ( NE x 9)
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This Cambridge Companion includes twenty essays by leading scholars of Aristotle and ancient philosophy that cover the major issues of this text. The essays in this volume shed light on Aristotle's ri…
Studying Ancient Political Thought Through Ancient Philosophers: The Case of Aristotle and Natural Slavery
This paper examines Aristotle’s view that there are natural slaves, able-bodied people who lack the capacity to deliberate about the good and bad in life, who are ideally suited to be ‘tools of action’ for practically intelligent masters. After reconstructing Aristotle’s reasoning for the view that there are natural slaves in Politics i, and proposing a philosophical motivation for his interest in natural slavery, the paper reflects on what this …
Plato's Moral Psychology: Intellectualism, the Divided Soul, and the Desire for Good
Plato’s Moral Psychology is concerned with Plato’s account of the soul insofar as it bears on our living well or badly, virtuously or viciously. The core of Plato’s moral psychology is his account of human motivation, and PMP argues that throughout the dialogues Plato maintains that human beings have a natural desire for our own good, and that actions and conditions contrary to this desire are involuntary (from which follows the ‘Socratic paradox…
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