Dominic Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3974798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominic Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominic |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle
"Focusing on Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, this book compares their views on the persuasiveness of moral argument: how far did they think it could reach beyond a narrow circle of believers and influence people more generally? Answering this question requires a wide-ranging approach, which examines their views on such topics as rationality, moral psychology, rhetoric, education, and gender. The first part of the book shows t…
Knowledge, True Belief and Poetry in Republic 10
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Socrates and Plato
The Cave Allegory and the Structure of the Republic
In book VI of the Republic, Socrates describes both the longer and shorter routes as ‘circuits’, meaning that they are journeys that start and end in the same place. In both routes, we start from a set of intuitions and then return to them in the light of the theories we have explored: political/psychological in the case of the shorter route, metaphysical/epistemological in the longer. The chapter links this to the cave allegory, which is also ab…
Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action
Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments, assumptions, imaginaries, and belief systems that drive those preferences and actions. Humanities disciplines, such a…
Plato
Levels of Argument: A Comparative Study of Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Dominic Scott compares the 'Republic' and 'Nicomachean Ethics' from a methodological perspective. He argues that Plato and Aristotle distinguish similar levels of argument in the defence of justice, and that they both follow the same approach: Plato because he thinks it will suffice, Aristotle because he thinks there is no need to go beyond it
Plato
Humanities World Report 2015
Social Policy, Culture and Media Policy, Literature, Cultural Theory
Plato
One Virtue or Many? Aristotle's Politics 1.13 and the Meno
Journal Article ONE VIRTUE OR MANY? ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS 1.13 AND THE MENO Get access DOMINIC SCOTT DOMINIC SCOTT University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 54, Issue Supplement_107, January 2011, Pages 101–122, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2011.tb00014.x Published: 24 March 2015
Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat
"Maieusis pays tribute to the highly influential work of Myles Burnyeat, whose contributions to the study of ancient philosophy have done much to enhance the profile of the subject a round the world. What is distinctive about this work is his is his capacity to deepen our understanding of the relation between ancient and modern thought, and to combine the best of contemporary philosophy - its insights as well as its rigour - with a deep sensitivi…
Plato's Meno
Given its brevity, Plato's Meno covers an astonishingly wide array of topics: politics, education, virtue, definition, philosophical method, mathematics, the nature and acquisition of knowledge and immortality. Its treatment of these, though profound, is tantalisingly short, leaving the reader with many unresolved questions. This book confronts the dialogue's many enigmas and attempts to solve them in a way that is both lucid and sympathetic to P…
Aristotle and Thrasymachus
There has been considerable interest recently in the kind of audience Aristotle is addressing in the Nicomachean Ethics and in the nature of the arguments that he uses. On the basis of some passages, it has been argued that he is not aiming to convert anyone who does not already aspire to the moral life; instead he demands that his audience must have been brought up with beliefs in the value of justice and the other virtues, beliefs to which he c…
Aristotle on Posthumous Fortune
Can a person be harmed or benefited after death, even if there is no afterlife? Bizarre as the idea may sound, there are intuitions in its support. If, for instance, events after a person’s death bring about the demise of some venture to which they devoted all their energies, or if terrible misfortunes afflict their children, we might feel that this detracts from the success of their own life; we might even feel inclined to pity them. Philosophic…
Plato's Critique of the Democratic Character
This paper tackles some issues arising from Plato's account of the democratic man in Rep. VIII. One problem is that Plato tends to analyse him in terms of the desires that he fulfils, yet sends out conflicting signals about exactly what kind of desires are at issue. Scholars are divided over whether all of the democrat's desires are appetites. There is, however, strong evidence against seeing him as exclusively appetitive: rather he is someone wh…
II – Dominic Scott: Primary and Secondary Eudaimonia
In Nicomachean Ethics X 7-8, Aristotle distinguishes two kinds of eudaimonia, primary and secondary. The first corresponds to contemplation, the second to activity in accordance with moral virtue and practical reason. My task in this paper is to elucidate this distinction. Like Charles, I interpret it as one between paradigm and derivative cases; unlike him, I explain it in terms of similarity, not analogy. Furthermore, once the underlying nature…
Recollection and Experience
Recollection and Experience: Plato's Theory of Learning and its Successors
Questions about learning and discovery have fascinated philosophers from Plato onwards. Does the mind bring innate resources of its own to the process of learning or does it rely wholly upon experience? Plato was the first philosopher to give an innatist response to this question and in doing so was to provoke the other major philosophers of ancient Greece to give their own rival explanations of learning. This book examines these theories of lear…
Epicurean Illusions
Illusions play a central part in Epicurean philosophy. One of its fundamental assumptions is that men are the victims of a certain grand illusion and, as long as they remain so, can never aspire to a happy life. This is the illusion that pleasures can be increased in intensity without limit. It is as a result of this that men go to enormous lengths to enlarge their capacity to procure more pleasure, struggling in pursuit of goals that can rarely,…
Platonic Anamnesis Revisited
The belief in innate knowledge has a history almost as long as that of philosophy itself. In our own century it has been propounded in a linguistic context by Chomsky, who sees himself as the heir to a tradition including such philosophers as Descartes, the Cambridge Platonists and Leibniz. But the ancestor of all these is, of course, Plato's theory of recollection or anamnesis. This stands out as unique among all other innatist theses not simply…
Science and Social Guidance
Humanities World Report 2015
Social Policy, Culture and Media Policy, Literature, Cultural Theory
Platonic Anamnesis Revisited
The belief in innate knowledge has a history almost as long as that of philosophy itself. In our own century it has been propounded in a linguistic context by Chomsky, who sees himself as the heir to a tradition including such philosophers as Descartes, the Cambridge Platonists and Leibniz. But the ancestor of all these is, of course, Plato's theory of recollection or anamnesis. This stands out as unique among all other innatist theses not simply…
Plato's Critique of the Democratic Character
This paper tackles some issues arising from Plato's account of the democratic man in Rep. VIII. One problem is that Plato tends to analyse him in terms of the desires that he fulfils, yet sends out conflicting signals about exactly what kind of desires are at issue. Scholars are divided over whether all of the democrat's desires are appetites. There is, however, strong evidence against seeing him as exclusively appetitive: rather he is someone wh…
Science and Social Guidance
Platonic Anamnesis Revisited
The belief in innate knowledge has a history almost as long as that of philosophy itself. In our own century it has been propounded in a linguistic context by Chomsky, who sees himself as the heir to a tradition including such philosophers as Descartes, the Cambridge Platonists and Leibniz. But the ancestor of all these is, of course, Plato's theory of recollection or anamnesis. This stands out as unique among all other innatist theses not simply…
Epicurean Illusions
Illusions play a central part in Epicurean philosophy. One of its fundamental assumptions is that men are the victims of a certain grand illusion and, as long as they remain so, can never aspire to a happy life. This is the illusion that pleasures can be increased in intensity without limit. It is as a result of this that men go to enormous lengths to enlarge their capacity to procure more pleasure, struggling in pursuit of goals that can rarely,…
Recollection and Experience: Plato's Theory of Learning and its Successors
Questions about learning and discovery have fascinated philosophers from Plato onwards. Does the mind bring innate resources of its own to the process of learning or does it rely wholly upon experience? Plato was the first philosopher to give an innatist response to this question and in doing so was to provoke the other major philosophers of ancient Greece to give their own rival explanations of learning. This book examines these theories of lear…
Recollection and Experience
II – Dominic Scott: Primary and Secondary Eudaimonia
In Nicomachean Ethics X 7-8, Aristotle distinguishes two kinds of eudaimonia, primary and secondary. The first corresponds to contemplation, the second to activity in accordance with moral virtue and practical reason. My task in this paper is to elucidate this distinction. Like Charles, I interpret it as one between paradigm and derivative cases; unlike him, I explain it in terms of similarity, not analogy. Furthermore, once the underlying nature…
Aristotle and Thrasymachus
There has been considerable interest recently in the kind of audience Aristotle is addressing in the Nicomachean Ethics and in the nature of the arguments that he uses. On the basis of some passages, it has been argued that he is not aiming to convert anyone who does not already aspire to the moral life; instead he demands that his audience must have been brought up with beliefs in the value of justice and the other virtues, beliefs to which he c…
Aristotle on Posthumous Fortune
Can a person be harmed or benefited after death, even if there is no afterlife? Bizarre as the idea may sound, there are intuitions in its support. If, for instance, events after a person’s death bring about the demise of some venture to which they devoted all their energies, or if terrible misfortunes afflict their children, we might feel that this detracts from the success of their own life; we might even feel inclined to pity them. Philosophic…
Plato's Critique of the Democratic Character
This paper tackles some issues arising from Plato's account of the democratic man in Rep. VIII. One problem is that Plato tends to analyse him in terms of the desires that he fulfils, yet sends out conflicting signals about exactly what kind of desires are at issue. Scholars are divided over whether all of the democrat's desires are appetites. There is, however, strong evidence against seeing him as exclusively appetitive: rather he is someone wh…
Plato's Meno
Given its brevity, Plato's Meno covers an astonishingly wide array of topics: politics, education, virtue, definition, philosophical method, mathematics, the nature and acquisition of knowledge and immortality. Its treatment of these, though profound, is tantalisingly short, leaving the reader with many unresolved questions. This book confronts the dialogue's many enigmas and attempts to solve them in a way that is both lucid and sympathetic to P…
Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat
"Maieusis pays tribute to the highly influential work of Myles Burnyeat, whose contributions to the study of ancient philosophy have done much to enhance the profile of the subject a round the world. What is distinctive about this work is his is his capacity to deepen our understanding of the relation between ancient and modern thought, and to combine the best of contemporary philosophy - its insights as well as its rigour - with a deep sensitivi…
One Virtue or Many? Aristotle's Politics 1.13 and the Meno
Journal Article ONE VIRTUE OR MANY? ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS 1.13 AND THE MENO Get access DOMINIC SCOTT DOMINIC SCOTT University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 54, Issue Supplement_107, January 2011, Pages 101–122, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2011.tb00014.x Published: 24 March 2015
Plato
Plato
Humanities World Report 2015
Social Policy, Culture and Media Policy, Literature, Cultural Theory
The Cave Allegory and the Structure of the Republic
In book VI of the Republic, Socrates describes both the longer and shorter routes as ‘circuits’, meaning that they are journeys that start and end in the same place. In both routes, we start from a set of intuitions and then return to them in the light of the theories we have explored: political/psychological in the case of the shorter route, metaphysical/epistemological in the longer. The chapter links this to the cave allegory, which is also ab…
Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action
Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments, assumptions, imaginaries, and belief systems that drive those preferences and actions. Humanities disciplines, such a…
Plato
Levels of Argument: A Comparative Study of Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Dominic Scott compares the 'Republic' and 'Nicomachean Ethics' from a methodological perspective. He argues that Plato and Aristotle distinguish similar levels of argument in the defence of justice, and that they both follow the same approach: Plato because he thinks it will suffice, Aristotle because he thinks there is no need to go beyond it
Knowledge, True Belief and Poetry in Republic 10
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.
Socrates and Plato
Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle
"Focusing on Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, this book compares their views on the persuasiveness of moral argument: how far did they think it could reach beyond a narrow circle of believers and influence people more generally? Answering this question requires a wide-ranging approach, which examines their views on such topics as rationality, moral psychology, rhetoric, education, and gender. The first part of the book shows t…
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