George Rudebusch

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ID5590139
NAMEGeorge Rudebusch
GIVEN NAMESGeorge
FAMILY NAMERudebusch
SIGNATURERUDEBUSCH G
AFFILIATIONSArizona Christian University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Dividing Plato’s Kinds

    Fernando Muñiz, George RudebuschARTICLEPhronesis2018References: 1

    A dilemma has stymied interpretations of the Stranger’s method of dividing kinds into subkinds in Plato’s Sophist and Statesman . The dilemma assumes that the kinds are either extensions (like sets) or intensions (like Platonic Forms). Now kinds divide like extensions, not intensions. But extensions cannot explain the distinct identities of kinds that possess the very same members. We propose understanding a kind as like an animal body—the Strang…

  • Clitophon's Challenge

    George RudebuschARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2018References: 3

    While anyone's highest priority must be to live well as a human being, Socratic examination aims to make us aware that we lack such expertise, so that our most pressing question becomes how to acquire the knowledge that Socrates has made us desire. Hugh Benson's book proposes to understand the method of hypothesis as Plato's strategy for that acquisition (3). Chapter 1 argues that Plato “owes” us “an account of how such an acquisition is to be ac…

  • Plato’s Anti-hedonism and the Protagoras

    George Rudebusch, Mathesis PublicationsARTICLEAncient Philosophy2015

  • Reconsidering Ren as Virtue and Benevolence

    George RudebuschARTICLEJournal of Chinese Philosophy2013

    One reason why Confucius is preeminent among Chinese philosophers is his teaching about ren . Interpreters have said many different things about ren , yet two basic assumptions are pervasive: that ren is a virtue and that ren is benevolence. I argue that it is more respectful to the text of the Analects to discard both assumptions. Instead of virtue, ren is a priority in one’s motives. Instead of benevolence, ren is humane courtesy.

  • Socrates

    Open AccessGeorge RudebuschBOOKSocrates2009

  • Neutralism In Book I of the Republic

    George RudebuschCHAPTERPursuing the Good2007

    This chapter shows that both the ruler-qua-ruler argument and the rulers-in-our-cities argument refute Thrasymachus' doctrine that the truly wise are egoists. Those arguments establish the thesis of wisdom's neutralism, not altruism. While Tony Chu's argument would establish that, after all, the wise must be egoists, his argument depends upon two false premises, C1 and C2. The falsity of these premises is further support for the thesis of wisdom'…

  • Pursuing the Good

    Terry Penner, Lesley Brown et al.BOOKPursuing the Good2007

  • Plato, Philebus 15B

    Open AccessFernando Muñiz, George RudebuschARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2004Cited by: 1

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  • How Socrates Can Make Both Pleasure and Virtue the Chief Good

    George RudebuschCHAPTERSocrates, Pleasure, and Value2002

    The Socrates of early Platonic dialogs defends both the following claims about human good: (i) Pleasure is the good (in the Protagoras); (ii) Virtue is the good (in the Apology and Crito). I reconcile these claims by showing how Socrates can identify virtuous activity with pleasant activity for a human being. The key is to interpret pleasure as modal, not sensate.

  • Socrates, Pleasure, and Value

    George RudebuschBOOKSocrates, Pleasure, and Value2002

    This book argues that the Socrates of the Apology, Crito, Protagoras, Gorgias, and Republic 1 can consistently and compellingly speak of pleasure and virtue as the good for human beings by identifying pleasant with virtuous activity for a human being (ch. 10). The argument is as follows: Socrates (in the Protagoras and Gorgias) can consistently and compellingly speak of pleasure as the good for human beings (chs. 3–5). Socrates’ hedonism can be i…

  • Plato on Knowing a Tradition

    George RudebuschARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1988

  • Ethics, Practical Reasoning, and Political Philosophy in Antiquity and in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Philosophy

    George RudebuschARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1987

    George Rudebusch, "Ethics, Practical Reasoning, and Political Philosophy in Antiquity and in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Philosophy": A Joint Conference of the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science (SSIPS); The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP); And the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS): A Report, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 429-433

  • Plato on Sense and Reference

    George RudebuschARTICLEMind1985

    Protagoras claimed that man was the measure of all things; Heracleitus, that all was in flux. Plato makes the positions of these two men the object, in much of his writing, of what could be called a 'search and destroy' mission. With an eye to this combat, we might call the Theaetetus the climax of Plato's career. The Theaetetus tries to answer the question, What is knowledge? Plato considers the empiricist answer that knowledge is perception, bu…