Susan Sauve Meyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 987972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Sauve Meyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan Sauve |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3330-2270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Identifying the Preludes in Plato’s Laws
The Athenian in Plato’s Laws famously proposes that laws should have persuasive preludes and he offers many examples of such preludes over the course of the dialogue. I consider the relation between these preludes and the wide-ranging meta-legislative discourse that occupies much of the dialogue. It is widely believed that those meta-legislative discussions count as legislative preludes too, even though the Athenian does not explicitly identify t…
Fate, Cause, and Action in Stoicism
The Stoic doctrine of fate (heimarmenē) is significantly different from modern forms of determinism, and the objections its critics raised about human agency are correspondingly different from the challenges faced by compatibilists today. Stoic fate is not a deterministic sequence of events, but a complex system of mutual influence in which the bodies that constitute the cosmos have effects on each other. No cause is exempt from such external inf…
Platonic Autonomy: Self-Determination, Unity, and Cooperation
Aspiration and Internalism
Involuntary Wrongdoing and Responsibility in Plato
Plato's Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion
Civic Freedom in Plato’s Laws
In Book 3 of Plato’s Laws, we read that a legislator must aim to endow the polis with a trio of properties: freedom, wisdom, and internal friendship (philia). This paper explores what such freedom consists in, with a focus on the so-called doctrine of the mixed constitution. It argues that such freedom is a constitutional matter; that it is not to be identified with ‘voluntary servitude to the laws’ cultivated by persuasive preludes to the laws; …
Plato’s Laws
This chapter presents a an overview of the themes and topics of Plato’s Laws and then focusses on the grand hierarchy of divine and human goods identified in book I (631b-d) as the reference point of all proper legislation. The hierarchy rests on a conception of virtue distinct from what we find in other Platonic dialogues. It ranks courage last among the virtues and describes justice as a blend of moderation with wisdom and courage. This chapter…
Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge
Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin, in ancient philosophy but also in later periods and in systematic philosophy. The contributors discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond. The editors offer an introduction charting the scholarly contributions of Fine and Irwin and assessing th…
Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge: Themes from the Work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin
Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin in the history of philosophy. They discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond
Aristotle on Moral Motivation
An action’s motivation can be construed either as its efficient cause (a psychological state that moves one to act) or as the reason or goal (telos) for which one acts. In Aristotle’s view, motive in neither sense makes a difference to the rightness or wrongness of actions. However, having the appropriate motive in both senses is essential to virtuous agency. Virtuous agents, who decide on virtuous actions “for their own sake,” choose them becaus…
Clarendon Plato Series: Plato: Laws 1 and 2
Aristotle's Ethics and Moral Responsibility
Does Aristotle have a conception of moral responsibility? A prominent feature of his treatment of the virtues of character, in both ethical treatises, is an extended account of voluntariness. He announces the topic by noting that praise and blame are directed at what is voluntary, and that voluntary agents are the cause (aitios) or origin (archê) of their actions (EE 1222b15–29; EN 1109b30–35). Clearly he is interested in voluntariness as a causa…
Plato: Laws 1 And 2
Chain of Causes: What is Stoic Fate?
As the chain of causes present throughout the cosmos, fate is the instrument by which the Stoic god exerts its providential activity. In fact, the Stoic god is often identified with fate understood as the chain of causes. This chapter focuses on how this chain of causes is to be understood. The metaphor of a chain of causes is often used nowadays by causal theorists. But it is argued that the Stoic usage of this metaphor differs greatly from the …
Aristotle on the Voluntary
Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy
Book Review| July 01 2003 Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy Suzanne Bobzien, Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 441. Susan Sauvé Meyer Susan Sauvé Meyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 405–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-3-405 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ma…
The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements
Ethics
This fourth Companion to Ancient Thought is devoted to ancient ethics. The chapters range over the ethical theories of all the major philosophers and schools from the earliest times to the work of the Hellenistic philosophers. There is a substantial introduction which considers the question of what is distinctive about ancient ethics, and an extensive bibliography. This collection provides a sophisticated and accessible introduction to the moral …
Aristotle: Metaphysics Books Zeta and Eta
Aristotle on Moral Responsibility: Character and Cause
This book presents an examination of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. It makes the case that these constitute a theory of moral responsibility — albeit one with important differences from modern theories. Highlights of the discussion include a reconstruction of the dialectical argument in the Eudemian Ethics II 6-9, and a demonstration that the definitions of ‘voluntary’ and ‘involuntary’ in Nicomachea…
Aristotle on Moral Responsibility
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Aristotle on Moral Responsibility. By Susan Sauve Meyer. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993. Pp. xii + 210. Price £40.00.) Gailann Rickert Gailann Rickert Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 181, October 1995, Pages 511–515, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220317 Published: 01 October 1995
Aristotle, Teleology, and Reduction
"Black" Rage and White Women: Ideological Self-Formation in Charlotte Bronte's African Tales
Critics of Charlotte Bronte's juvenilia have noticed the passionate interest in contemporary politics reflected in her early writings: her fascination with the Duke of Wellington, the characters named after other contemporary figures, the allusions to current affairs, such as Catholic Emancipation, and the important formative influence of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Yet the way in which the Bronte children's early tales are most fundamentally…
"Black" Rage and White Women: Ideological Self-Formation in Charlotte Bronte's African Tales
Critics of Charlotte Bronte's juvenilia have noticed the passionate interest in contemporary politics reflected in her early writings: her fascination with the Duke of Wellington, the characters named after other contemporary figures, the allusions to current affairs, such as Catholic Emancipation, and the important formative influence of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Yet the way in which the Bronte children's early tales are most fundamentally…
Aristotle, Teleology, and Reduction
Aristotle: Metaphysics Books Zeta and Eta
Aristotle on Moral Responsibility: Character and Cause
This book presents an examination of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. It makes the case that these constitute a theory of moral responsibility — albeit one with important differences from modern theories. Highlights of the discussion include a reconstruction of the dialectical argument in the Eudemian Ethics II 6-9, and a demonstration that the definitions of ‘voluntary’ and ‘involuntary’ in Nicomachea…
Aristotle on Moral Responsibility
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Aristotle on Moral Responsibility. By Susan Sauve Meyer. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993. Pp. xii + 210. Price £40.00.) Gailann Rickert Gailann Rickert Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 181, October 1995, Pages 511–515, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220317 Published: 01 October 1995
Ethics
This fourth Companion to Ancient Thought is devoted to ancient ethics. The chapters range over the ethical theories of all the major philosophers and schools from the earliest times to the work of the Hellenistic philosophers. There is a substantial introduction which considers the question of what is distinctive about ancient ethics, and an extensive bibliography. This collection provides a sophisticated and accessible introduction to the moral …
The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements
Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy
Book Review| July 01 2003 Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy Suzanne Bobzien, Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 441. Susan Sauvé Meyer Susan Sauvé Meyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 405–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-3-405 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ma…
Aristotle on the Voluntary
Chain of Causes: What is Stoic Fate?
As the chain of causes present throughout the cosmos, fate is the instrument by which the Stoic god exerts its providential activity. In fact, the Stoic god is often identified with fate understood as the chain of causes. This chapter focuses on how this chain of causes is to be understood. The metaphor of a chain of causes is often used nowadays by causal theorists. But it is argued that the Stoic usage of this metaphor differs greatly from the …
Clarendon Plato Series: Plato: Laws 1 and 2
Aristotle's Ethics and Moral Responsibility
Does Aristotle have a conception of moral responsibility? A prominent feature of his treatment of the virtues of character, in both ethical treatises, is an extended account of voluntariness. He announces the topic by noting that praise and blame are directed at what is voluntary, and that voluntary agents are the cause (aitios) or origin (archê) of their actions (EE 1222b15–29; EN 1109b30–35). Clearly he is interested in voluntariness as a causa…
Plato: Laws 1 And 2
Aristotle on Moral Motivation
An action’s motivation can be construed either as its efficient cause (a psychological state that moves one to act) or as the reason or goal (telos) for which one acts. In Aristotle’s view, motive in neither sense makes a difference to the rightness or wrongness of actions. However, having the appropriate motive in both senses is essential to virtuous agency. Virtuous agents, who decide on virtuous actions “for their own sake,” choose them becaus…
Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge
Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin, in ancient philosophy but also in later periods and in systematic philosophy. The contributors discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond. The editors offer an introduction charting the scholarly contributions of Fine and Irwin and assessing th…
Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge: Themes from the Work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin
Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin in the history of philosophy. They discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond
Plato’s Laws
This chapter presents a an overview of the themes and topics of Plato’s Laws and then focusses on the grand hierarchy of divine and human goods identified in book I (631b-d) as the reference point of all proper legislation. The hierarchy rests on a conception of virtue distinct from what we find in other Platonic dialogues. It ranks courage last among the virtues and describes justice as a blend of moderation with wisdom and courage. This chapter…
Aspiration and Internalism
Involuntary Wrongdoing and Responsibility in Plato
Plato's Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion
Civic Freedom in Plato’s Laws
In Book 3 of Plato’s Laws, we read that a legislator must aim to endow the polis with a trio of properties: freedom, wisdom, and internal friendship (philia). This paper explores what such freedom consists in, with a focus on the so-called doctrine of the mixed constitution. It argues that such freedom is a constitutional matter; that it is not to be identified with ‘voluntary servitude to the laws’ cultivated by persuasive preludes to the laws; …
Fate, Cause, and Action in Stoicism
The Stoic doctrine of fate (heimarmenē) is significantly different from modern forms of determinism, and the objections its critics raised about human agency are correspondingly different from the challenges faced by compatibilists today. Stoic fate is not a deterministic sequence of events, but a complex system of mutual influence in which the bodies that constitute the cosmos have effects on each other. No cause is exempt from such external inf…
Platonic Autonomy: Self-Determination, Unity, and Cooperation
Identifying the Preludes in Plato’s Laws
The Athenian in Plato’s Laws famously proposes that laws should have persuasive preludes and he offers many examples of such preludes over the course of the dialogue. I consider the relation between these preludes and the wide-ranging meta-legislative discourse that occupies much of the dialogue. It is widely believed that those meta-legislative discussions count as legislative preludes too, even though the Athenian does not explicitly identify t…
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