The Wisdom of the Commons
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Companion to Wisdom Literature
Due to drop in March — featuring of course, Philo of Alexandria. fourth gospelhellenismJewish Identitylogosphilo of alexandriaPlatoseptuagintwisdom literature
Williams on Plato: The Invention of Philosophy
Excerpt from The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy (2007) Plato invented the subject of philosophy as we know it. He lived from 427 to 347 bc, and he is the first philosopher whose works have come down to us complete. He is also the first to have written on the full…
Philo of Alexandria
My copy arrived today. A quick glance at the bibliography, i.e. making sure the work of David Runia is consulted, bodes well. Philo’s creation theology marks an important watershed in Western civilization. Within Judaism he ushers in a more philosophical approach to the creation, which subsequently receives more attention that it had during the Second…
Philo of Alexandria: an intellectual biography
Here’s a recently published book on Philo that I’m looking forward to reading. ChristianityhellenismJudaismlogosMaren Niehoffmetaphysicsphilo of alexandriaPlatoTimaeus
Philo of Alexandria: Where’s David Runia?
It is quite astonishing that this encyclopedia entry makes no mention whatsoever of the doyen of recent Philonic studies — David Runia. This surely cannot qualify as mere oversight: it is akin to an ostensibly reliable overview of recent Hellenistic scholarship without ever citing A. A. Long. Anyway, to get a sense of just how central Runia…
Nagel reviews the posthumous Williams
Reprinted here in case paywall is reinstated. The View from Here and Now Thomas Nagel The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy by Bernard Williams, edited by Myles Burnyeat Princeton, 393 pp, £26.95, March 2006, ISBN 0 691 12477 9 In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political…
The Case for Teaching Ignorance
This in the NYT — H/T to Troy Camplin In a paper from a few years ago I had a section in a chapter in Hayek and Behavioral Economics that deals with this notion, a curtain-raiser to a more detailed examination. Taking Ignorance Seriously As already indicated the other component to thinking about complexity resides…
‘Discipline and Interference’: Ruskin’s Political Economy, Natural Law, and the Moral Disorder of Victorian England
Check out my chum’s freely available article. atonementCarlyleEconomicsethicsevangelicalismGuild of St GeorgeHookermoralitynatural lawPlatoRuskin
‘The Clarke Plato’
‘The Clarke Plato’: the oldest manuscript (discounting papyrus fragments) for about half the dialogues of Plato, perhaps once the first volume of a two-volume set. Commissioned by Arethas of Patrae (bishop of Caesarea, 902-c. 939), who paid 21 gold coins for the copying and the parchment, and added scholia in the margin in a tiny…
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