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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 95–97.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Raphael Woolf PLATO AND THE HERO: COURAGE, MANLINESS AND THE IMPERSONAL GOOD. By Angela Hobbs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 280. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111, No. 1 (January...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 293–297.
Published: 01 April 2023
... 305E8-308B9 and Plato’s account of courage and moderation. She suggests understanding courage and moderation in terms of the contemporary distinction between thick and thin concepts. This a subtle idea deserving more exploration. But it raises some concerns. 3 Kamtekar thinks that Plato holds...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 361–364.
Published: 01 July 2022
... than acquiring new motives, tastes, and pleasures. Where does Aristotle say that shame plays the role Jimenez attributes to it? Jimenez finds textual support for this view in Aristotle’s treatment of the varieties of pseudo-courage in Nicomachean Ethics ( EN ) 3.8 and Eudemian Ethics ( EE ) 3.1...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 459–462.
Published: 01 July 2002
... by recourse to that way. Opacity is explained
in the same way as before.
Recanati does not take up the troublesome case of quasi-indicators illus-
trated by ‘she’ in (8), or by the reflexive in
(15) John believes that he himself is courageous.
461...
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The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (1): 65–68.
Published: 01 January 2025
... discussion of the Statesman , of the relation between sōphrosunē and courage. Rather surprisingly, given the book’s thesis that sōphrosunē is “the” virtue of agency, Moore seems content to concede that, at least from the perspective of the Eleatic Visitor (the protagonist of the Statesman...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 462–465.
Published: 01 July 2002
... enrich-
ment over what is conveyed by ‘he is courageous’ or ‘he himself is courageous’
standing alone. However, the enrichment is not captured by Recanati’s for-
mula,
(16) John believes of himself, thought of as ‘he himself’, that he is coura-
geous,
because John does not think...
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The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (1): 69–72.
Published: 01 January 2025
... not integrate the various virtues into a cohesive whole, whereas philosophical virtue does; a person with philosophical courage, for instance, possesses all other virtues as well (103). Second, Gerson addresses Plato’s paradoxical stance that no one commits wrong acts willingly. He argues that Plato presents...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 351–374.
Published: 01 July 2009
... are then
told that the auxiliaries are the ones who do not pass all of these tests. This
is striking because it is precisely the auxiliaries’ ability to preserve their
beliefs “under all conditions”34 about what is to be feared or not that is
repeatedly stressed as their characteristic virtue of courage.35...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 258–260.
Published: 01 April 2015
... animals, but not with the dragon, is merely courageous. By contrast, Dick, who never runs away even when the dragon is present and often takes a step forward to take the brunt of the attack upon himself, has heroic courage. According to Curzer, Dick's standing his ground in front of the dragon...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (2): 219–222.
Published: 01 April 2022
... by the sight of a comrade in danger to make saving him the final and sufficient target of his immediate thought and action. He thereby displays his values—for he is acting in character, and with an implicit concern to be acting well; yet it is our role to ascribe courage to act and agent, not his. 1...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 390–393.
Published: 01 July 2017
... is virtuous. (v) Hence well-being . . . requires virtue. (23) In saying this, Badhwar is not proposing that we radically alter commonsense ideas about which qualities are moral virtues. They are such things as justice, honesty, kindness, courage, and so on. But one striking feature of her attempt to show...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2): 224–228.
Published: 01 April 2019
... says there, is one of four differentia defining the essence of each animal species: cuckoos are partly defined by their cowardice, dolphins by their mildness, and so on. Human beings are likewise partly defined by their natural courage and intelligence. And though human intelligence differs in kind...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 312–316.
Published: 01 April 2023
... that it is a necessary condition for virtue that it characteristically benefits its possessor. One of her reasons is that it is simply not true that every virtue characteristically benefits its possessor. For example, a freedom fighter might be truly courageous without it being the case that their courage...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (4): 571–575.
Published: 01 October 2015
... the qualities attributed to those of book 6: hatred of lies, moderation, courage, and all kinds of virtue (535d–36a). Weiss dismisses this as only a belated attribution (77), as if the attribution were made any less damaging for her thesis by the page of book 7 on which Socrates makes it. Then she claims...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 469–496.
Published: 01 October 2005
...
his account of justice itself.
Gonzalez’s second argument appeals to a distinction that Socrates draws
when he is defining courage in Book IV. His account, Socrates explains, is of
civic (politikê) courage rather than of courage tout court (430c). Since Socrates’
treatment of justice...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 130–140.
Published: 01 January 2018
...: “This is not passivity. This is moral courage far beyond the reach of most of us. It can be argued that it is a misguided form of moral courage; what cannot be argued is that Tom was an ‘Uncle Tom’ eager to please the whites around him. Tom is a moral hero” (224). I think that Wolterstorff misses the point. Making...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 399–404.
Published: 01 July 2017
... in terms of the manifestation of virtuous intellectual character traits such as open-mindedness and intellectual courage. The other conceives of epistemic normativity in terms of competence in getting things right, exemplified in our reliable faculties of perception, memory, and introspection. Thus, we...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 93–117.
Published: 01 January 2013
...,
this is not true of all virtues. Being courageous, for example, does not
require us to direct our attention in specific ways; one must be aware
of the danger, but one can be courageous while attending to anything
(or nothing) at all. In rural Nepal, many people cross dangerous rope
bridges so frequently...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (3): 432–434.
Published: 01 July 2004
... aspects of Berger’s theory, his general
approach constitutes a courageous attempt at presenting a concerted solution
to a variety of important and deep philosophical quandaries.
STEFANO PREDELLI
University of Nottingham...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 519–523.
Published: 01 October 2019
... cannot be demanded from most people, Gandhi recognizes, and violence becomes necessary when we lack the capacity for nonviolence. In such cases, a person who lacks the moral fitness and preparation to deploy nonviolence would be better off committing violence out of courage than avoiding it out of fear...
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