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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (4): 555–558.
Published: 01 October 2009
...C. Allen Speight Cornell University 2009 Songsuk Susan Hahn. Contradiction in Motion: Hegel's Organic Concept of Life and Value . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. xv + 220 pp. BOOK REVIEWS
Lynne Rudder Baker, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 273–280.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Frances Kamm Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 540 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS
Allan Gibbard, Thinking How to Live.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. ix...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (4): 533–535.
Published: 01 October 2009
...Stephen Kearns Cornell University 2009 Lynne Rudder Baker, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv + 253 pp. BOOK REVIEWS
Lynne Rudder Baker, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 667–670.
Published: 01 October 2013
...C. C. W. Taylor Cooper John M. , Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2012 . xiv+442. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 The project of this impressive work is the exploration...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 390–393.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Richard Kraut Badhwar Neera K. , Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life . New York: Oxford University Press , 2014 . xi + 245 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 The thesis of this book is expressed by its title and subtitle: well-being consists in “happiness...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 251–280.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., to undermine his projects, even at the cost of utter misery. If he succeeds, it may be out of love that I try to change him, to make him repent or turn himself in. What I want for my child is not pleasure but the goods of life, and so the good of moral virtue. According to Jollimore (2011 , 142), if “one's...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... It's refreshing to read something about Spinoza that doesn't fall prey to such temptation. Joseph Almog's recent book on Spinoza, Everything in Its Right Place: Spinoza and Life by the Light of Nature , has none of these flaws of professionalization. He writes not as a professional historian...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 587–591.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Tad M. Schmaltz [email protected] Brown Deborah J. , Normore Calvin G. , Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 x + 255 pp. © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 Descartes offers a view of the material world...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (2): 226–230.
Published: 01 April 2022
... understands Hegel’s Logic to set out, in a quasi-Kantian manner, the categories necessary for “self-conscious life” (248). She takes the Subjective Logic in particular, in which the Concept is examined, to be “Hegel’s own version of a ‘critique of judgment’” that aims to show inner purposiveness and life...
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PHILOSOPHY AND THE GOOD LIFE: REASON AND THE PASSIONS IN GREEK, CARTESIAN AND PSYCHOANALYTIC ETHICS.
The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 441–444.
Published: 01 July 2000
...A. W. Price PHILOSOPHY AND THE GOOD LIFE: REASON AND THE PASSIONS IN GREEK, CARTESIAN AND PSYCHOANALYTIC ETHICS. By John Cottingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 230. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REWEWS as cause. (3) Although our having been created out...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 269–271.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Iakovos Vasiliou Cornell University 2004 A. A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 310. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 2 (April 2004)
Critical Notice of Richard Moran...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 308–310.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Robert Pasnau Dennis Des Chene, Life's Form: Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. viii, 220. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS
Notes
1 Rappe refers in a footnote (102 n. 32...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 433–463.
Published: 01 July 2020
.... Imagine Attacker is trying to kill Victim, and the only way one could save Victim is by killing Attacker. It would seem that, in such a case, killing is necessary. But now suppose there is some other innocent person, suffering some entirely distinct threat, whose life one could save instead. Is killing...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 323–348.
Published: 01 July 2008
... or after. For biological conception is most plausibly seen as a momentous event in the continuing life of a preexisting organism—the egg—rather than a cataclysmic event ending one life and creating another. This article considers and rebuts the most likely challenges to this claim. This metaphysical point...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 241–294.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Yoaav Isaacs; John Hawthorne; Jeffrey Sanford Russell Is the fact that our universe contains fine-tuned life evidence that we live in a multiverse? Ian Hacking and Roger White influentially argue that it is not. We approach this question through a systematic framework for self-locating epistemology...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (2): 151–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Ashley Shaw Experiences of urges, impulses, or inclinations are among the most basic elements in the practical life of conscious agents. This article develops a theory of urges and their epistemology. The article motivates a tripartite framework that distinguishes urges, conscious experiences...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 49–75.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., or some combination
of the two as the highest good of the human life. In book 1, he spec-
ifies that the highest human good is happiness (eudaimonia), and hap-
piness, in turn, is an activity in accordance with virtue of some sort.
Since moral virtue occupies so much of Aristotle’s attention...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 301–305.
Published: 01 April 2023
... contemplation in Aquinas. What sort of act is it, and how does it relate to other acts of intellect? What acts of contemplation are available in this present life, and how do those acts fit into a life of faith or a life devoted to philosophical or theological study? What contribution, if any, does...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 447–449.
Published: 01 July 2002
..., is the attempt to understand more generally the deeper dynamics leading us into symbol-mak- BOOK REVIEWS 448 ing activity. Bayer explains that, according to Cassirer s early notes, symbolic forms emerge from a dialectic between two principals, Life and Spirit. Roughly, this is how the story goes. Life...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 495–499.
Published: 01 July 2020
... in the book’s title suggests, there are others: future bias (preferring that good things be in the future and bad things in the past), structural bias (caring about the overall sequence of events in your life; think of the preference for a life that starts out bad but continually improves over a life...
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