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    The Structure of Enquiry in Plato's Early Dialogues.Vasilis Politis - 2015 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
    This book proposes and defends a radically new account of Plato's method of argument and enquiry in his early dialogues. Vasilis Politis challenges the traditional account according to which these dialogues are basically about the demand for definitions, and questions the equally traditional view that what lies behind Plato's method of argument is a peculiar theory of knowledge. He argues that these dialogues are enquiries set in motion by dilemmas and aporiai, incorporating both a sceptical and an anti-sceptical dimension, and (...)
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    Routledge philosophy guidebook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics.Vasilis Politis - 2004 - New York: Routledge.
    Aristotle is perhaps the most important figure in philosophy. Every serious reader of philosophy will come across the Metaphysics , yet until now there has not been an introductory book to help explain the often difficult ideas that arise in the text. This GuideBook looks at the Metaphysics thematically and takes the reader through the main arguments found in the book. The book introduces and assesses Aristotle's life and the background to the Metaphysics, the ideas and text of the Metaphysics (...)
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  3. Aristotle and the Metaphysics.Vasilis Politis - 2004 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 67 (3):603-603.
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    The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy.George Karamanolis & Vasilis Politis (eds.) - 2017 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Ancient philosophers from an otherwise diverse range of traditions were connected by their shared use of aporia - translated as puzzlement rooted in conflicts of reasons - as a core tool in philosophical enquiry. The essays in this volume provide the first comprehensive study of aporetic methodology among numerous major figures and influential schools, including the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Academic sceptics, Pyrrhonian sceptics, Plotinus and Damascius. They explore the differences and similarities in these philosophers' approaches to (...)
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    Plato’s Geach Talks to Socrates: Definition by Example-and-Exemplar in the Hippias Major.Vasilis Politis - 2018 - Phronesis 63 (3):223-228.
    _ Source: _Volume 63, Issue 3, pp 223 - 228 The paper argues that Plato, in the _Hippias Major_ gives due consideration to the question whether, for some qualities F, such as beauty, it is possible to give an account of what F is by pointing to an example-and-exemplar. He takes seriously, and gives cogent reasons in defense of, an affirmative answer to this question in a manner comparable to Geach—although he argues that these reasons lead to inconsistency, if combined (...)
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  6. Aporia and searching in early Plato.Vasilis Politis - 2005 - In Lindsay Judson & Vassilis Karasmanis (eds.), Remembering Socrates: philosophical essays. New York: Oxford University Press.
  7. The Voices of Wittgenstein. The Vienna Circle. Ludwig Wittgenstein and Friedrich Waismann.Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gordon Baker, Michael Mackert, John Connolly & Vasilis Politis - 2004 - Erkenntnis 60 (2):271-274.
     
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  8. (1 other version)The Primacy of Self-Love in the Nicomachean Ethics.Vasilis Politis - 1993 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 11:153-174.
  9. What do the Arguments in the Protagoras Amount to?Vasilis Politis - 2012 - Phronesis 57 (3):209-239.
    Abstract The main thesis of the paper is that, in the coda to the Protagoras (360e-end), Plato tells us why and with what justification he demands a definition of virtue: namely, in order to resolve a particular aporia . According to Plato's assessment of the outcome of the arguments of the dialogue, the principal question, whether or not virtue can be taught , has, by the end of the dialogue, emerged as articulating an aporia , in that both protagonists, Socrates (...)
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    The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle’s Metaphysics.Vasilis Politis - 2017 - Routledge.
    Aristotle is one of the most important figures in western thought and his seminal work _Metaphysics _is a benchmark in the history of philosophy. This guidebook introduces and assesses: Aristotle’s life and the background to the Metaphysics The ideas and text of the _Metaphysics _including a chapter devoted to _Metaphysics_ Theta The continuing importance and contemporary relevance of Aristotle’s work to philosophy. The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle’s Metaphysics is essential reading for all students of philosophy, and anyone approaching the work (...)
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  11. Aporia and searching in the early Plato.Vasilis Politis - 2005 - In Lindsay Judson & Vassilis Karasmanis (eds.), Remembering Socrates: philosophical essays. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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  12. Explanation and Essence in Plato's Phaedo.Vasilis Politis - 2010 - In David Charles (ed.), Definition in Greek philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 62--114.
     
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  13. Aristotle’s second problem about a science of being qua being.Vasilis Politis & Philipp Steinkrüger - 2017 - Ancient Philosophy 37 (1):59-89.
    It is commonly assumed that Aristotle thinks that his claim that being exhibits a category-based pros hen structure, which he introduces to obviate the problem of categorial heterogeneity, is sufficient to defend the possibility of a science of being qua being. We, on the contrary, argue that Aristotle thinks that the pros hen structure is necessary only, but not sufficient, for this task. The central thesis of our paper is that Aristotle, in what follows 1003b19, raises a second problem for (...)
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    Aristotle’s Account of the Intellect as Pure Capacity.Vasilis Politis - 2001 - Ancient Philosophy 21 (2):375-402.
  15. Anti-realist interpretations of Plato: Paul Natorp.Vasilis Politis - 2001 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 9 (1):47 – 62.
    The paper considers Paul Natorp's Kantian reading of Plato's theory of ideas, as developed in his monumental work, Platos Ideenlehre, eine Einführung in den Idealismus (1903, 1921). Central to Natrop's reading are, I argue, the following two claims: (1) Plato's ideas are laws, not things; and (2) Plato's theory of ideas in the first instance a theory about the possibility and nature of thought - in particular cognitive and indeed scientific or explanatory thought - and only as a consequence is (...)
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    Reasons and values.Vasilis Politis - 1997 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 5 (3):425 – 448.
    Reasons and values Christine Korsgaard's Creating The Kingdom of Ends and The Sources of Normativity , Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp 442. ISBN 0-521-49644-6. Price 40.
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    Aristotle on being as activity: Aryeh Kosman: The activity of being: An essay on Aristotle’s ontology. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, 277pp, $45.00 HB.Jun Su & Vasilis Politis - 2014 - Metascience 24 (2):213-218.
    In this engaging book, Kosman offers a vigorous extended defence of a distinctive and highly ambitious claim, namely, that Aristotle’s account of potentiality/ability and actuality/activity in book Theta of the Metaphysics is an integral and central part of Aristotle’s account of what being is, which means that, for Kosman, Aristotle defends the thesis that being is, precisely, activity. In addition to the distinctive character of this claim, there are two notable suppositions behind it, which, likewise, Kosman defends. First, the Metaphysics (...)
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    Plato, Statesman 275D8–E1.Vasilis Politis - 2021 - Classical Quarterly 71 (2):575-581.
    In his dialogueStatesman(=Plt.), Plato first sets out one way of thinking of the statesperson, on the model of a nurturer of a herd such as a shepherd; then he sets out a very different way of thinking of him, on the model of a weaver of a social fabric. Critics have long been wondering whether Plato wants to combine the two models or, on the contrary, to abandon the nurturing model in favour of the weaving model.This article shows that a (...)
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    The Relation Between Knowledge and Inquiry in the Phaedo.Vasilis Politis - 2020 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 23 (1):51-73.
    What is the relation, in Plato, between the account of knowledge and the account of inquiry? Is the account of knowledge independent of the account of inquiry? These strike me as important, even pressing, questions. While so much work has been done on Plato’s account of knowledge, and quite a lot is being done on his account of inquiry, I know of only the odd critic who has considered the two together. It is remarkable that critics have generally treated of (...)
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    Books briefly noted.Teresa Iglesias, Maire O'Neill, Victor E. Taylor, Thomas Docherty, Pauline Hyde, Joseph S. O'Leary, Vasilis Politis & Mark Dooley - 1995 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 (2):383 – 392.
    Bioethics in a Liberal Societ By Max Charlesworth, Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. 172. ISBN 0?521?44952?9. £9.95 pbk. The Logical Universe: The Real Universe By Noel Curran Avebury, 1994. Pp. 158. ISBN 1?85628?863?3. £32.50. Beyond Postmodern Politics: Lyotard, Rorty, Foucault By Honi Fern Haber Routledge, 1994. Pp.viii + 160. ISBN 0?415?90823?X. $15.95. Baudrillard's Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture By Mike Gane Routledge, 1991, Pp. 184. ISBN 0?415?06307?8. £10.99 pbk. Truth, Fiction and Literature: A Philosophical Perspective By Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom (...)
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    Aristotle’s Advocacy of Non-Productive Action.Vasilis Politis - 1998 - Ancient Philosophy 18 (2):353-379.
  22. (1 other version)Brill Online Books and Journals.Vasilis Politis - 2008 - Phronesis 53 (1).
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    Colloquium 5: Aristotle on Aporia and Searching in Metaphysics.Vasilis Politis - 2003 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 18 (1):145-182.
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    Colloquium 1 How Good is that Thing Called Love? The Volatility of erōs in Plato’s Symposium.Vasilis Politis - 2016 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 31 (1):1-34.
    I argue that the speech of Socrates-Diotima in Plato’s Symposium is in major part addressed to the questions, ‘How good is erōs?’ and ‘Is erōs a good thing or not?’; erōs being characterized as, precisely, the state of the human soul which is the desire for beauty and beautiful things. I conclude that, according to Plato, erōs is not, by itself, good-directed, or, by itself, bad-directed. Rather, erōs is capable of going either way, and which way it will actually go (...)
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  25. in Plato's Phaedo.Vasilis Politis - 2010 - In David Charles (ed.), Definition in Greek philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 62.
     
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    Invoking the Greeks on the Relation Between Thought and Reality: Trendelenburg's Aristotle—Natorp's Plato 1.Vasilis Politis - 2008 - Philosophical Forum 39 (2):191-222.
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    Plato's Essentialism: Reinterpreting the Theory of Forms.Vasilis Politis - 2021 - Cambridge University Press.
    In this book, Vasilis Politis argues that Plato's Forms are essences, not merely things that have an essence. Politis shows that understanding Plato's theory of Forms as a theory of essence presents a serious challenge to contemporary philosophers who regard essentialism as little more than an optional item on the philosophical menu. This approach, he suggests, also constitutes a sharp critique of those who view Aristotelian essentialism as the only sensible position: Plato's essentialism, Politis demonstrates, is a well-argued, rigorous, and (...)
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    11. The Aporia in the Charmides about Reflexive Knowledge and the Contribution to its Solution in the Sun Analogy of the Republic.Vasilis Politis - 2007 - In Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann & Terrence Penner (eds.), Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic. University of Edinburgh. pp. 231-250.
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  29. The apriority of the starting‐point of Kant's transcendental epistemology.Vasilis Politis - 1997 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 5 (2):255 – 284.
    The paper raises two questions, which seem central to understanding Kant's transcendental epistemology in the first Critique. First, Kant claims that the conditions for the possibility of experience are also conditions for the possibility of the objects of experience (A158/B197). Here the notion of an object is not conceived from the divine standpoint ('the view from nowhere') and is in some sense relativized to experience. But in what sense? Is the notion of an object relativized to one specific kind of (...)
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    The Golden Age of Virtue: Aristotle's Ethics.Vasilis Politis & Theodore Scaltsas - 1995 - Philosophical Quarterly 45 (179):258.
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  31. The platonic mind.Vasilis Politis & Peter Larsen (eds.) - 2025 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time. A pivotal figure in the history of philosophy, his work is foundational to the Western philosophical tradition. The Platonic Mind provides a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising over thirty specially commissioned chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into three clear parts: Reading Plato's Dialogues Themes from Plato (...)
     
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    What enables us to search for the essence of things?Vasilis Politis - 2005 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 13 (2):245 - 269.
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    Weakness of the Will.Vasilis Politis - 1992 - Cogito 6 (3):178-181.
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  34. Michael Slote, "From Morality to Virtue". [REVIEW]Vasilis Politis - 1994 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (1):168.
     
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    Self-Refutation - (L.) Castagnoli Ancient Self-refutation. The Logic and History of the Self-refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine. Pp. xx + 394, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Cased, £60. ISBN: 978-0-521-89631-3. [REVIEW]Vasilis Politis - 2012 - The Classical Review 62 (1):86-88.