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Soul, Triangle and Virtue. On the Figure of Implicit Comparison in Plato’s Meno

open access: yesPeitho, 2017
Plato’s dialogues can be regarded as the most important documents of the extraordinary mimetic power of visual writing, i.e., writing capable of “showing” and “drawing images” by using words only.
Lidia Palumbo
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The Paradox of "Natural" Heterosexuality with "Unnatural" Women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This essay examines the debates between advocates of heterosexual and pederastic love in Plutarch's Amatorius, Achilles Tatius 2.33-38, and the Lucianic Erotes.
Hubbard, Thomas K.
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“A Practice of Fairness”: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City

open access: yesPublic Administration, Volume 103, Issue 4, Page 1022-1037, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Social justice is often theorized as fairness and expressed in equity as part of public administration and associated budgeting practices. Whereas much literature contrasted deontological positions, emphasizing a procedural justice with fairness based on rules, with consequentialist theory that emphasizes a distributional justice based on ...
Laurence Ferry, Thomas Ahrens
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Psychagogia in Plato's Phaedrus [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
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Asmus, Elizabeth
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The Moral Force of Guidelines: How Surgeons Use Evidence‐Based Medicine to Curb Their Interventionism

open access: yesSociology of Health &Illness, Volume 47, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The epistemology of evidence‐based medicine (EBM) is said to clash with the culture of surgery: EBM demands contemplation, whereas surgeons prize decisive, and even heroic, action. How, then, have surgeons come to embrace EBM? To answer this question, I analysed evidence‐based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and interviewed 15 attending ...
Clay Davis
wiley   +1 more source

The Sophistic Esprit Français: Sophistry and Elite French Humanistic Education

open access: yesHumanities
This essay examines the role of sophistic practices in elite French humanistic education, specifically “omniloquacity”, the ability to speak about any given subject.
Jonathan Doering
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Qua‐Talk and Other Forms of Quackery: Part Two

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 11, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This is the second part of a two‐part paper, the first part having appeared in issue 11 of volume 20 of Philosophy Compass. Part One covers the use of the “qua” locution in connection with David Lewis, Kit Fine, and Donald Davidson. Part Two covers the use of “qua” in Aristotle, Spinoza, and Kant.
James Van Cleve
wiley   +1 more source

Kantian moral change

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1057-1080, November 2025.
Abstract Kantian ethics is traditionally seen as grounded in unchanging, universally binding, and a priori knowable principles. I argue that this picture is incomplete: Kant grounds his ethics not only in categorical moral principles, but also in regulative moral ideas of reason.
Sabina Vaccarino Bremner
wiley   +1 more source

Z rodowodu klasycznego prawa naturalnego

open access: yesStudia Prawa Publicznego, 2019
The issue of natural law has been mentioned by almost all philosophers of law, from the classical ones of ancient Greece to contemporary postmodernists, and is presented in various ways.
Aleksandra Szadok-Bratuń   +1 more
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