#George Klosko

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Politics Words #4

Desultory

ADJECTIVE; lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm

“Thus as civil war loomed in England and finally erupted, Hobbes ruminated on the desultory situation.”

(Klosko, George. History of Political Theory: an Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2013. p. 50.)

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Similar with Plato, Rousseau is also an advocate for gender inequality, much to my dismay. Justifying his reasonings as the intentions of nature, in his perspective women have the exact role as those living in Muslim countries- they are but vassals to fulfil men’s desire and reproduction of heirs. Rousseau advocates liberty for men and legitimacy of government for men, and only for men. George Klosko starkly highlighted Rousseau’s lack of consistency in his double standard, fortunately, and from this man we should always remind ourselves the painful existence of misogynists, the blatant advocates for maltreatment of our kind.

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Philosopher of the Month: Plato

This February the OUP Philosophy team honours Plato (c. 427-347 b.c.) as their Philosopher of the Month. Plato was born at Athens in a family of noble descent and was one of the most important figures of the Ancient Greek world. He founded the Academy in Athens, arguably the world’s first university, and was the teacher of Aristotle who was his most accomplished pupil and an equally influential philosopher. Plato wrote more than twenty philosophical dialogues. The Republic is his best-known work and has proven to be one of the most influential works of ancient philosophy. In it he sets out his vision of an ideal just society that is governed by the wisdom of a philosopher king who devotes his life to running the state for the public good. He also believes human happiness is to be found in being a good, virtuous person and not through wealth, status or material things.

For more on this philosopher, explore our collection for blog posts, articles and reading suggestions. Follow us @OUPPhilosophy on Twitter.

Republic, by Plato, translated with introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield, Oxford World’s Classics

Symposium, by Plato, translated with introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield, Oxford World’s Classics

The Oxford Handbook of Plato, edited by Gail Fine, Oxford Handbooks

The Development of Plato's Political Theory, by George Klosko

Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond, by Julia Annas

A Wolf in the City: Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato's Republic, by Cinzia Arruzza

Plato's Moral Psychology, by Rachana Kamtekar

Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates, by Catherine Rowett

Plato: A Very Short Introduction, by Julia Annas from Very Short Introductions

‘Socrates’ Speech: The Nature of Eros’, in Plato's Symposium: The Ethics of Desire by Frisbee Sheffield from  The Oxford Scholarship Online

‘Plato on Love’, by Richard Kraut in The Oxford Handbook of Plato from Oxford Handbooks Online

‘My soul and myself’ in Plato: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas from  Very Short Introductions

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Apeiron, Vol. 50, #1, 2017 Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 94, #4, 2016 Critical Philosophy of Race, Vol. 5, #1, 2017 Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol. 13, #4, 2016 Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 113, #5/6, 2016 Journal of Political Philosophy, Vo. 125, #1, 2017 Law and Philosophy, Vol. 36, #1, 2017 Philosophical Studies, Vol. 174, #1, 2017 Philosophical Studies, Vol. 174, #2, 2017 Political Psychology, Vol. 38, #1, 2017 The Monist, Vol. 99, #1, 2016 The Monist, Vol. 99, #2, 2016 The Monist, Vol. 99, #3, 2016 Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 23, #1, 2017

Apeiron, Vol. 50, #1, 2017 Articles Alex Long. Immortality in Empedocles. Emily A. Austin. Praising the Unjust: The Moral Psychology of Patriotism in Plato’s Protagoras. Naly Thaler. Learning to Read the Small Letters in Republic Book 2. Victor Ilievski. Lot-casting, Divine Interference and Chance in the Myth of Er. K. Darcy Otto. Resemblance and the Regress. Phillip Sidney Horky. The Spectrum of Animal Rationality in Plutarch. Back to Top

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 94, #4, 2016 Articles Galen Berry. Spinoza and the Feeling of Freedom. Greg Janzen. ‘Brain-Malfunction’ Cases and the Dispositionalist Reply to Frankfurt's Attack on PAP. Philip Swenson. Ability, Foreknowledge, and Explanatory Dependence. Travis Timmerman & Yishai Cohen. Moral Obligations: Actualist, Possibilist, or Hybridist? Brandon Warmke. The Normative Significance of Forgiveness. Luke Russell. Forgiving While Punishing. John Eriksson & Ragnar Francén Olinder. Non-Cognitivism and the Classification Account of Moral Uncertainty. Alison Fernandes. Varieties of Epistemic Freedom. Nathan Ballantyne. Verbal Disagreements and Philosophical Scepticism. Brian T. Miller. How to Be a Bayesian Dogmatist. Gordon Belot. Undermined. Joongol Kim. What Are Quantities? Discussion Note Stephen Puryear. Finitism, Divisibilty, and the Beginning of the Universe: Replies to Loke and Dumsday. Book Reviews Derek Baker. Motivational Internalism, edited by Gunnar Björnsson, Strandberg Caj, Ragnar Francén Olinder, John Eriksson, and Fredrik Björkland. Paul Redding. From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars, by Robert B. Brandom. John Ramsey. The Philosophical Challenge from China, edited by Bruya, Brian. Diane Jeske. On Loyalty and Loyalties: The Contours of a Problematic Virtue, by John Kleinig. Magdalena Balcerak Jackson. Knowledge First?, by McGlynn, Aidan. Peter Forrest. Einstein's Genie: Spacetime out of the Bottle, by Graham Nerlich. Marcus Arvan. Transformative Experience, by L.A. Paul. Book Notes Michaelis Michael. Naming, Necessity, and More: Explorations in the Philosophical Work of Saul Kripke, edited by Jonathan Berg. Kerah Gordon-Solmon. Ethics without Intention, by Di Nucci, Ezio. David Coady. A Critical Introduction to Testimony, by Axel Gelfert. Michael J. Olson. Locke's Touchy Subjects: Materialism and Immortality, by Nicholas Jolley. Richard Colledge. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, edited by Graham Oppy. Daniel Cohen. Responsibility from the Margins, by David Shoemaker. Back to Top

Critical Philosophy of Race, Vol. 5, #1, 2017 Special Issue: Charles Mills and His Critics Shannon Sullivan. Smadditizin’ Across the Years: Race and Class in the Work of Charles Mills. Kathryn T. Gines. Black Feminist Reflections on Charles Mills’s “Intersecting Contracts”. Charles W. Mills. Intersectional Meditations: A Reply to Kathryn Gines and Shannon Sullivan. Articles David Kline. The Pragmatics of Resistance: Framing Anti-Blackness and the Limits of Political Ontology. Clevis Headley. On the Historiography of Africana Philosophy: Overcoming Disciplinary Decadence through the Teleological Suspension of Philosophy. H. Alexander Welcome. Snow-Blind in a Blizzard of Their Own Making: Bodies of Structural Harmony and White Male Negrophobes in the Work of Frantz Fanon. Kevin Wolfe. Pragmatism, Racial Solidarity, and Negotiating Social Practices: Evading the Problem of “Problem Solving” Talk. Review Abraham Ramirez. The Future of Whiteness by Linda Martín Alcoff (review). Back to Top

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol. 13, #4, 2016 Editorial Michael A. Ashby, Leigh E. Rich. Which Lane Should We Be In? Recent Developments Bernadette Richards, Michaela E. Okninski. Regulating “Quack” Medicine and Decision-Making For Children Re-visited. Symposium: Composing Disability Abby Wilkerson, Joseph Fisher, Wade Fletcher. Composing Disability: Diagnosis, Interrupted. Jonathan Hsy. Symptom and Surface: Disruptive Deafness and Medieval Medical Authority. Jennifer Bartlett. from The Hindrances of a Householder. David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder. The Matter of Disability. Kenneth Jacobs. Grateful. A. Cvetkovich, A. Wilkerson. Disability and Depression. Ellen Forney. Bipolar 1 As Graphic Memoir. Theodora Danylevich. De-Privatizing Self-Harm: Remembering the Social Self in How to Forget. Original Research Katharina M. Ruhe, Eva De Clercq, Tenzin Wangmo. Relational Capacity: Broadening the Notion of Decision-Making Capacity in Paediatric Healthcare. Vida Jeremic, Karine Sénécal, Pascal Borry. Participation of Children in Medical Decision-Making: Challenges and Potential Solutions. T. M. Wilkinson, I. D. Dittmer. Should Children Be Given Priority in Kidney Allocation? Scott Lamont, Cameron Stewart, Mary Chiarella. Documentation of Capacity Assessment and Subsequent Consent in Patients Identified With Delirium. Megan A. Dean, Elizabeth Victor, Laura Guidry-Grimes. Inhospitable Healthcare Spaces: Why Diversity Training on LGBTQIA Issues Is Not Enough. Paul Walker, Terry Lovat. Dialogic Consensus In Clinical Decision-Making. Critical Perspectives Emily Reeve, Petra Denig, Sarah N. Hilmer, Ruud ter Meulen. The Ethics of Deprescribing in Older Adults. Erratum Holly Louise Northam. Erratum to: Hard to Believe: Produced by Ken Stone and Irene Silber, 2015, Swoop Films and Stone Soup Productions (New York, 56 minutes, unrated). Back to Top

Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 113, #5/6, 2016 Editorial The Editors. Foreword. Articles Solomon Feferman. Parsons and I: Sympathies and Differences. Peter Koellner. Infinity up on Trial: Reply to Feferman. W. W. Tait. Kant and Finitism. W. Sieg. On Tait on Kant and Finitism. Charles Parsons. Reply to Feferman, Koellner, Tait, and Sieg. New Books: Anthologies Back to Top

Journal of Political Philosophy, Vo. 125, #1, 2017 Lucas Prize in Dynamic Economics. Articles Jeffrey Clemens, Joshua D. Gottlieb. In the Shadow of a Giant: Medicare’s Influence on Private Physician Payments. Marina Agranov, Pietro Ortoleva. Stochastic Choice and Preferences for Randomization. Itai Ashlagi, Yash Kanoria, Jacob D. Leshno. Unbalanced Random Matching Markets: The Stark Effect of Competition. Yan Chen, Onur Kesten. Chinese College Admissions and School Choice Reforms: A Theoretical Analysis. Jack Favilukis, Sydney C. Ludvigson, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk Sharing in General Equilibrium. Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Philipp Kircher. Matching, Sorting, and the Distributional Effects of International Trade. Nir Jaimovich, Sergio Rebelo. Nonlinear Effects of Taxation on Growth. Back to Top

Law and Philosophy, Vol. 36, #1, 2017 Original Papers Harrison Frye, George Klosko. Democratic Authority and Respect for the Law. Kerah Gordon-Solmon. Why More Choice is Sometimes Worse than Less. Jeffrey W. Howard. Punishment as Moral Fortification. Adriana Placani. When the Risk of Harm Harms. Book Reviews C. Kletzer. Book Review. Vincent Chiao. Book Review. Back to Top

Philosophical Studies, Vol. 174, #1, 2017 Special Issue: Go Figure, edited by Mihaela Popa-Wyatt Editorial Note Mihaela Popa-Wyatt. Go Figure: Understanding Figurative Talk. Original Papers David Hills. The What and the How of Metaphorical Imagining, Part One. Mitchell Green. Imagery, Expression and Metaphor. Elisabeth Camp. Why Metaphors Make Good Insults: Perspectives, Presupposition, and Pragmatics. Ofra Magidor. Category Mistakes and Figurative Language. Laurence Horn. Lie-Toe-Tease: Double Negatives and Unexcluded Middles. Kendall L. Walton. Meiosis, Hyperbole, Irony. Stephen Barker. Figurative Speech: Pointing a Poisoned Arrow at the Heart of Semantics. Anna Mahtani. Deference, Respect and Intensionality. Carl David Mildenberger. Virtual Killing. Andrea Sauchelli. The Animal, the Corpse and the Remnant-Person. Kalle Grill. Asymmetric Population Axiology: Deliberative Neutrality Delivered. Julia Zakkou. Jesus Loves You! Leonhard Menges. The Emotion Account of Blame. Erratum Kendall L. Walton. Erratum to: Meiosis, Hyperbole, Irony. Back to Top

Philosophical Studies, Vol. 174, #2, 2017 Original Papers Alfred r. Mele. Direct Control. Liam Kofi Bright. On Fraud. Earl Conee. Good to Know. Alan H. Goldman. What Desires Are, and Are Not. Antonia Peacocke. Embedded Mental Action in Self-Attribution of Belief. Kelly McCormick. A Dilemma for Morally Responsible Time Travelers. Matthew Frise. No Need to Know. Peter V. Forrest. Can Phenomenology Determine the Content of Thought? Roberto Horácio de Sá Pereira. A Nonconceptualist Reading of the B-Deduction. Jessica Flanigan. Rethinking Freedom of Content. T. J. Kasperbauer. Mentalizing Animals: Implications for Moral Psychology and Animal Ethics. Luis R. G. Oliveira. Deontological Evidentialism, Wide-Scope, and Privileged Values. Samuel Murray. Responsibility and Vigilance. Amandine Catala. Secession and Distributive Justice. Back to Top

Political Psychology, Vol. 38, #1, 2017 Articles Juan E. Ugarriza and Enzo Nussio. The Effect of Perspective-Giving on Postconflict Reconciliation. An Experimental Approach. Mara Ostfeld. The Backyard Politics of Attitudes Toward Immigration. Esra Cuhadar, Juliet Kaarbo, Baris Kesgin and Binnur Ozkececi-Taner. Personality or Role? Comparisons of Turkish Leaders Across Different Institutional Positions. Xiaowen Xu and Jordan B. Peterson. Differences in Media Preference Mediate the Link Between Personality and Political Orientation. Stefano Passini. Different Ways of Being Authoritarian: The Distinct Effects of Authoritarian Dimensions on Values and Prejudice. Michal Bilewicz, Wiktor Soral, Marta Marchlewska and Mikołaj Winiewski. When Authoritarians Confront Prejudice. Differential Effects of SDO and RWA on Support for Hate-Speech Prohibition. Jona Linde and Barbara Vis. Do Politicians Take Risks Like the Rest of Us? An Experimental Test of Prospect Theory Under MPs. Christina Mölders, Niels Van Quaquebeke and Maria Paola Paladino. Consequences of Politicians’ Disrespectful Communication Depend on Social Judgment Dimensions and Voters’ Moral Identity. Alessandro Nai, Yves Schemeil and Jean-Louis Marie. Anxiety, Sophistication, and Resistance to Persuasion: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Survey on Global Climate Change. Book Review Essay Valerie Hudson and Barry R. Posen. Debates Over U.S. Foreign Policy: A Critical Dialogue. Back to Top

The Monist, Vol. 99, #1, 2016 Special Issue: Philosophy and War Articles Philip J. Rossi. War As Morally Unintelligible: Sovereign Agency and the Limits of Kantian Autonomy. David C. Graves. Martial Arts and the Artworld. Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen. Aidōs and Dikē in International Humanitarian Law: Is IHL a Legal or a Moral System? Kevin P. Tobia. The Language of War. David Whetham. “Are We Fighting Yet?” Can Traditional Just War Concepts Cope with Contemporary Conflict and the Changing Character of War? Christopher J. Eberle. Rights, Goods, and Proportionate War. Elad Uzan. Soldiers, Civilians, and in Bello Proportionality: A Proposed Revision. Back to Top

The Monist, Vol. 99, #2, 2016 Special Issue: Virtues Articles Julia Driver. Minimal Virtue. Mauro Rossi; Christine Tappolet. Virtue, Happiness, and Well-Being. Peggy DesAutels. Power, Virtue, and Vice. Jacob Berger; Mark Alfano. Virtue, Situationism, and the Cognitive Value of Art. Quassim Cassam. Vice Epistemology. Ian James Kidd. Charging Others with Epistemic Vice. Brian Robinson. Character, Caricature, and Gossip. Noell Birondo. Virtue and Prejudice: Giving and Taking Reasons. Back to Top

The Monist, Vol. 99, #3, 2016 Special Issue: Scientific Fiction-Making Articles Roman Frigg; James Nguyen. The Fiction View of Models Reloaded. Fiora Salis. The Nature of Model-World Comparisons. Alisa Bokulich. Fiction As a Vehicle for Truth: Moving Beyond the Ontic Conception. Adam Toon. Fictionalism and the Folk. Gregory Currie. Models As Fictions, Fictions As Models. Elay Shech. Fiction, Depiction, and the Complementarity Thesis in Art and Science. Back to Top

Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 23, #1, 2017 Review Paper Mirjam Burget, Emanuele Bardone, Margus Pedaste. Definitions and Conceptual Dimensions of Responsible Research and Innovation: A Literature Review. Original Papers Boudewijn de Bruin, Luciano Floridi. The Ethics of Cloud Computing. John Danaher. Will Life Be Worth Living in a World Without Work? Technological Unemployment and the Meaning of Life. Ali Khaki Sedigh. Ethics: An Indispensable Dimension in the University Rankings. Barbara E. Ribeiro, Robert D. J. Smith, Kate Millar. A Mobilising Concept? Unpacking Academic Representations of Responsible Research and Innovation. Sven Ove Hansson. The Ethics of Doing Ethics. David J. Hartmann, Thomas Van Valey, Wayne Fuqua. Coding Ethical Decision-Making in Research. Meghnaa Tallapragada, Gina M. Eosco, Katherine A. McComas. Aware, Yet Ignorant: Exploring the Views of Early Career Researchers About Funding and Conflicts of Interests in Science. Vanja Pupovac, Snježana Prijić-Samaržija. Research Misconduct in the Croatian Scientific Community: A Survey Assessing the Forms and Characteristics of Research Misconduct. Elaine Howard Ecklund, Di Di. A Gendered Approach to Science Ethics for US and UK Physicists. Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Divya Trivedi, Tanuj Kanchan. Patients’ Awareness About Their Rights: A Study from Coastal South India. Vilius Dranseika, Jan Piasecki, Marcin Waligora. Relevant Information and Informed Consent in Research: In Defense of the Subjective Standard of Disclosure. J. Scott Remer. Bribery and Its Ethical Implications for Aid Workers in the Developing World. Robert T. Pennock, Michael O’Rourke. Developing a Scientific Virtue-Based Approach to Science Ethics Training. Rafael Miñano, Ángel Uruburu, Ana Moreno-Romero. Strategies for Teaching Professional Ethics to IT Engineering Degree Students and Evaluating the Result. Amber M. Henslee, Susan L. Murray, Gayla R. Olbricht. Assessing Freshman Engineering Students’ Understanding of Ethical Behavior. Opinion Amin Asadi, Nader Rahbar, Meisam Asadi, Fahime Asadi. Online-Based Approaches to Identify Real Journals and Publishers from Hijacked Ones. Letters Somsri Wiwanitkit, Viroj Wiwanitkit. Responses of Authors Accused of Plagiarism by Journal Editors. Govindasamy Agoramoorthy. Time for Revelation: Unmasking the Anonymity of Blind Reviewers. Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani. Chinese and Iranian Scientific Publications: Fast Growth and Poor Ethics. Magdy A. Kharoshah, Syed Ather Hussain, Mohammed Madadin. Consented Autopsy and the Middle-East. Back to Top

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Every year the third Thursday in November marks World Philosophy Day, UNESCO's collaborative 'initiative towards building inclusive societies, tolerance and peace’. To celebrate, we’ve curated a reading list of books and online resources on social and political philosophy, ranging from authority, democracy to human rights, as well as historical texts by philosophers who shaped the modern world. Browse the entries and start reading today.

Celebrate philosophy and explore our collection for more blog posts, articles and reading suggestions. Follow us @OUPPhilosophy on Twitter.

Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates, by Catherine Rowett

Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes, by Timothy Raylor

John Locke: Literary and Historical Writings, by J.R. Milton,

Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction, by Christopher J. Berry

Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution, by J. C. D. Clark

The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Sandrine Berges and Alan M. S. J. Coffee

Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, edited by Emily Anne Parker and Anne van Leeuwen

Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960, by Gary Gutting

 ‘Confucian Political Philosophy’ by George Klosko in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy

 Adam Smith’s Libertarian Paternalism’, by James R. Otteson in The Oxford Handbook of Freedom

‘Sophists, Epicureans, and Stoics’, by Mirko Canevaro and Benjamin Gray, in The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought  from The Oxford Scholarship Online

‘In Defense of Uncivil Disobedience’ by Candice Delmas, in A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil from The Oxford Scholarship Online

‘A chastened individualism? Existentialism and social thought’ in  Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction: VSI by Thomas Flynn from  Very Short Introductions

‘Looking At Rights’, in Human Rights: A VSI by Andrew Clapham from  Very Short Introductions

‘Why do we need political philosophy?’, by David Miller in Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction from  Very Short Introductions