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  • A play of sorts does emerge from these scenes, but what's lacking is some observance of the good old-fashioned, neo-Aristotelian respect for the dramatic unities.

    An Embarrassment of Riches Paul Levy 2011

  • Ingvar Johansson (1989) and Roderick Chisholm (1996) both take a neo-Aristotelian realist approach to categories, attempting to lay out a complete system of the categories, where this is understood as providing a list of categories of real entities in the world.

    Categories Thomasson, Amie 2009

  • There are other ways out of postmodernity and I highly recommend the neo-Thomist, neo-Aristotelian philospher Alasdair MacIntyre to you...

    Archive 2007-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • But although modern virtue ethics does not have to take the form known as "neo-Aristotelian", almost any modern version still shows that its roots are in ancient Greek philosophy by the employment of three concepts derived from it.

    Virtue Ethics Hursthouse, Rosalind 2007

  • Moreover, as noted above, virtue ethics does not have to be neo-Aristotelian.

    Virtue Ethics Hursthouse, Rosalind 2007

  • As a neo-Aristotelian philosopher, I would like to know what first principles he is talking about.

    Mann's New Divergence "Theory": A Smoothing Artifact « Climate Audit 2007

  • Since, by most modern accounts, Maimonides is to be classified as an Aristotelian (or perhaps neo-Aristotelian), it should stand to reason that, were he really a follower of Ibn Ezra, the latter would also be an Aristotelian.

    Abraham Ibn Ezra Langermann, Tzvi 2006

  • So Williams 'response to the neo-Aristotelian or the Kantian view of practical reason had better not be (and indeed is not) simply to invoke his internal reasons thesis.

    Bernard Williams Chappell, Timothy 2006

  • As he realises, he also needs to argue that there can't be reasons of the kinds that the neo-Aristotelian and the Kantian posit: reasons which are genuinely unconditional, but also genuinely related to each and every agent's actual motivations.

    Bernard Williams Chappell, Timothy 2006

  • Another, related problem for this interpretation is that it represents Spinoza as, not an avant-guard thinker anticipating modern physics, but as a rear guard defender, despite his official anti-scholastic stance, of the traditional neo-Aristotelian doctrines of essence and substantial form, open to the same charges of ad hoc theorizing and appeal to occult powers that Modernity and the Scientific Revolution leveled against it in its their rise to intellectual dominance.

    Spinoza's Physical Theory Manning, Richard 2006

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