Oded Balaban
List of John Benjamins publications for which Oded Balaban plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 7. Science and the source of legitimacy in democratic regimes Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts, Barrotta, Pierluigi and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 127–144 | Chapter
… the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way.
George Orwell (1968, pp. 132–3)
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2008 The moral intellectualism of Plato’s Socrates: The case of the Hippias Minor Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 13. 2008, Mojsisch, Burkhard, Olaf Pluta und Rudolf Rehn (Hrsg.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Commentators do not take Socrates’ theses in the Hippias Minor seriously. They believe it is an aporetic dialogue and even that Socrates does not mean what he says. Hence they are unable to understand the presuppositions behind Socrates’ two interconnected theses: that those who do wrong and lie… read more