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Philosophical forum/The philosophical forum, Apr 18, 2024

Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2002

Phronimon, 2017

Euripides' Medea resonates with modern issues in intimate relationships. However, little has been... more Euripides' Medea resonates with modern issues in intimate relationships. However, little has been written on this, especially from the social-psychological perspective. This paper explores the breakdown of the Jason-Medea marriage in terms of the social-psychological theory of love as an exchange in a power game in which a certain degree of imbalance in the exchange could account for such a breakdown. I analyse the Medea text in terms of Olson and Cromwell's (1975) tripartite theoretical framework, namely: (a) the bases on which social power is built; (b) the processes by which social power is wielded; and (c) the outcomes produced by the use of social power. I find that Medea carried a greater burden of love towards Jason than Jason did towards her, fuelled and sustained by her enduring and greater need for security and happiness. And in intimate relationships, the principle of least interest (Waller and Hill 1951) works: the beloved tends to dominate the lover. Jason, however, overreached himself when he violated the minimum conditions of his own desirability-fidelity to and respect for Medea. I conclude that Medea's violent reaction to Jason's conduct indicates the fragility of love as a basis of social power in intimate relationships.

Phronimon, Aug 31, 2017

Journal of Philosophy and Culture, 2007

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 1991

Page 1. History of Philosophy Quarterly Volume 20, Number 2, April 2003 SOCRATIC WISDOMEmmanuel K... more Page 1. History of Philosophy Quarterly Volume 20, Number 2, April 2003 SOCRATIC WISDOMEmmanuel Kofi Ackah 1 INTRODUCTION Socratic moral philosophy, as Plato represents it to us in his early period dialogues,1 can be read as a search for episte ...

Recent constructivist accounts of Socratic piety tend to ignore the Euthyphro up to 10e. In conse... more Recent constructivist accounts of Socratic piety tend to ignore the Euthyphro up to 10e. In consequence, these accounts miss significant illumination of a Socratic conception of piety. For example, the first half of the Euthyphro bars a Socratic belief in transcendent, fully anthropomorphic gods; hence, it bars a Socratic conception of piety based on such gods. This study draws attention to the implications of this section of the Euthyphro for a new constructive account of Socratic piety and conception of god.

It is a matter of scholarly controversy how much of Socrates' conviction for impiety and for ... more It is a matter of scholarly controversy how much of Socrates' conviction for impiety and for corrupting the youth could be blamed on Socrates' own defence, on the strength of the prosecution's argument, which has not survived, and on prejudicial pre-trial slanders against Socrates. At a point in his trial Socrates was convinced, and he effectively told the jury this, that he has ably disposed of the charges brought against him and that if he is convicted, it would be the result of judicial bias, namely, of the enduring prejudicial pre-trial slanders against him. The burden of this paper is to examine the verifiability of Socrates' claim that he was convicted by a biased jury.

Phronimon

Euripides’ Medea resonates with modern issues in intimate relationships. However, little has been... more Euripides’ Medea resonates with modern issues in intimate relationships. However, little has been written on this, especially from the social-psychological perspective. This paper explores the breakdown of the Jason-Medea marriage in terms of the social-psychological theory of love as an exchange in a power game in which a certain degree of imbalance in the exchange could account for such a breakdown. I analyse the Medea text in terms of Olson and Cromwell’s (1975) tripartite theoretical framework, namely: (a) the bases on which social power is built; (b) the processes by which social power is wielded; and (c) the outcomes produced by the use of social power. I find that Medea carried a greater burden of love towards Jason than Jason did towards her, fuelled and sustained by her enduring and greater need for security and happiness. And in intimate relationships, the principle of least interest (Waller and Hill 1951) works: the beloved tends to dominate the lover. Jason, however, ove...

Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2016

Biology and ecology set optimal limits to our potential for development and significant deviation... more Biology and ecology set optimal limits to our potential for development and significant deviations from these limits threaten our well-being and existence. Yet there seems to be little, if any, concern, for those significant deviations that are atavistic and are reinforced by or are generated from Western industrial modernity, which most Third World countries have adopted as their favoured approach to national development. This paper focuses on nine of the areas in which these deviations occur. The measure of deviation, explicitly or implicitly made, is a select set of lifestyles and life-conditions in modernity and antiquity. The emphasis in this paper on ecologically or biologically efficient lifestyles and lifeconditions in antiquity is not a recommendation to return to the ways of antiquity; it is to highlight the principles and values of wellness embedded in those ways in order to provoke further discussions and to imply either that creative adaptations of those lifestyles and life-conditions are desirable or that policy interventions may be required to address deviations from them.

... 1 Kofi Ackah Kofi Ackah Department of Classics, University of Ghana Abstract It is a matter o... more ... 1 Kofi Ackah Kofi Ackah Department of Classics, University of Ghana Abstract It is a matter of scholarly controversy how much of ... Alcibiades 22.3 the indictment of impiety brought by Thessalus against Alcibiades contains the introductory clause 'adikein peri to theo ten Demetran ...