Charles David C. Reeve (born September 10, 1948) is a

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professor at the

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. He works primarily with

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, especially

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and

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. He has also published work on the

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, and

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. He has translated many texts in

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, mostly by Plato and Aristotle.

List of works

Books

* ''Philosopher-Kings: The Argument of Plato's Republic''. (Princeton 1988; reissued 2006) * ''Socrates in the Apology: An Essay On Plato's Apology of Socrates''. (Hackett 1989) * ''Practices of Reason''. (Oxford, 1992) * ''Substantial Knowledge''. (Hackett 2000) * ''Love's Confusions''. (Harvard 2005)

Translations

* ''Plato's Republic''. (1992) G. M. A. Grube; revised by C. D. C. Reeve">George_Grube.html" ;"title="ranslated by George Grube">G. M. A. Grube; revised by C. D. C. Reeve* ''Plato's Cratylus''. (1997) * ''Aristotle's Politics''. (1998; revised edition, 2017) * ''The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts''. (2002) [editor; also translator of ''Euthyphro'', ''Apology'', ''Crito'', and ''Phaedo'' 115b1-118a17] * ''Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito''. (2002) * ''Plato's Republic''. (2004) * ''Plato's Meno''. (2006) * ''Plato On Love: Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, with Selections from Republic and Laws''. (2006) ditor; translated ''Republic'' and ''Laws'' only* ''A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus and Republic)''. (2012) * ''Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics''. (2014) * ''Aristotle's Metaphysics''. (2016) * ''Aristotle's De Anima''. (2017) * ''Aristotle's Physics''. (2018) * ''Aristotle's Rhetoric''. (2018) * ''Aristotle's Generation of Animals with History of Animals I and Parts of Animals I''. (2019) * ''Aristotle's De Caelo''. (2020) * ''Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics''. (2021) * ''Plato's Laws''. (2022)

Select essays

* "Anaxagorean Panspermism" (1981). ''

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''. 1: 89-108 * "Motion, Rest, and Dialectic in the ''Sophist''" (1985). ''

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie ''Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie'' (English: ''Archive for the History of Philosophy'') is a peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy. It publishes in German, English, French, and Italian. It focuses on the history of philosophy and was ...

''. 67: 47-64 * "Socrates Meets Thrasymachus" (1985). ''Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie''. 67: 246-265

References

External links

Reeve's webpage at UNC
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