Thomas F. Morris
Adjunct Instructor

 

Office: Phillips
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Email: tfmorris@gwu.edu

Areas of Interest

Primary Courses Taught at GW

Selected Publications

·         “Plato is not Serious about Platonic Love in Republic 400c-403c,” Existentia 17 (2007), 183-199.

·         “Republic Book One on the Nature of Justice,” forthcoming in Polis.

·         “The True State in Plato’s Republic,” Existentia 16 (2006), 195-208.

·         “The Riddle of Socrates’ Motivation in the Apology,” forthcoming in Dialogos.

·         “Kierkegaard on Taking an Outing to Deer Park,” The Heythrop Journal 48 (2007), 371-383.

·         “Plato’s Laches on What We Should Value,” forthcoming in Scholia.

·         “Plato’s Apology on How Socrates Benefits from Human Wisdom,” Existentia 15 (2005) 233-247.

·         “The Way Out of the Cave,” forthcoming in Scholia.

·         “Socrates’ Ground for Believing in Absolute Truth: Crito 46b4-49d5,” Dialogos  88 (2006) 153-170.

·         “A Truly Dialectical Development of Kierkegaard’s Stages of Existence,” Existentia 14 (2004), 323-336.

·         “On Apology 30b3-5: From Virtue Comes Money and All Other Good Things for Men,” The Ancient World 34 (2003), 43-55.

·         “Plato’s Apology on How Socrates Differs from the Sophists,” The Ancient World 32 (2001), 85-98.

·         “How Crito Ruins His Soul,” The Ancient World 30 (1999), 47-58.

·         "The Opening Section of the Apology," The Ancient World 29 (1998), 53-61.

·         "Why Socrates is All There in the Present: Apology 28a-29b," The Ancient World 28 (1997), 55-65.

·         "Kierkegaard on Despair in Works of Love," in Sex, Love, and Friendship, ed. Alan Soble (Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B. V., 1997), 494-500.

·         "Plato's Ion and What Poetry is About," Ancient Philosophy 13 (1993), 265-272.

·         "Protagoras' Defense of the Teachableness of Virtue," Southwest Philosophy Review, 7 (1991), 47-66.

·         "Temperance and What One Needs in the Charmides," Dialogos 62 (1993), 55-72.

·         "Constatin Constantius' Search for an Acceptable Way of Life," in Fear and Trembling and Repetition, ed. Robert L. Perkins (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1993), 309-334.

·         "Plato's Euthyphro," The Heythrop Journal 21 (1990), 309-323.

·         "The Argument in the Protagoras that No One Does What He Believes To Be Bad," Interpretation 17 (1989-90), 291-304.

·         "Kierkegaard on Despair and the Eternal," Sophia 28 (1989), 21-30.

·         "Knowledge of Knowledge and of Lack of Knowledge in the Charmides," International Studies in Philosophy 21 (1989), 49-61.

·         "'Humor' in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript," The Heythrop Journal 19 (1988), 300-312.

·         "Law and the Cause of Sin in the Epistle to the Romans," The Heythrop Journal 18 (1987), 285-291.

·         "Kierkegaard's Understanding of Socrates," The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 19 (1986), 105-111.

·         "How Can One Form Be In Many Things?" Apeiron 19 (1985), 53-55.

·         "Plato's Lysis," Philosophy Research Archives 11 (1985),  269-279.

·         "The Proof of Pauline Predication in the Phaedo," Philosophy  Research Archives 19 (1984), 139-151.