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Lawrence Jost
Areas of Specialization
Ph.D., 1973, University of Toronto
lawrence.jost@uc.edu
Department of Philosophy
University of Cincinnati
P. O. Box 210374
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0374
Ethics, theoretical & applied; Greek philosophy; Social/ Political; Marx, Freud; philosophy and literature.
Larry Jost's primary research interests are in the writings of Aristotle, Plato and other Greek philosophers from the Pre-Socratics through the various Hellenistic schools. He has also worked in ethics and social and political philsophy, especially the thought of Karl Marx. His main focus in recent years has been in the study of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, a work long eclipsed by the more familiar Nicomachean Ethics; the relationship between the two presents interesting problems for our understanding of Aristotle's philosophical development. But, he continues to do graduate courses and seminars on a variety of subjects, including the metaphysical and epistemological works of Plato, Aristotle, Skeptics and Stoics, their views on art and literature, the philosophy of mind, ethics, etc.. An avid student of Greek literature generally, with special appreciation of Homer, the tragedians and lyric poets, he has good ties with the quite strong Classics Department at the University of Cincinnati, and team-teaches with members of their department from time to time. In ethics he has worked on metaethical topics primarily (e.g. moral realism, naturalism, prescriptivism) as well as normative issues raised by utilitarianism and contemporary virtue theory.
Selected Publications
Co-editor of Apeiron XXXV (4), "Eudaimonia and Well-Being: Ancient and Modern Conception", 2002. With an introduction, "Was Polybius a Meta-Ethical Theorist of Skeptical or Subjectivist Stripe?", pp. 125-136.
"Owen and the 'Single-Science' Argument in the Eudemian Ethics", The Southern Journal of Philosophy XXXIX (2), 2001, pp. 207-218.
Critical Review of A Companion to Aristotle's Poltics, Keyt & Miller (eds), Teaching Philosophy, v. 18, no. 1, March, 1995: 96-98.
"Eudemian Ethical Method", in Aristotle's Ethics:Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV, Anton & Preus (eds), SUNY Press, 1991: 29-40.
"Aristotle's Ethics - Have We Been Teaching the Wrong One?", Teaching Philosophy, v. 6, no.4, October, 1983: 331-340.
"A 'Descriptivist' Reading of Aristotle's Treatment of Virtue-Terms", Apeiron, v. XIII, no. 1,1979: 41-48.
"EN 6.1141b20", Classical Philology, v. 72, no. 2, April, 1977: 138-144.
"On a Prescriptivist Dichotomy", Mind, v. LXXXV, no. 338, April, 1976: 15-19.
