John Rist

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John Rist is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, University of Toronto, The Catholic University of America, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, John Michael Rist is a British scholar of ancient philosophy, classics, and early Christian philosophy and theology, known mainly for his contributions to the history of metaphysics and ethics. He is the author of monographs on Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicurus, Plotinus, the dating of the Gospels, and Augustine. Rist is Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Toronto and part-time Visiting Professor at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome, held the Father Kurt Pritzl, O.P., Chair in Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. , and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. During his lengthy academic career he has been Regius Professor of Classics at the University of Aberdeen , Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto , and the Lady Davis Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

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Evidence for shifting baseline syndrome in conservation (2009) (395)
Augustine: Index of modern authors (1994) (227)
Augustine: List of Abbreviations (1994) (214)
The mind of Aristotle : a study in philosophical growth (1989) (120)
Plotinus: The Road to Reality. (1977) (100)
Eros and Psyche: Studies in Plato, Plotinus and Origen (1964) (82)
Epicurus: An Introduction. (1973) (79)
Plotinus on Matter and Evil (1961) (78)
Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (1994) (75)
The Essential Plotinus (1964) (58)
Human Value: A Study in Ancient Philosophical Ethics (1982) (51)
Plato's Meno (1963) (49)
The Golden Chain: Studies in the Development of Platonism and Christianity (1994) (48)
AUGUSTINE ON FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION (1969) (35)
Forms of Individuals in Plotinus (1963) (33)
What Will I Be Like Tomorrow? Augustine versus Hume (2000) (31)
Epicurus on Friendship (1980) (26)
An Early Dispute About Right Reason (1983) (25)
A Note On Eros and Agape in Pseudo-Dionysius (1965) (20)
Augustine and Religious Freedom (2016) (20)
Augustine's City of God : On the nature and worth of Christian philosophy: evidence from the City of God (2012) (20)
Facets of Plato's Philosophy (1978) (20)
Monism: Plotinus and Some Predecessors (1965) (19)
Plutarch’s Amatorius: A Commentary on Plato’s Theories of Love? (2001) (19)
The Greeks and the Environment (1997) (18)
Plotinus and the "Daimonion" of Socrates (1963) (17)
Real Ethics: Reconsidering the Foundations of Morality (2001) (17)
Demetrius the Stylist and Artemon the Compiler (1964) (16)
A History of Greek Philosophy. Volume 4. Plato, the Man and His Dialogues: Earlier Period@@@A History of Greek Philosophy. Volume 5. The Later Plato and the Academy (1981) (16)
Plotinus and Christian philosophy (1996) (16)
Al-Kindī's Discussion of Divine Existence and Oneness (1963) (16)
Platonism and its Christian heritage (1985) (16)
The Indefinite Dyad and Intelligible Matter in Plotinus (1962) (15)
Neopythagoreanism and 'Plato's' second letter (1965) (15)
Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism: The Latin Tradition (1988) (14)
The Neoplatonic One and Plato's Parmenides (1962) (14)
Seneca and Stoic Orthodoxy (1989) (13)
On Inoculating Moral Philosophy Against God (2000) (12)
COLLOQUIUM 3: THE POSSIBILITY OF MORALITY IN PLATO' S REPUBLIC (1998) (12)
Integration and the Undescended Soul in Plotinus (1967) (12)
Pleasure: 360-300 B. C. (1974) (11)
The mind of Aristotle (1989) (10)
Plato's Moral Realism: The Discovery of the Presuppositions of Ethics (2012) (10)
Notes on Aristotle De Anima 3. 5 (1966) (9)
Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2001) (9)
What is Truth?: From the Academy to the Vatican (2008) (9)
Pseudo-Ammonius and the soul/body problem in some Platonic texts of late antiquity. (1988) (8)
Equals and Intermediates in Plato (1964) (8)
Some Aspects of Aristotelian Teleology (1965) (8)
Zeno and Stoic Consistency (1977) (8)
Back to the Mysticism of Plotinus: Some More Specifics (1989) (7)
Theos and the One in Some Texts of Plotinus (1962) (6)
On the independence of Matthew and Mark (1981) (6)
The Heracliteanism of Aenesidemus (1970) (6)
Augustine Deformed: The Age of Deception (2014) (5)
COHERENCE AND THE GOD OF LOVE (1972) (5)
Augustine Deformed: Love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition (2014) (4)
Morals and metaphysics (2001) (4)
Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (2000) (4)
THE IMMANENCE AND TRANSCENDENCE OF THE PLATONIC FORM (1964) (4)
Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and their Influence (1993) (3)
Grace, Politics and Desire: Essays on Augustine (2004) (3)
Morality and Religion: Some Questions about First Principles (2011) (3)
Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern (2003) (3)
Pseudo-Elias (Pseudo-David), Lectures on Porphyry's Isagoge. Introduction, Text and Indices (1967) (3)
Man, Soul, and Body: Essays in Ancient Thought from Plato to Dionysius (1996) (3)
On Greek Biology, Greek Cosmology and Some Sources of Theological Pneuma (1985) (3)
Epictetus: Discourses Book I. (1999) (3)
ST. JOHN AND AMELIUS (1969) (2)
Plato's Moral Realism: Aquinas on emotion (2012) (2)
RETHINKING AUGUSTINE'S EARLY THEOLOGY: AN ARGUMENT FOR CONTINUITY by Carol Harrison (2006) (2)
LUKE 2:2: MAKING SENSE OF THE DATE OF JESUS' BIRTH (2005) (2)
Ratzinger on the Faith: A Criticism of the Critics (1985) (2)
Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate by Richard Sorabji (review) (2018) (2)
The End of Aristotle's on Prayer (1985) (2)
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine. Edited by David Vincent Meconi and Eleonore Stump (2015) (2)
The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages by Penelope Reed Doob (review) (2017) (2)
Les Sources de Plotin (1961) (2)
Matthew, Luke & Mark (1979) (2)
Knowledge and Value in Plato (1967) (1)
Democracy and Religious Values: Augustine on Locke, Lying and Individualism (1998) (1)
Judgment, Reaction and the Common Good (2008) (1)
MacIntyre's Idea of a University: Theory and Practice (2013) (1)
The McCabe Reader (2017) (1)
Augustine: Evil, justice and divine omnipotence (1994) (1)
Plato's Moral Realism (2012) (1)
The Cambridge Companion to Plato ed. by Richard Kraut (review) (2018) (1)
Autonomy and choice (2001) (1)
Platonism Pagan and Christian: Studies in Plotinus and Augustine (2002) (1)
Parmenides and Plato's Parmenides (1970) (1)
A MAN OF MONSTROUS VANITY (1991) (1)
PHILOSOPHY AND ITS PUBLIC ROLE edited by William Aiken and John Haldane, St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Imprint Academic, Exeter, 2004, Pp.viii+272, £14.95, pbk.{PRIVATE} (2005) (1)
Real Ethics: Frontmatter (2001) (1)
The Order of the Later Dialogues of Plato (1960) (1)
The "Parmenides" Again (1962) (1)
Philosophia Togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome (1998) (1)
The Aviary Model in the Theaetetus (1963) (1)
What is a Person? (2019) (1)
A Parliament of Souls. Limits and Renewals 2. By Stephen R. L. Clark. Pp. x+192. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. £25. (1991) (0)
Augustine: Soul, body and personal identity (1994) (0)
Augustine: Will, love and right action (1994) (0)
On the Platonism of Gregpry of Nyssa (2000) (0)
PLATO: VALUE AND FORM (1982) (0)
Parfit and Heidegger (2019) (0)
Lectures 6 : program 13 (2007) (0)
On the independence of Matthew and Mark: More skimpings and bowdlerizings in Matthew (1978) (0)
Augustine Deformed: Inspirational Augustine (2014) (0)
A.C. Lloyd , The Anatomy of Neoplatonism . Reviewed by (1991) (0)
Augustine: Bibliographical note (1994) (0)
A.A. Long and D.N. Sedley , The Hellenistic Philosophers: Vol I, Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical Commentary . Reviewed by (1987) (0)
Book Review:Aristotle's Man: Speculations upon Aristotelian Anthropology Stephen R. L. Clark (1977) (0)
Back Matter (1970) (0)
Real Ethics: Introduction: Ethical crises old and new (2001) (0)
Real Ethics: Moral nihilism: Socrates vs. Thrasymachus (2001) (0)
Book Review:Structural Semantics: An Analysis of Part of the Vocabulary of Plato John Lyons (1966) (0)
Strawson and Nagel (2019) (0)
Thomas Aquinas and his predecessors. The philosophers and the Church Fathers in his works. By Leo J. Elders. Pp. xviii + 381. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018. $75. 978 0 813 23027 6 (2019) (0)
Augustine: Porphyry's Account of the Sentence in the De-Magistro (1994) (0)
Augustine: Words, signs and things (1994) (0)
STOICISM: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF THE ART (1985) (0)
Augustine: Notes on chronology (1994) (0)
On the independence of Matthew and Mark: Some passages about Peter in Matthew (1978) (0)
Real Ethics: God and ethics (2001) (0)
Descartes on Soul, Self, Mind, Nature (2019) (0)
Book Review: Jesse Couenhoven, Stricken by Sin, Cured by Christ: Agency, Necessity, and Culpability in Augustinian Theology and Eric L. Jenkins, Free to Say No? Free Will and Augustine’s Evolving Doctrines of Grace and Election (2015) (0)
Virtue, ‘Virtue’, Rights (2019) (0)
(P.) Hadot Porphyre et Victorinus. 2 vols. Paris: Études Augustiniennes. 1968. Pp. 503, 174. 1 plate. Price not stated. (1970) (0)
Augustine Deformed: The Rise and Fall of Lopsided Augustinianism (2014) (0)
The ‘Apeiron’ of Anaximander . By Paul Seligman. University of London, Athlone Press; Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1962. P. x, 181. $7.00. (1963) (0)
From Stoic Individuals andPersonaeto Christian Persons (2019) (0)
On the Use and Abuse of the Concept of Gender. (2016) (0)
Augustine Deformed: Awe-ful Augustine (2014) (0)
Book Review. Reading Neoplatonism: Non‐Discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus and Damascius Sara Rappe (2001) (0)
Assimilation and Homogenization (2019) (0)
The Way of Prometheus (2019) (0)
On the independence of Matthew and Mark: M. D. Goulder on the Synoptic Problem (1978) (0)
Divine beauty: Nature, art and humanity (2008) (0)
Real Ethics: The past, present and future of practical reasoning (2001) (0)
What is Truth?: Divine justice and man's “genetic” flaw (2008) (0)
The end of Mark (1978) (0)
Margaret E. Reesor: The Nature of Man in Early Stoic Philosophy . Pp. ix + 179. London: Duckworth, 1989. £24.00. (1990) (0)
Platonic Soul, Aristotelian Form, Christian Person (1998) (0)
Dionysius’ Christianity: Towards Understanding the Preconditions of the post-Reformation Debate (2016) (0)
Marenbon, John. Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz (2016) (0)
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity (review) (2012) (0)
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 750 (2012) (0)
METAPHYSICS OR SOCIOLOGY (1982) (0)
The Integrated Self: Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought. By Brian Stock (2017) (0)
Augustine: Individuals, social institutions and political life (1994) (0)
Summary and prospects (1978) (0)
Timothy Chappell, Knowing What to Do: Imagination, Virtue and Platonism in Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). viii + 339, price £45.00 hb. (2015) (0)
On The Trail Of Animal Academicum (1956–2013) (2019) (0)
9. In Search of the Divine Denis (1964) (0)
The World of Rights Transformed Again (2019) (0)
Sympathy or Empathy: Richardson, Hume, Smith (2019) (0)
On Creation, Science, Disenchantment and the Contours of Being and Knowing (2020) (0)
On the independence of Matthew and Mark: The Literary hypothesis: some preliminary tests (Mt 3:1 - 9:17) (1978) (0)
The Augustinian Tradition (2000) (0)
Proclus. Éléments de théologie. Trans. J. Trouillard. Paris: F. Aubier. 1965. Pp. 193. Price not stated. (1967) (0)
ARISTOTLE: MIND AND PERSON (1982) (0)
Reformed Augustine, Genetically Modified Adam (2014) (0)
Looking at hopes and fears in the rear mirror (2008) (0)
Augustine: Certainty, belief and understanding (1994) (0)
Separating Morality and Salvation (2014) (0)
Stephen Mulhall, The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). Pp viii + 138, £27.50 hb. (2017) (0)
The Definition: Boethius and Richard of Saint Victor (2019) (0)
Plotinus, Self and the World. By Raoul Mortley (2015) (0)
Augustine Deformed: Anselm (2014) (0)
INDIVIDUALS AND PERSONS (1982) (0)
Introducing the Five Ways (2019) (0)
Theophrastus and the Intellect as Mixture (2016) (0)
Augustine Deformed: ‘Augustine’ and ‘Aristotle’ (2014) (0)
Augustine Deformed: Love, Will and the Moral Sense (2014) (0)
CLAIMING ONE’S RIGHTS (1982) (0)
Book Review:Cahiers de philologie, vol. 1: Etudes sur l'epicurisme antique Jean Bollack, Andre Laks (1982) (0)
Cosmic Problems: Essays on Greek and Roman Philosophy of Nature by David Furley (review) (2018) (0)
Ambiguous Rousseau’s Soul and ‘Moi’ (2019) (0)
The immanence and transcendence of the platonic form (1964) (0)
THE MORAL THEOLOGY OF JOHN PAUL II, by Charles E. Curran (2007) (0)
The soul and the self (2001) (0)
Celenza, Christopher S.: Machiavelli: A Portrait (2016) (0)
On Plotinus' Psycology (2006) (0)
On the independence of Matthew and Mark: Notes (1978) (0)
Epicurus. An Introduction (1973) (0)
Plato's Progress . By Gilbert Ryle. Cambridge University Press; Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada. 1966. Pp. 300. $5.50. (1967) (0)
Augustine’s Early Theology of Image: A Study in the Development of Pro-Nicene Theology. By Gerald P. Boersma. (2016) (0)
Books Received (1978) (0)
Augustine Deformed: Atheist ‘Freedoms’ (2014) (0)
A. A. Long, Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans; Sceptics . London: Duckworth, 1974. Pp. x + 262. £4·95. (1975) (0)
Augustine (review) (2008) (0)
Plotinus and the Value of the Human Person (1978) (0)
Augustine’sPersonae: Theology, Metaphysics, History (2019) (0)
Ambrose's Patriarchs: Ethics for the Common Man: Marcia L. Colish, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 201 pp. $15.00 (2006) (0)
Author’s Note (1978) (0)
Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics, by G.E.M.Anscombe (edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally) (2010) (0)
Augustine on War and Military Service by Phillip Wynn (review) (2015) (0)
Letter from the CHR editor to Pope Francis regarding the journal’s centennial issue 2 and response of the Holy Father (2015) (0)
A Case of Spiritual Fornication: Casting Pears to Real Swine (2017) (0)
The Origin of the Soul in St. Augustine’s Later Works (1989) (0)
What is Truth?: The human race, or how could women be created in the image and likeness of God? (2008) (0)
Augustine Deformed: ‘Will’ and Freedom, Mind and Love (2014) (0)
Augustine Deformed: Whither Lady Philosophy (2014) (0)
Augustine Deformed: Introduction: A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (2014) (0)
Toward a Synthesis: Thomas Aquinas (2019) (0)
What is Truth?: The origin and early development of episcopacy at Rome (2008) (0)
On the independence of Matthew and Mark: Problems and assumptions (1978) (0)
The Way to an Absolute Nihilism (2019) (0)
A NEW PERSPECTIVE (1982) (0)
From Dreamland “Humanism” to Christian Political Reality, or From Nusquama to Utopia (2016) (0)
Real Ethics: Ethics and ideology (2001) (0)
Foucault and Augustine: Reconsidering Power and Love By J. Joyce Schuld Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. 299 pp. $25.00 (2004) (0)
Truth and Faith in Ethics – Edited by Hayden Ramsay (2012) (0)
Notes on Anselm's Aims in the Proslogion (1973) (0)
Augustine: Augustine and Julian: aspects of the debate about sexual concupiscentia (1994) (0)
What is Truth?: Bibliography (2008) (0)
NOTES TO INTRODUCTION (1982) (0)
What is Truth?: Introduction: Partial and universal truth (2008) (0)
A NOTE ON THE MEMORIA APOSTOLORUM (1968) (0)
Rethinking Plato and Platonism (1990) (0)
The Catholic Church in “modern” and “post-modern” culture (2008) (0)
On the independence of Matthew and Mark: Vocabulary and sequence: Matthew's version of Mk 2:23 - 6:13 (1978) (0)
Philosophers and Sophists: Then and Now (2014) (0)
Real Ethics: Division and its remedies (2001) (0)
Augustine: Works of Augustine (1994) (0)
A turning point in the tradition (Mt 14:1, Mk 6:14, Lk 9:7) (1978) (0)
Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine: A Stoic–Platonic Synthesis. By Sarah Catherine Byers. (2013) (0)
Confusion in the West (2022) (0)
On the independence of Matthew and Mark: From Caesarea Philippi to the Burial of Jesus (1978) (0)
SOCIETY AND THE STATE (1982) (0)
Must Morality be Grounded on God? (2015) (0)
Personalism, Phenomenology, Edith Stein (2019) (0)
What is Truth?: Caesaropapism, theocracy or neo-Augustinian politics? (2008) (0)
Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of lamblichus (review) (1997) (0)
Is Plotinus' Body too Etherialized (1993) (0)
L. Karfíková, Grace and the Will according to Augustine, translated by M. Janebová (2013) (0)
(R. T.) Wallis Neoplatonism . (Classical life and letters.) London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. 1972. Pp. xi + 212. 1 plate. 1 map. £3·25. (1973) (0)
A Guide for the Perplexed or How to Present or Pervert the History of Philosophy (2021) (0)
Augustine Deformed: Bibliography (2014) (0)
Between Two Worlds: Duns Scotus (2019) (0)
Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity by James Miller (review) (2014) (0)
Augustine: Traducianism, creationism and the transmission of original sin (1994) (0)
Rules and applications (2001) (0)
Freedom and Nature among the Greeks (2007) (0)

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