The ancient philosophers aimed to turn us away from thinking about particularizing affection justifiable human relations. aim of their protreptic discourses was get readers, who were citizens, sons, and fathers, think lives by putting these relations into question. I show how this conversion works explore its political consequences reading the accounts friendship in Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, th...

Shamik Dasgupta (Nous 50: 379–418, 2016) proposes to tame the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) apply only non-autonomous facts, which are facts that apt for explanation. Call this strategy PSR taming strategy. In a recent paper, Della Rocca (PS 178: 1101–1119, 2020a; The parmenidean ascent, Oxford University Press, 2020b) argues proponents strategy, in attempting formulate restricted versio...