Lawrence J Jost

Professor | Taft Center Fellow | Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Marx
Philosophy - Tenure-Track Faculty
259A McMicken Hall
513-556-6326
larry.jost@uc.edu

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Education

B.A., St. Joan Fisher College, Rochester, N.Y., 1966 (Philosophy (with high honors)).

M.A., University of Chicago, 1967 (Philosophy).

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1973.

Research Interests

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.

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