Christopher C. Raymond
Christopher C. Raymond received his AB in Philosophy from Brown University and his PhD in Philosophy from The University of Texas at Austin through the Joint Classics-Philosophy Graduate Program in Ancient Philosophy. His research focuses on Plato, Aristotle, and their literary and philosophical predecessors; he also has interests in 19th-century European philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, and Platonic reception. His paper “Shame and Virtue in Aristotle” (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. 53) was selected by The Philosopher’s Annual as “one of the ten best articles published in philosophy” in 2017. Current projects (with Christopher Moore, Penn State) include Critias of Athens: Introduction, Texts, Translations, and Commentary for Oxford University Press and new translations of Plato’s Protagoras and Laches for Hackett Publishing.
Departments and Programs
Courses
CLCS 101/GRST 101 – Civilization in Question
PHIL 101 – History of Western Philosophy: Ancient
PHIL 103 – History of Western Philosophy: Medieval
PHIL 104 – Tragedy and Philosophy: Ancient and Modern Perspectives (FYWS)
PHIL 173 – What Is College For? (FYWS)
PHIL 205 – Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy
PHIL 294 – Film and Philosophy: Ingmar Bergman (INT)
PHIL 320 – Plato's Republic and various topics in the history of philosophy
Selected Publications
Books
- Plato: Charmides. Translated, with Introduction, Notes, and Analysis (with Christopher Moore). Hackett Publishing, 2019.
Articles and book chapters
- “Greeks and Barbarians in Republic 5.” In Crafting Race in Plato and Aristotle, edited by Patricia Marechal and John D. Proios, 121–48. Oxford University Press, 2026.
- “The Pindar Allusion at Theaetetus 173e.” Mnemosyne 78, no. 7 (2025): 1213–36.
- “The Sophists in the History of Philosophy.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Sophists, edited by Joshua Billings and Christopher Moore, 403–37. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- “Critias of Athens” (with Christopher Moore). In Oxford Bibliographies in Classics, edited by Ruth Scodel. Oxford University Press, July 31, 2019.
- “Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Socrates.” In Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates, edited by Christopher Moore, 837–80. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- “Aidôs in Plato’s Charmides.” Ancient Philosophy 38, no. 1 (2018): 23–46.
- “Shame and Virtue in Aristotle.” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 53 (2017): 111–62. *Selected by The Philosopher’s Annual as “one of the ten best articles published in philosophy” in 2017.
- “Nietzsche on Tragedy and Morality.” In Nietzsche on Art and Life, edited by Daniel Came, 57–79. Oxford University Press, 2014.
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