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A Pedagogy Of Beauty: Teaching Plato's Republic Through Mathematics And Music, Jeremy Seth Geddert

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Review Of Aristotle On The Concept Of Shared Life By Sara Brill, Daniel P. Maher

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Hobbes, Aristotle, And The Politics Of Metaphysics, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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This is a book review of Hobbes's Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy by Devin Stauffer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).

St. Thomas Aquinas And The Third Hellenization Period, Demetri Kantarelis

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In this paper, I assert that currently the world has been experiencing the Third Hellenization Period that started with the Italian Renaissance, instigated by the teachings of the theologian and philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 CE). Unlike philosophers in previous periods (First and Second Hellenization as well as Medieval), St. Thomas preached that Truth is a function of both Natural Revelation and Supernatural Revelation. This resulted in, simultaneously, Christianizing Aristotle (St. Thomas’ most referenced philosopher) and Aristotleizing Christianity, thus opening up the doors to human reason that had been muted during the Medieval centuries.

I also assert that the basic …

Review Of Thomas Hobbes And The Natural Law By Kody Cooper, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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Thomas Hobbes On The Aristocracy Of Passion, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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Review Of Writing Conscience And The Nation In Revolutionary England By Giuseppina Iacono Lobo, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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Review Of Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives On The Future, Daniel P. Maher

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New Pitchforks And Furtive Nature, Daniel P. Maher

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“New Ideas and Innovations” are constituted in relation to the status quo: what had been new becomes old when something yet newer appears. This truism draws attention to the necessity of thinking about the new in relation to what came before. In reproductive ethics, this means, in part, that mitochondrial donation, for example, must be understood in reference to “old” IVF. It also means that we must understand this and every other technique for manipulating, facilitating, or preventing conception in relation to the natural way or ways in which human beings come to be. The temporal and conceptual priority of …

Sheathing The Sword: Augustine And The Good Judge, Veronica Roberts Ogle

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In this article, I offer a reading of City of God 19.6 that is consonant with Augustine’s message to real judges. Often read as a suggestion that torture and execution are judicially necessary, I argue that 19.6 actually calls such necessities into question, though this is not its primary purpose; first and foremost, 19.6 is an indictment of Stoic apatheia. Situating 19.6 within Augustine’s larger polemic against the Stoics, I find that it presents the Stoic judge as a man who lacks fellow feeling, and therefore, has only a parodic happiness, costly to himself and those judges. A new …

Too Subtle To Satisfy Many: Was Grotius's Teleology Of Punishment Predestined To Fail?, Jeremy Seth Geddert

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Most readers believe Grotius failed to refute Socinus in De satisfactione. This paper argues that Grotius's failure was one of reception rather than argument. It is possible to read De satisfactione as Grotius adverted: a genuine (if subtle) concept of satisfaction, and a defence of the (small-c) catholic faith. Grotius does reject a necessitarian identical satisfaction, in which a repayment is equal to a debt, but like Aquinas, he embraces a teleological equivalent satisfaction, in which a punishment fits a crime. Yet Grotius’s catholic theory was predestined not to persuade a wartime Continental audience whose centre had not held …

Hugo Grotius' Modern Civil Religion: Source Of Europe's Stoic Liberalism?, Jeremy Seth Geddert

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Review Of The Philosopher's English King: Shakespeare's Henriad As Political Philosophy By Leon Harold Craig, Bernard J. Dobski

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A Naturally Disastrous War: Nature, Politics, And Historiography In Thucydides' History, Bernard J. Dobski

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Review Of Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea Of A Critique Of Pure Reason By J. Colin Mcquillan, Samuel A. Stoner

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The Form Of Politics: Aristotle And Plato On Friendship By John Von Heyking, Nalin Ranasinghe

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Heyking’s ascent from Aristotle to Plato implies that something Platonic was lost in Aristotle’s accounts of friendship and politics. Plato’s views on love and soul turn out to have more in common with early Christianity. Stressing differences between eros and thumos, using Voegelin’s categories to discuss the Platonic Good, and expanding on Heyking’s use of Hermes, I show how tragic culture and true politics can be further enhanced by refining erotic friendship, repudiating Augustinian misanthropy, positing minimum doctrines about soul and city, and basing reason on Hermes rather than Apollo.

Socrates' Apology And Plato's Poetry: A Speculative Exegesis, Nalin Ranasinghe

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Simon Stevin's Vita Politica: Pre-Provisional Morality?, Daniel P. Maher

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The Dutch mathematician and engineer Simon Stevin (1548–1620) wrote a political handbook, Vita Politica (1590), in which he provided essential guidance for civic life amid the religious and political turbulence of the Eighty Years War. Descartes was certainly influenced by Stevin in mathematics, and this paper examines the possibility that some aspects of Stevin’s political thought influenced Descartes in his formulation of the provisional morality in the Discourse on Method. The evidence is circumstantial, but the intellectual affinity between Stevin and Descartes is striking nonetheless. In any case, given Stevin’s importance in the emergence of the mathematical science of …

Human Action In Philosophy And Poetry, Daniel P. Maher

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The philosophical effort to see and say the truth about human agents and human action seems very different from the poetic effort to delight us with actors who only pretend to do what we see them do. These two modes of thinking present action differently, and I approach this difference through pedagogical considerations associated with teaching ethics in philosophy classes. Students rightly sense a difference between the philosophical appreciation of human beings as practical and the character of real human action as acted. In this paper, I argue that part of this distance can be bridged by considering the poetic …

Re-Discovering An Older Sovereignty, Jeremy Seth Geddert

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Review of Sovereignty: Moral and Historical Perspectives by James Turner Johnson. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014.

Response To Susan Meld Shell, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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Natural Rights And History: Hugo Grotius's Modern Translation Of Aristotle, Jeremy Seth Geddert

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Review Of On Sovereignty And Other Political Delusions By Joan Cocks And Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism By Sharon Krause, Bernard J. Dobski

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Economics As A Force Of Nature In Aristotle's Politics: An Antireductionist View, Molly Brigid Mcgrath

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The Poverty Of "Corruption": On Reframing The Debate On Money In Politics, Molly Brigid Mcgrath, Robert G. Boatright

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Ass, You Like It? Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream As Political Philosophy, Nalin Ranasinghe

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Liberal Education: Transmitting Knowledge Through Texts, Molly Brigid Mcgrath

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Confusions And Disagreements About The Rotten In Politics, Molly Brigid Mcgrath, Robert G. Boatright

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One Civilization Among Many? Academic Reflections On The West And The Rest, Daniel J. Mahoney

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The Incomplete Whole: The Structural Integrity Of Thucydides' History, Bernard J. Dobski

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