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