Stephen G Salkever
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1049568 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen G Salkever |
| NOMBRES | Stephen G |
| APELLIDO | Salkever |
| FIRMA | SALKEVER S G |
| AFILIACIONES | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Aristotelian Phronêsis, the Discourse of Human Rights, and Contemporary Global Practice
This essay outlines some fundamental differences between the evaluative and explanatory language of Aristotelian practical reason based on his empirical psychological theory of human development, on the one hand, and the late 20th and 21st century discourse of human rights based on a NeoKantian transcendent principle of universal human dignity on the other. To what extent are these two types of political discourse compatible in today’s globalizin…
Reading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Politics as a Single Course of Lectures
The Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics present themselves to us as a single course of lectures, the former anticipating the latter, the latter expanding on and referring back to the former. But it is still too often the case that the two texts are taught and studied as if they were utterly separate treatises, concerned with two different subject matters. Aristotle tells us in the first book of the Ethics (1.2, 1094a-b) that his subject matter in…
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of classics, political science, and philosophy, the Companion brings these texts to life by analysing what they have to tell us about the problems of poli…
Teaching the Questions
It is widely acknowledged that the style of Plato's political philosophizing is radically different from the systems and doctrines approach established by Hobbes and confirmed and redirected by Kant. But what about Aristotle? Does he intend to produce systematic political theory in sharp contrast to Plato's question-centered dialectics? This essay argues that Aristotle's political science is equally as dialogical as Plato's. Taken together, the N…
Whose Prayer
Most modern readers of Aristotle's Politics assume that the regime “according to prayer” ( kat'euch ê n) in Book 7 is the culmination of the work as a whole, a utopia designed to guide political reform. I say no. This polis is not an ideal to be applied to practice, but one aspiration among several to be seriously examined and consulted by political people as they deliberate about what to do in particular situations. The prayer presented in chapt…
International Relations and Politics
Sociobiology and Monotony
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Comparative Political Philosophy and Liberal Education
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Socrates' Aspasian Oration
Plato'sMenexenusis overlooked, perhaps because of the difficulty of gauging its irony. In it, Socrates recites a funeral oration he says he learned from Aspasia, describing events that occurred after the deaths of both Socrates and Pericles' mistress. But the dialogue's ironic complexity is one reason it is a central part of Plato's political philosophy. In both style and substance,Menexenusrejects the heroic account of Athenian democracy propose…
Aristotle's Social Science
Books in Review
Tragedy. Theory and Political Education
Final Causes and Instant Cases
I strongly agree with what I take to be Arnhart's basic claims: that Aristotle's teleological biology is plausible in the light of what we now think about good scientific practice, and that it provides a kind of basis or vocabulary for moral and practical deliberation that is lacking in nonteleological or reductionist biology. Arnhart's defense of these claims is important both because he suggests a more expansive notion of what counts as biologi…
Women, Soldiers, Citizens
Considering the status of women in the writings of Plato and Aristotle, Professor Salkever sees a complex attempt, on their part, to oppose the Greek tendency to equate virility and virtue. This tendency, he says, is shared by many modern republican critics of liberal individualism. Far from exalting the claims of the polls, Plato and Aristotle resist the temptation to dichotomize public and private life and thus present the outlines of an unders…
Books in Review
Law, Legislation and Liberty
II. Aristotle's Social Science
HILE SOCIAL SCIENCE is a distinctly modern enterprise, the systematic study of human affairs is not. My discussion of Aristotle focuses on what he calls politike, or the science of the polis. ' Politike is clearly the equivalent of social science with respect to the subject matter it embraces; Aristotle uses the term throughout the Politics and the Ethics to refer to the consideration of topics which we would assign to political science, anthropo…
"Cool Reflexion" and the Criticism of Values
Is the fact/value distinction incompatible with the possibility of a social science which is both objective and evaluative (or normative)? Does support of the latter require rejection of the former and vice versa? This article presents an indirect argument against the incompatibility of the fact/value distinction and an objectively evaluative social science. My procedure is to show that David Hume, whose is/ought distinction is the locus classicu…
Rousseau & the Concept of Happiness
Although Rousseau's thought has had a vast influence on political ideas and diverse political movements, the seeming absence of a coherent and consistent philosophy has puzzled his interpreters. Some have tried to get at the bottom of apparent inconsistencies in their search for the unity underlying his thought. This article is a sympathetic and plausible interpretation of Rousseau's understanding of happiness as the unifying basis of his moral a…
Interpreting Rousseau's Paradoxes
IT IS GENERALLY AGREED that Jean-Jacques Rousseau has provided us with a set of brilliant discussions of some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, and especially of moral and political philosophy. But it is often claimed that Rousseau's discussions are not wholly satisfactory because of their radically ambiguous, or even paradoxical or self-contradictory character. This charge has often been made by writers unfriendly to Rousseau, beginning…
Freedom, Participation, and Happiness
Virtue, Obligation and Politics
This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the terms "virtue," "obligation," and "politics," a project suggested by similar analyses currently underway in the field of ethics. The essence of the study is the contrast between politics understood in terms of virtue (as by Plato, Aristotle, and, in a way, Rousseau) and politics understood in terms of obligation (as by Hobbes, Locke, John Rawls and, in a way, Rousseau). The paper argues that obliga…
II. Aristotle's Social Science
HILE SOCIAL SCIENCE is a distinctly modern enterprise, the systematic study of human affairs is not. My discussion of Aristotle focuses on what he calls politike, or the science of the polis. ' Politike is clearly the equivalent of social science with respect to the subject matter it embraces; Aristotle uses the term throughout the Politics and the Ethics to refer to the consideration of topics which we would assign to political science, anthropo…
Socrates' Aspasian Oration
Plato'sMenexenusis overlooked, perhaps because of the difficulty of gauging its irony. In it, Socrates recites a funeral oration he says he learned from Aspasia, describing events that occurred after the deaths of both Socrates and Pericles' mistress. But the dialogue's ironic complexity is one reason it is a central part of Plato's political philosophy. In both style and substance,Menexenusrejects the heroic account of Athenian democracy propose…
Virtue, Obligation and Politics
This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the terms "virtue," "obligation," and "politics," a project suggested by similar analyses currently underway in the field of ethics. The essence of the study is the contrast between politics understood in terms of virtue (as by Plato, Aristotle, and, in a way, Rousseau) and politics understood in terms of obligation (as by Hobbes, Locke, John Rawls and, in a way, Rousseau). The paper argues that obliga…
Teaching the Questions
It is widely acknowledged that the style of Plato's political philosophizing is radically different from the systems and doctrines approach established by Hobbes and confirmed and redirected by Kant. But what about Aristotle? Does he intend to produce systematic political theory in sharp contrast to Plato's question-centered dialectics? This essay argues that Aristotle's political science is equally as dialogical as Plato's. Taken together, the N…
Women, Soldiers, Citizens
Considering the status of women in the writings of Plato and Aristotle, Professor Salkever sees a complex attempt, on their part, to oppose the Greek tendency to equate virility and virtue. This tendency, he says, is shared by many modern republican critics of liberal individualism. Far from exalting the claims of the polls, Plato and Aristotle resist the temptation to dichotomize public and private life and thus present the outlines of an unders…
Whose Prayer
Most modern readers of Aristotle's Politics assume that the regime “according to prayer” ( kat'euch ê n) in Book 7 is the culmination of the work as a whole, a utopia designed to guide political reform. I say no. This polis is not an ideal to be applied to practice, but one aspiration among several to be seriously examined and consulted by political people as they deliberate about what to do in particular situations. The prayer presented in chapt…
"Cool Reflexion" and the Criticism of Values
Is the fact/value distinction incompatible with the possibility of a social science which is both objective and evaluative (or normative)? Does support of the latter require rejection of the former and vice versa? This article presents an indirect argument against the incompatibility of the fact/value distinction and an objectively evaluative social science. My procedure is to show that David Hume, whose is/ought distinction is the locus classicu…
Rousseau & the Concept of Happiness
Although Rousseau's thought has had a vast influence on political ideas and diverse political movements, the seeming absence of a coherent and consistent philosophy has puzzled his interpreters. Some have tried to get at the bottom of apparent inconsistencies in their search for the unity underlying his thought. This article is a sympathetic and plausible interpretation of Rousseau's understanding of happiness as the unifying basis of his moral a…
Freedom, Participation, and Happiness
Sociobiology and Monotony
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Comparative Political Philosophy and Liberal Education
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Virtue, Obligation and Politics
This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the terms "virtue," "obligation," and "politics," a project suggested by similar analyses currently underway in the field of ethics. The essence of the study is the contrast between politics understood in terms of virtue (as by Plato, Aristotle, and, in a way, Rousseau) and politics understood in terms of obligation (as by Hobbes, Locke, John Rawls and, in a way, Rousseau). The paper argues that obliga…
Interpreting Rousseau's Paradoxes
IT IS GENERALLY AGREED that Jean-Jacques Rousseau has provided us with a set of brilliant discussions of some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, and especially of moral and political philosophy. But it is often claimed that Rousseau's discussions are not wholly satisfactory because of their radically ambiguous, or even paradoxical or self-contradictory character. This charge has often been made by writers unfriendly to Rousseau, beginning…
Freedom, Participation, and Happiness
Rousseau & the Concept of Happiness
Although Rousseau's thought has had a vast influence on political ideas and diverse political movements, the seeming absence of a coherent and consistent philosophy has puzzled his interpreters. Some have tried to get at the bottom of apparent inconsistencies in their search for the unity underlying his thought. This article is a sympathetic and plausible interpretation of Rousseau's understanding of happiness as the unifying basis of his moral a…
"Cool Reflexion" and the Criticism of Values
Is the fact/value distinction incompatible with the possibility of a social science which is both objective and evaluative (or normative)? Does support of the latter require rejection of the former and vice versa? This article presents an indirect argument against the incompatibility of the fact/value distinction and an objectively evaluative social science. My procedure is to show that David Hume, whose is/ought distinction is the locus classicu…
Law, Legislation and Liberty
II. Aristotle's Social Science
HILE SOCIAL SCIENCE is a distinctly modern enterprise, the systematic study of human affairs is not. My discussion of Aristotle focuses on what he calls politike, or the science of the polis. ' Politike is clearly the equivalent of social science with respect to the subject matter it embraces; Aristotle uses the term throughout the Politics and the Ethics to refer to the consideration of topics which we would assign to political science, anthropo…
Books in Review
Women, Soldiers, Citizens
Considering the status of women in the writings of Plato and Aristotle, Professor Salkever sees a complex attempt, on their part, to oppose the Greek tendency to equate virility and virtue. This tendency, he says, is shared by many modern republican critics of liberal individualism. Far from exalting the claims of the polls, Plato and Aristotle resist the temptation to dichotomize public and private life and thus present the outlines of an unders…
Final Causes and Instant Cases
I strongly agree with what I take to be Arnhart's basic claims: that Aristotle's teleological biology is plausible in the light of what we now think about good scientific practice, and that it provides a kind of basis or vocabulary for moral and practical deliberation that is lacking in nonteleological or reductionist biology. Arnhart's defense of these claims is important both because he suggests a more expansive notion of what counts as biologi…
Aristotle's Social Science
Books in Review
Tragedy. Theory and Political Education
Socrates' Aspasian Oration
Plato'sMenexenusis overlooked, perhaps because of the difficulty of gauging its irony. In it, Socrates recites a funeral oration he says he learned from Aspasia, describing events that occurred after the deaths of both Socrates and Pericles' mistress. But the dialogue's ironic complexity is one reason it is a central part of Plato's political philosophy. In both style and substance,Menexenusrejects the heroic account of Athenian democracy propose…
Comparative Political Philosophy and Liberal Education
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Sociobiology and Monotony
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
International Relations and Politics
Teaching the Questions
It is widely acknowledged that the style of Plato's political philosophizing is radically different from the systems and doctrines approach established by Hobbes and confirmed and redirected by Kant. But what about Aristotle? Does he intend to produce systematic political theory in sharp contrast to Plato's question-centered dialectics? This essay argues that Aristotle's political science is equally as dialogical as Plato's. Taken together, the N…
Whose Prayer
Most modern readers of Aristotle's Politics assume that the regime “according to prayer” ( kat'euch ê n) in Book 7 is the culmination of the work as a whole, a utopia designed to guide political reform. I say no. This polis is not an ideal to be applied to practice, but one aspiration among several to be seriously examined and consulted by political people as they deliberate about what to do in particular situations. The prayer presented in chapt…
Reading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Politics as a Single Course of Lectures
The Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics present themselves to us as a single course of lectures, the former anticipating the latter, the latter expanding on and referring back to the former. But it is still too often the case that the two texts are taught and studied as if they were utterly separate treatises, concerned with two different subject matters. Aristotle tells us in the first book of the Ethics (1.2, 1094a-b) that his subject matter in…
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of classics, political science, and philosophy, the Companion brings these texts to life by analysing what they have to tell us about the problems of poli…
Aristotelian Phronêsis, the Discourse of Human Rights, and Contemporary Global Practice
This essay outlines some fundamental differences between the evaluative and explanatory language of Aristotelian practical reason based on his empirical psychological theory of human development, on the one hand, and the late 20th and 21st century discourse of human rights based on a NeoKantian transcendent principle of universal human dignity on the other. To what extent are these two types of political discourse compatible in today’s globalizin…
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