Eugene Garver
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1429031 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eugene Garver |
| NOMBRES | Eugene |
| APELLIDO | Garver |
| FIRMA | GARVER E |
| AFILIACIONES | College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5234-410X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Spinoza's Democratic Imagination
Spinoza is the great philosopher of the imagination and the first great philosopher of democracy. Rather than seeing democracy as a form of government that has overcome the need for imagination and symbols, he shows in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus that an enlightened state depends on three myths: the myth of the sovereignty of the people so as to reconcile democracy as rule by the people with each individual living as he or she wants to liv…
Deliberative Rhetoric and Ethical Deliberation
Central to Aristotle’s Ethics is the virtue of phronēsis, a good condition of the rational part of the soul that determines the means to ends set by the ethical virtues. Central to the Rhetoric is the art of presenting persuasive deliberative arguments about how to secure the ends set by the audience and its constitution. What is the relation between the art and the virtue of deliberation? Rhetorical facility can be a deceptive facsimile of virtu…
Plato’s Crito On the Nature of Persuasion and Obedience
The Crito dramatizes the impossibility, and the indispensability, of persuasion sby locating it between two extremes, Socrates and the Laws, the truths of philosophy and the force of politics. The question is whether those two limits are themselves inside or outside rhetoric. Can philosophy persuade, ormust it always be an alternative sto persuasion? Socrates insists on ignoring the opinion, and the power, of the many, and so the Laws have to sho…
Isocrates and Civic Education
Colloquium 2
Spinoza on Constitutional Interpretation
This paper projects Spinoza’s discussion of the method of scriptural interpretation onto contemporary questions of Constitutional interpretation. Spinoza’s discussion lets us deliberate about the relations between the authority of texts and the authority of readers and interpreters, and the compatibility of institutional structures of interpretation which require obedience with the freedom of thought necessary for salvation and for individual sel…
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along
Spinoza presents a picture of the good human life in which being rational and being reasonable or sociable are mutually supporting: the philosopher makes the best citizen, and citizenship is the best route to philosophy and adequate ideas. Crucial to this mutual implication are the roles of religion and politics in promoting obedience. It is through obedience that people can become “of one mind and one body” in the absence of adequate ideas, thro…
The Ten Commandments
Cases concerning posting the Ten Commandments in public places raise issues about how a culture and its legal organs can confront powerful symbols which convey different meanings to different people. Courts cannot do very well in facing issues of plural meaning. One sign of the inevitable failure of their attempts is the way everyone involved in adjudication, from the legislature to the Supreme Court, makes assertions that are simply conclusory b…
Factions and the Paradox of Aristotelian Practical Science
Politics V presents preserving and destroying the constitution as exhaustive alternatives, leaving no apparent room for improving the constitution. Aristotle claims that ‘if we know the causes by which constitutions are destroyed we also know the causes by which they are preserved; for opposites create opposites, and destruction is the opposite of security’ (V.8.1307b26–29). The first seven chapters present the causes by which constitutions are d…
Aristotle Politics Books V and VI
Narrative, Rhetorical Argument, and Ethical Authority
The Justice of Politics iii and the Incompleteness of the Normative
"Aristotle's "Rhetoric
Aristotle's Natural Slaves
Aristotle's Natural Slaves: Incomplete Praxeis and Incomplete Human Beings EUGENE GARVER 1. IT IS DIFFICULT tO reconstruct Aristotle's argument for slavery and natural slaves because it seems a paradigm case of a great mind defending the indefensible .' I think, though, that it is possible to get some distance on the subject, so that examining the arguments on slavery is no more difficult than trying to understand his arguments against inertia or…
Rhetoric, Prudence and Skepticism in the Renaissance
Paradigms and Princes
The Arts of the Practical
Towards the beginning of Plato's Protagoras, Socrates asks Protagoras to account for the evident differences between political and scientific problems and between politicians and scientists. Socrates wonders why people turn to for questions about ship-building and architecture, while everyone has an equal voice on whether to go to war; he wonders why, in matters calling for expertise, any speaker not an expert is laughed at and shouted down, whil…
Aristotle's Genealogy of Morals
The subject of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is desires and their ends, and at the center of the different relations between desires and ends stands the mysterious idea of an action being its own end. I propose to clarify that idea by an account which proceeds along quite different lines from the argument of the Ethics and which uses a decidedly un-Aristotelean vocabulary, hoping that such changes will make intelligible an otherwise perplexing i…
The Meaning of ΘΡΑΣΟΣ in Aristotle's Ethics
Deliberative Rhetoric and Ethical Deliberation
Central to Aristotle’s Ethics is the virtue of phronēsis, a good condition of the rational part of the soul that determines the means to ends set by the ethical virtues. Central to the Rhetoric is the art of presenting persuasive deliberative arguments about how to secure the ends set by the audience and its constitution. What is the relation between the art and the virtue of deliberation? Rhetorical facility can be a deceptive facsimile of virtu…
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along
Spinoza presents a picture of the good human life in which being rational and being reasonable or sociable are mutually supporting: the philosopher makes the best citizen, and citizenship is the best route to philosophy and adequate ideas. Crucial to this mutual implication are the roles of religion and politics in promoting obedience. It is through obedience that people can become “of one mind and one body” in the absence of adequate ideas, thro…
Factions and the Paradox of Aristotelian Practical Science
Politics V presents preserving and destroying the constitution as exhaustive alternatives, leaving no apparent room for improving the constitution. Aristotle claims that ‘if we know the causes by which constitutions are destroyed we also know the causes by which they are preserved; for opposites create opposites, and destruction is the opposite of security’ (V.8.1307b26–29). The first seven chapters present the causes by which constitutions are d…
The Meaning of ΘΡΑΣΟΣ in Aristotle's Ethics
The Arts of the Practical
Towards the beginning of Plato's Protagoras, Socrates asks Protagoras to account for the evident differences between political and scientific problems and between politicians and scientists. Socrates wonders why people turn to for questions about ship-building and architecture, while everyone has an equal voice on whether to go to war; he wonders why, in matters calling for expertise, any speaker not an expert is laughed at and shouted down, whil…
Aristotle's Genealogy of Morals
The subject of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is desires and their ends, and at the center of the different relations between desires and ends stands the mysterious idea of an action being its own end. I propose to clarify that idea by an account which proceeds along quite different lines from the argument of the Ethics and which uses a decidedly un-Aristotelean vocabulary, hoping that such changes will make intelligible an otherwise perplexing i…
Rhetoric, Prudence and Skepticism in the Renaissance
Paradigms and Princes
Aristotle's Natural Slaves
Aristotle's Natural Slaves: Incomplete Praxeis and Incomplete Human Beings EUGENE GARVER 1. IT IS DIFFICULT tO reconstruct Aristotle's argument for slavery and natural slaves because it seems a paradigm case of a great mind defending the indefensible .' I think, though, that it is possible to get some distance on the subject, so that examining the arguments on slavery is no more difficult than trying to understand his arguments against inertia or…
"Aristotle's "Rhetoric
The Justice of Politics iii and the Incompleteness of the Normative
Narrative, Rhetorical Argument, and Ethical Authority
Aristotle Politics Books V and VI
Factions and the Paradox of Aristotelian Practical Science
Politics V presents preserving and destroying the constitution as exhaustive alternatives, leaving no apparent room for improving the constitution. Aristotle claims that ‘if we know the causes by which constitutions are destroyed we also know the causes by which they are preserved; for opposites create opposites, and destruction is the opposite of security’ (V.8.1307b26–29). The first seven chapters present the causes by which constitutions are d…
The Ten Commandments
Cases concerning posting the Ten Commandments in public places raise issues about how a culture and its legal organs can confront powerful symbols which convey different meanings to different people. Courts cannot do very well in facing issues of plural meaning. One sign of the inevitable failure of their attempts is the way everyone involved in adjudication, from the legislature to the Supreme Court, makes assertions that are simply conclusory b…
Isocrates and Civic Education
Colloquium 2
Spinoza on Constitutional Interpretation
This paper projects Spinoza’s discussion of the method of scriptural interpretation onto contemporary questions of Constitutional interpretation. Spinoza’s discussion lets us deliberate about the relations between the authority of texts and the authority of readers and interpreters, and the compatibility of institutional structures of interpretation which require obedience with the freedom of thought necessary for salvation and for individual sel…
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along
Spinoza presents a picture of the good human life in which being rational and being reasonable or sociable are mutually supporting: the philosopher makes the best citizen, and citizenship is the best route to philosophy and adequate ideas. Crucial to this mutual implication are the roles of religion and politics in promoting obedience. It is through obedience that people can become “of one mind and one body” in the absence of adequate ideas, thro…
Plato’s Crito On the Nature of Persuasion and Obedience
The Crito dramatizes the impossibility, and the indispensability, of persuasion sby locating it between two extremes, Socrates and the Laws, the truths of philosophy and the force of politics. The question is whether those two limits are themselves inside or outside rhetoric. Can philosophy persuade, ormust it always be an alternative sto persuasion? Socrates insists on ignoring the opinion, and the power, of the many, and so the Laws have to sho…
Deliberative Rhetoric and Ethical Deliberation
Central to Aristotle’s Ethics is the virtue of phronēsis, a good condition of the rational part of the soul that determines the means to ends set by the ethical virtues. Central to the Rhetoric is the art of presenting persuasive deliberative arguments about how to secure the ends set by the audience and its constitution. What is the relation between the art and the virtue of deliberation? Rhetorical facility can be a deceptive facsimile of virtu…
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Spinoza's Democratic Imagination
Spinoza is the great philosopher of the imagination and the first great philosopher of democracy. Rather than seeing democracy as a form of government that has overcome the need for imagination and symbols, he shows in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus that an enlightened state depends on three myths: the myth of the sovereignty of the people so as to reconcile democracy as rule by the people with each individual living as he or she wants to liv…
Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric
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