Paul Seaton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3938018 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul Seaton |
| NOMBRES | Paul |
| APELLIDO | Seaton |
| FIRMA | SEATON P |
| AFILIACIONES | Independent Scholar, Wichita, KS, USA |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Battle for Europe’s Soul
The French political philosopher Pierre Manent (b. 1949) has been tracking the European adventure for fifty years. In order to articulate his discoveries, he has coined a number of terms, chief of which are “political form” and “the religion of Humanity”. This essay presents a primer on his thought on the latter, an ersatz humanitarian faith that “is a veil to our eyes and a down comforter to our eyes.” Elevating an abstract idea of human unity, …
Response to Minkov’s “Strauss and Pascal”
Pierre Manent on the Ancient Greeks’ Contributions to “the Western Dynamic
Pierre Manent on the Western Dynamic
Paul & Empire Criticism
The Narrow Passage
A Personal Point of View
During the Cold War, Peter Augustine Lawler was a close student of the great anti-Communist dissidents, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Váçlav Havel. They taught him not only about the nature of Soviet Communism, but about modernity tout court. From both, he learned a positive lesson as well, the reality of the human person. Falsified by modern thought and directly assaulted by communist ideocracy, the truth of the person was the chief positive lesson…
Editor’s Introduction to a Symposium on A Constitution in Full
A Socratic in the Late Modern Democratic City
Pierre Manent opens his study of natural law with an investigation into the dominant opinion concerning justice in the contemporary democratic city. A modern-day Socratic, he traces it to a specifically modern view of human rights and human nature. Employing the Socratic method, he probes their meaning and their limits
Sentire Cum Brownsone
Sentire cum Brownsone provides an exposition of the political philosophy of Orestes Brownson (1803–1876). Negatively, his disagreements with modern social contract theory and its underlying anthropology are laid out, while positively, his key concepts – the unwritten constitution, territorial democracy, and the American Republic – are unpacked. His thinking about the complex relationship between Christianity and America's constitutional order is …
Guest Editors' Introduction
Papal Globalization
Globalization seems ubiquitous today as a complex reality and theme of discussion. In Caritas in veritate (2009), the sole social encyclical of his pontificate, Benedict XVI weighed in on the topic. Wide-ranging in its themes and prescriptions, what was most distinctive about the encyclical was its theological perspective and framework. This essay attempts to lay bare that vision in its characteristic features. Because of its topic and intellectu…
A Socratic on the Elysée
In her chapter on "the clandestine ideology of the time," the French philosopher Chantal Delsol makes her own "Socratic turn" and analyzes a set of dominant opinions on the European scene. She discovers at their root a distinct view of human nature that is a terribly impoverished ideological construct. She thus points to an urgent need for her contemporaries to reconsider democracy's core anthropological tenets of human equality and freedom. This…
Nation, democracy, and french political theory
Wrestling with Gods and Men
Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham
Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham, Thomas L. Pangle, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. 263 In the beginning was Leo Strauss with his trailblazing Platonizing exegeses of Genesis, “On the Interpretation of Genesis” and “Jerusalem and Athens.” Strauss begat many strong and independent minds who commented on the text. Hillel Fradkin and Robert Sacks were two of the earliest, as was Leon Kass. Kass recently pub…
Fortunate Powerlessness
(2005). 'Fortunate Powerlessness': Pierre Manent on Montesquieu's Constitutional System of Modern Liberty. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 79-87
The Perils of Identity Politics
Three leading French political thinkers reflect on why modern democracies tend to forget their own natures, even to the point of encouraging an assertive "identitarianism" that could undermine liberal democracy itself
The Wars of the Twentieth Century
Liberation from the Weberian Iron Cage
(2002). Liberation from the Weberian Iron Cage: Pierre Manent on Max Weber. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 165-172
Reading Tocqueville Today
(2001). Reading Tocqueville Today. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 227-233
Books in review
Democratic Man, Aristocratic Man, and Man Simply. Some Remarks on an Equivocation in Tocqueville's Thought
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul SeatonPierre Manent, one of France's leading political philosophers, is a professor of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Daniel J. Mahoney is an associate professor of politics at Assumption College, and Paul Seaton is a doctoral candidate in political science at Fordham University. The translators are coeditors of Modern Liberty and Its Discontents: Selected Writ…
Democracy Without Nations
Democracy without Nations? Pierre Manent (bio) If we try to characterize the contemporary political world, our first observation will no doubt be the victory of democracy, with 1945 and 1989 marking the dates of the collapse (in quite different ways) of the two most terrible enemies that democracy faced in our century. This does not mean that democracy is everywhere peacefully established, nor that where it is established it may not encounter con…
Democracy Without Nations
Democracy without Nations? Pierre Manent (bio) If we try to characterize the contemporary political world, our first observation will no doubt be the victory of democracy, with 1945 and 1989 marking the dates of the collapse (in quite different ways) of the two most terrible enemies that democracy faced in our century. This does not mean that democracy is everywhere peacefully established, nor that where it is established it may not encounter con…
Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham
Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham, Thomas L. Pangle, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. 263 In the beginning was Leo Strauss with his trailblazing Platonizing exegeses of Genesis, “On the Interpretation of Genesis” and “Jerusalem and Athens.” Strauss begat many strong and independent minds who commented on the text. Hillel Fradkin and Robert Sacks were two of the earliest, as was Leon Kass. Kass recently pub…
Democratic Man, Aristocratic Man, and Man Simply. Some Remarks on an Equivocation in Tocqueville's Thought
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul SeatonPierre Manent, one of France's leading political philosophers, is a professor of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Daniel J. Mahoney is an associate professor of politics at Assumption College, and Paul Seaton is a doctoral candidate in political science at Fordham University. The translators are coeditors of Modern Liberty and Its Discontents: Selected Writ…
Democracy Without Nations
Democracy without Nations? Pierre Manent (bio) If we try to characterize the contemporary political world, our first observation will no doubt be the victory of democracy, with 1945 and 1989 marking the dates of the collapse (in quite different ways) of the two most terrible enemies that democracy faced in our century. This does not mean that democracy is everywhere peacefully established, nor that where it is established it may not encounter con…
Democratic Man, Aristocratic Man, and Man Simply. Some Remarks on an Equivocation in Tocqueville's Thought
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul SeatonPierre Manent, one of France's leading political philosophers, is a professor of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Daniel J. Mahoney is an associate professor of politics at Assumption College, and Paul Seaton is a doctoral candidate in political science at Fordham University. The translators are coeditors of Modern Liberty and Its Discontents: Selected Writ…
Books in review
Reading Tocqueville Today
(2001). Reading Tocqueville Today. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 227-233
The Wars of the Twentieth Century
Liberation from the Weberian Iron Cage
(2002). Liberation from the Weberian Iron Cage: Pierre Manent on Max Weber. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 165-172
The Perils of Identity Politics
Three leading French political thinkers reflect on why modern democracies tend to forget their own natures, even to the point of encouraging an assertive "identitarianism" that could undermine liberal democracy itself
Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham
Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham, Thomas L. Pangle, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. 263 In the beginning was Leo Strauss with his trailblazing Platonizing exegeses of Genesis, “On the Interpretation of Genesis” and “Jerusalem and Athens.” Strauss begat many strong and independent minds who commented on the text. Hillel Fradkin and Robert Sacks were two of the earliest, as was Leon Kass. Kass recently pub…
Fortunate Powerlessness
(2005). 'Fortunate Powerlessness': Pierre Manent on Montesquieu's Constitutional System of Modern Liberty. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 79-87
Wrestling with Gods and Men
Nation, democracy, and french political theory
A Socratic on the Elysée
In her chapter on "the clandestine ideology of the time," the French philosopher Chantal Delsol makes her own "Socratic turn" and analyzes a set of dominant opinions on the European scene. She discovers at their root a distinct view of human nature that is a terribly impoverished ideological construct. She thus points to an urgent need for her contemporaries to reconsider democracy's core anthropological tenets of human equality and freedom. This…
Papal Globalization
Globalization seems ubiquitous today as a complex reality and theme of discussion. In Caritas in veritate (2009), the sole social encyclical of his pontificate, Benedict XVI weighed in on the topic. Wide-ranging in its themes and prescriptions, what was most distinctive about the encyclical was its theological perspective and framework. This essay attempts to lay bare that vision in its characteristic features. Because of its topic and intellectu…
Guest Editors' Introduction
Editor’s Introduction to a Symposium on A Constitution in Full
A Socratic in the Late Modern Democratic City
Pierre Manent opens his study of natural law with an investigation into the dominant opinion concerning justice in the contemporary democratic city. A modern-day Socratic, he traces it to a specifically modern view of human rights and human nature. Employing the Socratic method, he probes their meaning and their limits
Sentire Cum Brownsone
Sentire cum Brownsone provides an exposition of the political philosophy of Orestes Brownson (1803–1876). Negatively, his disagreements with modern social contract theory and its underlying anthropology are laid out, while positively, his key concepts – the unwritten constitution, territorial democracy, and the American Republic – are unpacked. His thinking about the complex relationship between Christianity and America's constitutional order is …
A Personal Point of View
During the Cold War, Peter Augustine Lawler was a close student of the great anti-Communist dissidents, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Váçlav Havel. They taught him not only about the nature of Soviet Communism, but about modernity tout court. From both, he learned a positive lesson as well, the reality of the human person. Falsified by modern thought and directly assaulted by communist ideocracy, the truth of the person was the chief positive lesson…
Paul & Empire Criticism
The Narrow Passage
Pierre Manent on the Ancient Greeks’ Contributions to “the Western Dynamic
Pierre Manent on the Western Dynamic
The Battle for Europe’s Soul
The French political philosopher Pierre Manent (b. 1949) has been tracking the European adventure for fifty years. In order to articulate his discoveries, he has coined a number of terms, chief of which are “political form” and “the religion of Humanity”. This essay presents a primer on his thought on the latter, an ersatz humanitarian faith that “is a veil to our eyes and a down comforter to our eyes.” Elevating an abstract idea of human unity, …
Response to Minkov’s “Strauss and Pascal”
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