Fred M Frohock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fred M Frohock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fred M |
| FAMILY NAME | Frohock |
| SIGNATURE | FROHOCK F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Lives of the Psychics
Bounded Divinities
This serves as a handbook to guide us through the thickets of the sacred, the secular, religion and politics, by charting the supernatural as a natural defining feature of religion. Santería is used a
Divine Ordinances
It is easy to forget, within the comfortable landscape of social religions, that the metaphysical and the practical are fused in a way of life throughout many cultures, and this way of life is governed not by the social but by a transcendent reality, often configured as God. Look, for example, at a religion—a term indicating a distinct practice only, it seems, in recent Western history—that is not part of the mainstream in Western life. The relig…
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Global System
The sharpest divide within the field of political theory may be the one that separates those theorists oriented to external conditions and those concerned primarily with internal landscapes. Karl Marx is probably the prototype externalist, preferring to reform human communities by rearranging the conditions under which people live and think. John Rawls is the latest in a long line of political philosophers (dating from Plato and moving through Im…
Hard Times and Innovative Theory
That we live in strange and hard times has been an observed fact of life for anyone witnessing the twentieth century. In Desolation and Enlightenment, Ira Katznelson has written a rich and thoughtful overview of critical works in political inquiry and history that have attempted to understand these times—with their spectacles of total war, totalitarianism, and in particular the holocaust. Katznelson's guides are venerable, including primarily Kar…
Sacred texts
It seems indisputable that the way we define and classify texts influences the way we read texts. My concern is to develop methods for reading and understanding texts that are influenced by distinctions between the secular and the sacred, and then draw out some preliminary implications of these methods and distinctions for relationships between church and state in liberal democracies. Distinctions between sacred and secular texts can be tracked w…
Moving Lines and Variable Criteria
The standard narratives of medicine recognize its origins in natural cures and in religious or spiritual discourses. The uneasy relationships of such practices (now designated as complementary or alternative medicine [CAM]) to conventional health care today can be tracked to the formation of medicine as a distinct profession based on modern science. The author accepts four statements as a framework for exploring CAM in the context of modern medic…
Words and Things
Conceptions of Persons
L'A. defend la these selon laquelle le sens politique de la personne defini par J. Rawls dans le cadre de la theorie liberale repose sur deux conceptions metaphysiques de la personne designees par le dualisme de la propriete et le dualisme pratique, qui presentent deux alternatives au dualisme ontologique de J. Searle et a la version non-duelle du soi chez D. Dummett. L'A. souligne la pertinence de l'approche narrative du soi (Foucault) au regard…
The Boundaries of Public Reason
Modern versions of public reason occasionally must address disputes so profound and divisive that the adjudicative powers of reason cannot resolve them on the expectations of liberal governance. The beliefs underlying these disputes represent the legitimate pluralism of the liberal state, but they also reproducewithinthe languages of public reason the same divisive views that the liberal state must manage in the larger society. The effects of div…
Healing Traditions
Psychosis and Power
Is Bioethics Irrelevant
book reviews
Liberal Maps of Consent
In liberalism, consent is elaborated in terms of two concepts, competence and negative liberty, and typically is used against paternalism to ensure individual liberty. But, this article suggests, paternalistic intervention can sometimes be justified on the same values used to support individual liberty. Moreover, the requirements for competence and negative liberty can sometimes be in conflict. The author argues that alternative conditions can be…
Regimes Not Worth Saving
fication of those public resolutions that will meet our communal aims. He searches for this resolution through a long and not entirely successful discussion of political philosophy from its classical origins through modern liberal theory. Sherlock's goal is to establish the importance of regimes-that common set of beliefs shaping the rules and practices of a political society-in political life. Regimes assume a certain vision of the fundamental
Special Care
Liberty, Economics, and Evidence
Relationships in liberal theory between liberty and economic well-being are empirical propositions: (a) economic conditions can reach a level so low as to make the effective establishment of liberty impossible; (b) the marginal value of economic gain diminishes with respect to the value of liberty as economic conditions improve; and (c) the priority standing of liberty requires the development of social forms and conditions necessary for the esta…
Naturalism and Social Science
Rationality, Morality, and Impossibility Theorems
The impossibility theorem developed by Kenneth Arrow has implications for both rationality and morality in political thought. Transitivity in a collective ordering can be assured only with a decisive set, but this outcome is acknowledged as morally undesirable. The alternatives exhibited by the theorem thus seem to require a choice between rationality and morality. But exit routes can be cut out of this dilemma with the idea of a conditional orde…
"The Structure of "Politics
Taxonomic definitions of politics are chronically unable to extend class properties to the heterogeneous scope of political events, leading to the view that "politics" may be a standard cluster concept. Clusters of properties, however, may be arranged around core terms strongly retentive in ordinary uses of a concept. Some terms are even rigid designators, necessary and sufficient conditions for reference in all possible worlds. The concept of "p…
Individuals and Aggregates
Notes on the Concept of Politics
Reasoning in Politics
"The Structure of "Politics
Taxonomic definitions of politics are chronically unable to extend class properties to the heterogeneous scope of political events, leading to the view that "politics" may be a standard cluster concept. Clusters of properties, however, may be arranged around core terms strongly retentive in ordinary uses of a concept. Some terms are even rigid designators, necessary and sufficient conditions for reference in all possible worlds. The concept of "p…
Is Bioethics Irrelevant
book reviews
Moving Lines and Variable Criteria
The standard narratives of medicine recognize its origins in natural cures and in religious or spiritual discourses. The uneasy relationships of such practices (now designated as complementary or alternative medicine [CAM]) to conventional health care today can be tracked to the formation of medicine as a distinct profession based on modern science. The author accepts four statements as a framework for exploring CAM in the context of modern medic…
The Boundaries of Public Reason
Modern versions of public reason occasionally must address disputes so profound and divisive that the adjudicative powers of reason cannot resolve them on the expectations of liberal governance. The beliefs underlying these disputes represent the legitimate pluralism of the liberal state, but they also reproducewithinthe languages of public reason the same divisive views that the liberal state must manage in the larger society. The effects of div…
Liberty, Economics, and Evidence
Relationships in liberal theory between liberty and economic well-being are empirical propositions: (a) economic conditions can reach a level so low as to make the effective establishment of liberty impossible; (b) the marginal value of economic gain diminishes with respect to the value of liberty as economic conditions improve; and (c) the priority standing of liberty requires the development of social forms and conditions necessary for the esta…
Notes on the Concept of Politics
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Global System
The sharpest divide within the field of political theory may be the one that separates those theorists oriented to external conditions and those concerned primarily with internal landscapes. Karl Marx is probably the prototype externalist, preferring to reform human communities by rearranging the conditions under which people live and think. John Rawls is the latest in a long line of political philosophers (dating from Plato and moving through Im…
Healing Traditions
Liberal Maps of Consent
In liberalism, consent is elaborated in terms of two concepts, competence and negative liberty, and typically is used against paternalism to ensure individual liberty. But, this article suggests, paternalistic intervention can sometimes be justified on the same values used to support individual liberty. Moreover, the requirements for competence and negative liberty can sometimes be in conflict. The author argues that alternative conditions can be…
Rationality, Morality, and Impossibility Theorems
The impossibility theorem developed by Kenneth Arrow has implications for both rationality and morality in political thought. Transitivity in a collective ordering can be assured only with a decisive set, but this outcome is acknowledged as morally undesirable. The alternatives exhibited by the theorem thus seem to require a choice between rationality and morality. But exit routes can be cut out of this dilemma with the idea of a conditional orde…
Reasoning in Politics
Reasoning in Politics
Notes on the Concept of Politics
Individuals and Aggregates
"The Structure of "Politics
Taxonomic definitions of politics are chronically unable to extend class properties to the heterogeneous scope of political events, leading to the view that "politics" may be a standard cluster concept. Clusters of properties, however, may be arranged around core terms strongly retentive in ordinary uses of a concept. Some terms are even rigid designators, necessary and sufficient conditions for reference in all possible worlds. The concept of "p…
Rationality, Morality, and Impossibility Theorems
The impossibility theorem developed by Kenneth Arrow has implications for both rationality and morality in political thought. Transitivity in a collective ordering can be assured only with a decisive set, but this outcome is acknowledged as morally undesirable. The alternatives exhibited by the theorem thus seem to require a choice between rationality and morality. But exit routes can be cut out of this dilemma with the idea of a conditional orde…
Naturalism and Social Science
Liberty, Economics, and Evidence
Relationships in liberal theory between liberty and economic well-being are empirical propositions: (a) economic conditions can reach a level so low as to make the effective establishment of liberty impossible; (b) the marginal value of economic gain diminishes with respect to the value of liberty as economic conditions improve; and (c) the priority standing of liberty requires the development of social forms and conditions necessary for the esta…
Special Care
Regimes Not Worth Saving
fication of those public resolutions that will meet our communal aims. He searches for this resolution through a long and not entirely successful discussion of political philosophy from its classical origins through modern liberal theory. Sherlock's goal is to establish the importance of regimes-that common set of beliefs shaping the rules and practices of a political society-in political life. Regimes assume a certain vision of the fundamental
Liberal Maps of Consent
In liberalism, consent is elaborated in terms of two concepts, competence and negative liberty, and typically is used against paternalism to ensure individual liberty. But, this article suggests, paternalistic intervention can sometimes be justified on the same values used to support individual liberty. Moreover, the requirements for competence and negative liberty can sometimes be in conflict. The author argues that alternative conditions can be…
Is Bioethics Irrelevant
book reviews
Healing Traditions
Psychosis and Power
Conceptions of Persons
L'A. defend la these selon laquelle le sens politique de la personne defini par J. Rawls dans le cadre de la theorie liberale repose sur deux conceptions metaphysiques de la personne designees par le dualisme de la propriete et le dualisme pratique, qui presentent deux alternatives au dualisme ontologique de J. Searle et a la version non-duelle du soi chez D. Dummett. L'A. souligne la pertinence de l'approche narrative du soi (Foucault) au regard…
The Boundaries of Public Reason
Modern versions of public reason occasionally must address disputes so profound and divisive that the adjudicative powers of reason cannot resolve them on the expectations of liberal governance. The beliefs underlying these disputes represent the legitimate pluralism of the liberal state, but they also reproducewithinthe languages of public reason the same divisive views that the liberal state must manage in the larger society. The effects of div…
Moving Lines and Variable Criteria
The standard narratives of medicine recognize its origins in natural cures and in religious or spiritual discourses. The uneasy relationships of such practices (now designated as complementary or alternative medicine [CAM]) to conventional health care today can be tracked to the formation of medicine as a distinct profession based on modern science. The author accepts four statements as a framework for exploring CAM in the context of modern medic…
Words and Things
Sacred texts
It seems indisputable that the way we define and classify texts influences the way we read texts. My concern is to develop methods for reading and understanding texts that are influenced by distinctions between the secular and the sacred, and then draw out some preliminary implications of these methods and distinctions for relationships between church and state in liberal democracies. Distinctions between sacred and secular texts can be tracked w…
Hard Times and Innovative Theory
That we live in strange and hard times has been an observed fact of life for anyone witnessing the twentieth century. In Desolation and Enlightenment, Ira Katznelson has written a rich and thoughtful overview of critical works in political inquiry and history that have attempted to understand these times—with their spectacles of total war, totalitarianism, and in particular the holocaust. Katznelson's guides are venerable, including primarily Kar…
Bounded Divinities
This serves as a handbook to guide us through the thickets of the sacred, the secular, religion and politics, by charting the supernatural as a natural defining feature of religion. Santería is used a
Divine Ordinances
It is easy to forget, within the comfortable landscape of social religions, that the metaphysical and the practical are fused in a way of life throughout many cultures, and this way of life is governed not by the social but by a transcendent reality, often configured as God. Look, for example, at a religion—a term indicating a distinct practice only, it seems, in recent Western history—that is not part of the mainstream in Western life. The relig…
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Global System
The sharpest divide within the field of political theory may be the one that separates those theorists oriented to external conditions and those concerned primarily with internal landscapes. Karl Marx is probably the prototype externalist, preferring to reform human communities by rearranging the conditions under which people live and think. John Rawls is the latest in a long line of political philosophers (dating from Plato and moving through Im…
Lives of the Psychics
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