Lewis P Hinchman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1047203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis P Hinchman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis P |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinchman |
| SIGNATURE | HINCHMAN L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clarkson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Should Environmentalists Reject the Enlightenment
Among environmentalists today, there is a widespread opposition to the “Enlightenment project.” Deep ecologists, in particular, aspire to ground environmental ethics and politics in premodern modes of life and thought. This move fails to account for the myriad important connections between Enlightenment themes and those of contemporary ecophilosophy. Notions of a public sphere, cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and deep time, as well as new appr…
Long Ago and Far Away Requiem for Modern Politics
Australia's Judicial Revolution
The recognition of Aboriginal land rights in Australia over the last few decades marks a political and legal shift from classical to "expressivist" or "neo-romantic" liberalism. Classical liberalism's emphasis on order, economic progress, and security of expectations could not easily accommodate Aboriginal demands for separate, collectively owned enclaves within which their cultures could flourish. These demands have rested on the religious conne…
Aldo Leopold's Hermeneutic of Nature
Reprising an ancient strand of philosophical reasoning, contemporary environmental theorists often argue as if nature (the land, ecosystems) were a repository of value in itself, establishing guidelines for human conduct in moral and political matters. John Stuart Mill supposedly discredited such reasoning in his 1854 essay, “Nature.” But modern intrinsic-value-in-nature theories differ from those that Mill attacked, as a careful reading of Leopo…
Existentialism Politicized
There has been much debate about how to locate Hannah Arendt within the tradition of political philosophy. This article argues for an “existentialist” reading, claiming that Karl Jaspers's categories reappear, politicized, in Arendt's own thought. Her language and arguments do not, in fact, become completely intelligible until read in the context of Jaspers's Existentz philosophy. The authors contend that the apparent obscurity and ambiguity of A…
The Idea of Individuality
The contemporary liberal/communitarian debate depicts the self as essentially static and unspontaneous: in the first instance, as a detached agent of choice equipped with de facto unexamined desires; in the second, as (optimally) the embodiment of virtues and narratives imbedded in socially established practices. The notion of individuality, as it developed from Goethe and Mill to the present, suggests a way to rethink this dichotomy. Individuali…
"Deep Ecology" and the Revival of Natural Right
EW popular movements in this century can claim as much success as environmentalism in influencing American public policy. Although spokesmen for the movement lament its failure to reach all its goals, its achievements are nonetheless astonishing. In a single generation (since Earth Day in 1970), environmental concerns have become part of the permanent agenda of government (Mann, in Kamieniecki et al. 1986: 20), to be heeded in everything from ene…
Virtue or Autonomy
The problem of liberal individualism has drawn much attention from political philosophers. This article probes the writings of Alasdair MacIntyre, particularly After Virtue, for the concept of society and politics that underlie his ethics. The author argues that MacIntyre treats the disorder of moral language as a symptom of deeper social, political, and human disintegration evident in the emergence of the modern autonomous individual. He conclud…
"Deep Ecology" and the Revival of Natural Right
Hegel's Critique of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment has turned different faces to those who have sought to demonstrate its significance for contemporary politics and philosophy. Some would call it the seedbed of all that is best in modern Western civilization: human rights, toleration, popular sovereignty, and the idea of progress. Others have glimpsed a darker side, stressing its celebration of instrumental reason, mechanistic determinism, hostility to religion, and political at…
In Heidegger's Shadow
Hannah Arendt's political theory gains in clarity and resonance when it is placed in the context of German phenomenology and Existenz philosophy. In this essay, the authors examine the points of contact (on the level of ideas rather than personal ties) between Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The argument holds that Arendt followed Heidegger in grafting traditional humanism onto an untraditional, self-consciously antimetaphysical body of thought. Yet…
The Origins of Human Rights
models, furnishes us with an example of how do this successfully, since its discoveries so readily lend themselves technological advances. Empiricists such as Jacobi move easily the conclusion that knowledge which does not conform the pattern of Galilean or Newtonian science and hence serve the survival imperative does not qualify as knowledge at all. The implicit criticism in Hegel's remark (and which he enlarges on in the article cited) is simp…
Hegel's Theory of Crime and Punishment
In recent times, the issues surrounding crime and punishment have seldom been discussed from the vantage point of political philosophy. Instead, they have tended to become the province of lawyers, psychologists, and specialists in ethics or the philosophy of language. Whatever the merits of their respective contributions may be, such writers usually have assumed that the basic questions of political legitimacy and the state's authority to enforce…
In Heidegger's Shadow
Hannah Arendt's political theory gains in clarity and resonance when it is placed in the context of German phenomenology and Existenz philosophy. In this essay, the authors examine the points of contact (on the level of ideas rather than personal ties) between Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The argument holds that Arendt followed Heidegger in grafting traditional humanism onto an untraditional, self-consciously antimetaphysical body of thought. Yet…
Existentialism Politicized
There has been much debate about how to locate Hannah Arendt within the tradition of political philosophy. This article argues for an “existentialist” reading, claiming that Karl Jaspers's categories reappear, politicized, in Arendt's own thought. Her language and arguments do not, in fact, become completely intelligible until read in the context of Jaspers's Existentz philosophy. The authors contend that the apparent obscurity and ambiguity of A…
Aldo Leopold's Hermeneutic of Nature
Reprising an ancient strand of philosophical reasoning, contemporary environmental theorists often argue as if nature (the land, ecosystems) were a repository of value in itself, establishing guidelines for human conduct in moral and political matters. John Stuart Mill supposedly discredited such reasoning in his 1854 essay, “Nature.” But modern intrinsic-value-in-nature theories differ from those that Mill attacked, as a careful reading of Leopo…
The Idea of Individuality
The contemporary liberal/communitarian debate depicts the self as essentially static and unspontaneous: in the first instance, as a detached agent of choice equipped with de facto unexamined desires; in the second, as (optimally) the embodiment of virtues and narratives imbedded in socially established practices. The notion of individuality, as it developed from Goethe and Mill to the present, suggests a way to rethink this dichotomy. Individuali…
Australia's Judicial Revolution
The recognition of Aboriginal land rights in Australia over the last few decades marks a political and legal shift from classical to "expressivist" or "neo-romantic" liberalism. Classical liberalism's emphasis on order, economic progress, and security of expectations could not easily accommodate Aboriginal demands for separate, collectively owned enclaves within which their cultures could flourish. These demands have rested on the religious conne…
Should Environmentalists Reject the Enlightenment
Among environmentalists today, there is a widespread opposition to the “Enlightenment project.” Deep ecologists, in particular, aspire to ground environmental ethics and politics in premodern modes of life and thought. This move fails to account for the myriad important connections between Enlightenment themes and those of contemporary ecophilosophy. Notions of a public sphere, cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and deep time, as well as new appr…
Virtue or Autonomy
The problem of liberal individualism has drawn much attention from political philosophers. This article probes the writings of Alasdair MacIntyre, particularly After Virtue, for the concept of society and politics that underlie his ethics. The author argues that MacIntyre treats the disorder of moral language as a symptom of deeper social, political, and human disintegration evident in the emergence of the modern autonomous individual. He conclud…
"Deep Ecology" and the Revival of Natural Right
The Origins of Human Rights
models, furnishes us with an example of how do this successfully, since its discoveries so readily lend themselves technological advances. Empiricists such as Jacobi move easily the conclusion that knowledge which does not conform the pattern of Galilean or Newtonian science and hence serve the survival imperative does not qualify as knowledge at all. The implicit criticism in Hegel's remark (and which he enlarges on in the article cited) is simp…
Hegel's Theory of Crime and Punishment
In recent times, the issues surrounding crime and punishment have seldom been discussed from the vantage point of political philosophy. Instead, they have tended to become the province of lawyers, psychologists, and specialists in ethics or the philosophy of language. Whatever the merits of their respective contributions may be, such writers usually have assumed that the basic questions of political legitimacy and the state's authority to enforce…
Hegel's Theory of Crime and Punishment
In recent times, the issues surrounding crime and punishment have seldom been discussed from the vantage point of political philosophy. Instead, they have tended to become the province of lawyers, psychologists, and specialists in ethics or the philosophy of language. Whatever the merits of their respective contributions may be, such writers usually have assumed that the basic questions of political legitimacy and the state's authority to enforce…
Hegel's Critique of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment has turned different faces to those who have sought to demonstrate its significance for contemporary politics and philosophy. Some would call it the seedbed of all that is best in modern Western civilization: human rights, toleration, popular sovereignty, and the idea of progress. Others have glimpsed a darker side, stressing its celebration of instrumental reason, mechanistic determinism, hostility to religion, and political at…
In Heidegger's Shadow
Hannah Arendt's political theory gains in clarity and resonance when it is placed in the context of German phenomenology and Existenz philosophy. In this essay, the authors examine the points of contact (on the level of ideas rather than personal ties) between Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The argument holds that Arendt followed Heidegger in grafting traditional humanism onto an untraditional, self-consciously antimetaphysical body of thought. Yet…
The Origins of Human Rights
models, furnishes us with an example of how do this successfully, since its discoveries so readily lend themselves technological advances. Empiricists such as Jacobi move easily the conclusion that knowledge which does not conform the pattern of Galilean or Newtonian science and hence serve the survival imperative does not qualify as knowledge at all. The implicit criticism in Hegel's remark (and which he enlarges on in the article cited) is simp…
"Deep Ecology" and the Revival of Natural Right
EW popular movements in this century can claim as much success as environmentalism in influencing American public policy. Although spokesmen for the movement lament its failure to reach all its goals, its achievements are nonetheless astonishing. In a single generation (since Earth Day in 1970), environmental concerns have become part of the permanent agenda of government (Mann, in Kamieniecki et al. 1986: 20), to be heeded in everything from ene…
Virtue or Autonomy
The problem of liberal individualism has drawn much attention from political philosophers. This article probes the writings of Alasdair MacIntyre, particularly After Virtue, for the concept of society and politics that underlie his ethics. The author argues that MacIntyre treats the disorder of moral language as a symptom of deeper social, political, and human disintegration evident in the emergence of the modern autonomous individual. He conclud…
"Deep Ecology" and the Revival of Natural Right
The Idea of Individuality
The contemporary liberal/communitarian debate depicts the self as essentially static and unspontaneous: in the first instance, as a detached agent of choice equipped with de facto unexamined desires; in the second, as (optimally) the embodiment of virtues and narratives imbedded in socially established practices. The notion of individuality, as it developed from Goethe and Mill to the present, suggests a way to rethink this dichotomy. Individuali…
Existentialism Politicized
There has been much debate about how to locate Hannah Arendt within the tradition of political philosophy. This article argues for an “existentialist” reading, claiming that Karl Jaspers's categories reappear, politicized, in Arendt's own thought. Her language and arguments do not, in fact, become completely intelligible until read in the context of Jaspers's Existentz philosophy. The authors contend that the apparent obscurity and ambiguity of A…
Aldo Leopold's Hermeneutic of Nature
Reprising an ancient strand of philosophical reasoning, contemporary environmental theorists often argue as if nature (the land, ecosystems) were a repository of value in itself, establishing guidelines for human conduct in moral and political matters. John Stuart Mill supposedly discredited such reasoning in his 1854 essay, “Nature.” But modern intrinsic-value-in-nature theories differ from those that Mill attacked, as a careful reading of Leopo…
Long Ago and Far Away Requiem for Modern Politics
Australia's Judicial Revolution
The recognition of Aboriginal land rights in Australia over the last few decades marks a political and legal shift from classical to "expressivist" or "neo-romantic" liberalism. Classical liberalism's emphasis on order, economic progress, and security of expectations could not easily accommodate Aboriginal demands for separate, collectively owned enclaves within which their cultures could flourish. These demands have rested on the religious conne…
Should Environmentalists Reject the Enlightenment
Among environmentalists today, there is a widespread opposition to the “Enlightenment project.” Deep ecologists, in particular, aspire to ground environmental ethics and politics in premodern modes of life and thought. This move fails to account for the myriad important connections between Enlightenment themes and those of contemporary ecophilosophy. Notions of a public sphere, cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and deep time, as well as new appr…
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