Joshua Parens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1324264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Parens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Parens |
| SIGNATURE | PARENS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dallas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
El pensamiento de Leo Strauss
Se examinan críticamente algunas de las principales interpretaciones del pensamiento de Leo Strauss que lo relacionan tanto con el gobierno conservador de George Bush y la justificación de la guerra en Irak, como con la teología política de Carl Schmitt, para concluir que Strauss tiene muy poco que ver con ambos, si bien comparte algunos puntos
Qué es la tradición occidental
para no poder relacionarse propiamente con ella.Entre los ejemplos más importantes de esta relación están las diversas épocas de resurgimiento.Según Brague, esta relación moderada de Europa con su pasado significa que ha sido capaz de retornar a sus orígenes en Atenas y Jerusalén, de tal manera que asume estos elementos en un contacto mediado por Roma -una relación que Brague caracteriza como "romanidad" o "secundariedad"-, esto es, una voluntad …
Strauss on Maimonides’ Secretive Political Science
In the rest of WIPP?, Strauss calls for historical studies of works that precede the rise of historicism. “Maimonides' Statement on Political Science” is one such historical study, which enables him to bring out some features that link and others that divide medieval from modern political science. Although Maimonides and Machiavelli are similar in their secretiveness about the ancient alliance of princes and philosophers, the former is so secreti…
Breaking with Athens
Breaking with Athens: Alfarabi as Founder. By Christopher A. Colmo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. 210p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. The thesis of this book is novel and provocative. Christopher Colmo argues that Alfarabi breaks with Plato and Aristotle. In other words, contrary to Leo Strauss and others (among whom I count myself), Alfarabi is not, among other things, a useful guide to the recovery of a forgotten Plato and Aristotle. At his …
Maimonidean Ethics Revisited
Most recent interpreters of Maimonides argue that his ethical views develop from support of the mean in Eight Chapters to support of asceticism in "Laws Concerning Character Traits" and the Guide. This article challenges that interpretation: first, through a reconsideration of Aristotle's views on the mean and the relation of the ethically virtuous life to the contemplative life, and, second, through a reconsideration of Maimonides' texts. One ri…
Alfarabi, The Political Writings
Whose Liberalism? Which Islam? Leonard Binder's “Islamic Liberalism”
For many students of contemporary Arab politics, the most pressing question is whether Islam will become democratic. One need only point to the case of Algeria to find ready evidence that Islamic movements have already become highly democratic, although frustrated in their electoral objective. Leonard Binder (1989), however, asks a far more pressing question: Will Islam become liberal? As Tocqueville shows, democracy or the love of equality comes…
Multiculturalism and the Problem of Particularism
When Kant first used the term "culture," he referred to the human capacity to will universal moral laws. Multiculturalists object to the denial of "difference" implicit in Kantian as well as all other Enlightenment forms of universalism. Their objection stems from their more particularistic understanding of culture, which for the most part everyone shares today. Plato is frequently said to be the fount of (universal) natural law theory; yet a med…
Theory and Practice in Medieval Aristotelianism Interpreting Maimonides
Multiculturalism and the Problem of Particularism
When Kant first used the term "culture," he referred to the human capacity to will universal moral laws. Multiculturalists object to the denial of "difference" implicit in Kantian as well as all other Enlightenment forms of universalism. Their objection stems from their more particularistic understanding of culture, which for the most part everyone shares today. Plato is frequently said to be the fount of (universal) natural law theory; yet a med…
Breaking with Athens
Breaking with Athens: Alfarabi as Founder. By Christopher A. Colmo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. 210p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. The thesis of this book is novel and provocative. Christopher Colmo argues that Alfarabi breaks with Plato and Aristotle. In other words, contrary to Leo Strauss and others (among whom I count myself), Alfarabi is not, among other things, a useful guide to the recovery of a forgotten Plato and Aristotle. At his …
Theory and Practice in Medieval Aristotelianism Interpreting Maimonides
Whose Liberalism? Which Islam? Leonard Binder's “Islamic Liberalism”
For many students of contemporary Arab politics, the most pressing question is whether Islam will become democratic. One need only point to the case of Algeria to find ready evidence that Islamic movements have already become highly democratic, although frustrated in their electoral objective. Leonard Binder (1989), however, asks a far more pressing question: Will Islam become liberal? As Tocqueville shows, democracy or the love of equality comes…
Multiculturalism and the Problem of Particularism
When Kant first used the term "culture," he referred to the human capacity to will universal moral laws. Multiculturalists object to the denial of "difference" implicit in Kantian as well as all other Enlightenment forms of universalism. Their objection stems from their more particularistic understanding of culture, which for the most part everyone shares today. Plato is frequently said to be the fount of (universal) natural law theory; yet a med…
Maimonidean Ethics Revisited
Most recent interpreters of Maimonides argue that his ethical views develop from support of the mean in Eight Chapters to support of asceticism in "Laws Concerning Character Traits" and the Guide. This article challenges that interpretation: first, through a reconsideration of Aristotle's views on the mean and the relation of the ethically virtuous life to the contemplative life, and, second, through a reconsideration of Maimonides' texts. One ri…
Alfarabi, The Political Writings
Breaking with Athens
Breaking with Athens: Alfarabi as Founder. By Christopher A. Colmo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. 210p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. The thesis of this book is novel and provocative. Christopher Colmo argues that Alfarabi breaks with Plato and Aristotle. In other words, contrary to Leo Strauss and others (among whom I count myself), Alfarabi is not, among other things, a useful guide to the recovery of a forgotten Plato and Aristotle. At his …
Strauss on Maimonides’ Secretive Political Science
In the rest of WIPP?, Strauss calls for historical studies of works that precede the rise of historicism. “Maimonides' Statement on Political Science” is one such historical study, which enables him to bring out some features that link and others that divide medieval from modern political science. Although Maimonides and Machiavelli are similar in their secretiveness about the ancient alliance of princes and philosophers, the former is so secreti…
Qué es la tradición occidental
para no poder relacionarse propiamente con ella.Entre los ejemplos más importantes de esta relación están las diversas épocas de resurgimiento.Según Brague, esta relación moderada de Europa con su pasado significa que ha sido capaz de retornar a sus orígenes en Atenas y Jerusalén, de tal manera que asume estos elementos en un contacto mediado por Roma -una relación que Brague caracteriza como "romanidad" o "secundariedad"-, esto es, una voluntad …
El pensamiento de Leo Strauss
Se examinan críticamente algunas de las principales interpretaciones del pensamiento de Leo Strauss que lo relacionan tanto con el gobierno conservador de George Bush y la justificación de la guerra en Irak, como con la teología política de Carl Schmitt, para concluir que Strauss tiene muy poco que ver con ambos, si bien comparte algunos puntos
Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (4 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)