Aristide Tessitore
Biographic Data
| ID | 1324286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aristide Tessitore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aristide |
| FAMILY NAME | Tessitore |
| SIGNATURE | TESSITORE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Furman University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tocqueville’s American Thesis and the New Science of Politics
The core of Tocqueville’s American thesis is the singular combination of the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty characteristic of the Puritan experiment in America, together with his dual claim that this fact both constitutes the proper starting point for understanding “American civilization” and provides “the key to nearly the whole book.” This essay gradually traces Tocqueville’s religious “point of departure” to its root cause in Chr…
Political Theology and the Theological-Political Problem
This essay offers a critical appreciation of Mark Lilla's Stillborn God. To his credit, Lilla understands the primacy and enduring appeal of political theology, as well as the danger of intellectual complacency about the underlying principles of modern politics. Lilla maintains that modern politics is a relatively recent and radically novel experiment that aims at nothing less than displacing a primordial and perennial way of constituting politic…
Natural Law Liberalism
Natural Law Liberalism. By Christopher Wolfe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 268p. $75.00 cloth. Although natural law theory and liberal political philosophy signify two realms of thought typically regarded as at loggerheads, Christopher Wolfe's provocatively titled book not only argues for their theoretical compatibility but also sets forth a new synthesis intended to furnish the basis for an inclusive American public philosophy at …
Tocqueville and Gobineau on the Nature of Modern Politics
This essay takes its bearings from an epistolary dialogue between Arthur de Gobineau and Alexis de Tocqueville about the contours of modern politics. Their dispute illuminates in a remarkable way the theological-political problem that suffuses the emergence of modern politics and, as a consequence, provides a helpful frame of reference for understanding several contemporary controversies bearing on the relationship between religion and liberal de…
Justice, Politics, and Piety in Sophocles′Philoctetes
The easy conflation of god(s) and country-what might be called the dual foundations of justice-is challenged and explored in Sophocles′ Philoctetes . Odysseus's consistent appeal to the common good and Philoctetes′ troubled attachment to a divinely sanctioned principle of justice are set at odds in a play where the fate of the entire Greek expedition at Troy hangs in the balance. While most read the play as a celebration of young Neoptolemus as h…
Tocqueville between Two Worlds
Alexis de Tocqueville on the Natural State of Religion in the Age of Democracy
Contemporary scholars, journalists, and politicians are deeply divided with respect to the religious or secular character of America's founding principles. In sharp contrast to the narrowing tendencies of contemporary intellectual and political life, Tocqueville's classic study of democracy in America is the first of any scope to give weight to America's dual founding-biblical and philosophic. For Tocqueville it is the combination of two differen…
Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle's Politics. Fred D. Miller, Jr
Courage and Comedy in Plato's Laches
Plato's Socrates is in some sense the hero of the Laches; he embodies courage in both word and deed. As such, the casual reader is invited to reflect on a possible harmony between civic courage and the quality of soul characteristic of philosophy. However, Plato's pervasive use of comic irony in this dialogue reveals an enduring tension between the limits of political courage and the requirements of philosophic self-possession. Comedy is the vehi…
Aristotle & Modern Liberalism Citizens and Statesmen
Aristotle's Ambiguous Account of the Best Life
This article examines the problematic relationship between moral and intellectual virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics by exploring Aristotle's concern with two different audiences: those inclined toward an active political life and those who are potential philosophers. The author argues that attentiveness to the dual audience of the Ethics renders intelligible Aristotle's apparently inconsistent teaching on moral virtue as an end in itself in Books …
Euripides' Medea and the Problem of Spiritedness
TheMedeais Euripides' most famous play and perhaps his most enigmatic. The unwieldy character of the play's central figure and the movement of the play as a whole defy the traditional categories of tragedy. Attentiveness to the usually neglected political dimension ofMedeasheds new light on some of its persistent enigmas. It also suggests that Euripides was less than sanguine about the kinds of excesses the impending war with Sparta was likely to…
Plato's Lysis
Making the City Safe for Philosophy
The perennially problematic relationship between philosophy and politics, though recognized as an important theme in the Platonic corpus, is virtually ignored in the writings of his most famous student. This is not due to the absence of the problem but the deftness of Aristotle's treatment. Attentiveness to both the requirements of moral-political life and the nature of philosophy gives rise to the rhetorical design of theNicomachean Ethics.In th…
A Political Reading of Aristotle's Treatment of Pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics
Tocqueville and Gobineau on the Nature of Modern Politics
This essay takes its bearings from an epistolary dialogue between Arthur de Gobineau and Alexis de Tocqueville about the contours of modern politics. Their dispute illuminates in a remarkable way the theological-political problem that suffuses the emergence of modern politics and, as a consequence, provides a helpful frame of reference for understanding several contemporary controversies bearing on the relationship between religion and liberal de…
Justice, Politics, and Piety in Sophocles′Philoctetes
The easy conflation of god(s) and country-what might be called the dual foundations of justice-is challenged and explored in Sophocles′ Philoctetes . Odysseus's consistent appeal to the common good and Philoctetes′ troubled attachment to a divinely sanctioned principle of justice are set at odds in a play where the fate of the entire Greek expedition at Troy hangs in the balance. While most read the play as a celebration of young Neoptolemus as h…
Alexis de Tocqueville on the Natural State of Religion in the Age of Democracy
Contemporary scholars, journalists, and politicians are deeply divided with respect to the religious or secular character of America's founding principles. In sharp contrast to the narrowing tendencies of contemporary intellectual and political life, Tocqueville's classic study of democracy in America is the first of any scope to give weight to America's dual founding-biblical and philosophic. For Tocqueville it is the combination of two differen…
Tocqueville’s American Thesis and the New Science of Politics
The core of Tocqueville’s American thesis is the singular combination of the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty characteristic of the Puritan experiment in America, together with his dual claim that this fact both constitutes the proper starting point for understanding “American civilization” and provides “the key to nearly the whole book.” This essay gradually traces Tocqueville’s religious “point of departure” to its root cause in Chr…
Courage and Comedy in Plato's Laches
Plato's Socrates is in some sense the hero of the Laches; he embodies courage in both word and deed. As such, the casual reader is invited to reflect on a possible harmony between civic courage and the quality of soul characteristic of philosophy. However, Plato's pervasive use of comic irony in this dialogue reveals an enduring tension between the limits of political courage and the requirements of philosophic self-possession. Comedy is the vehi…
Euripides' Medea and the Problem of Spiritedness
TheMedeais Euripides' most famous play and perhaps his most enigmatic. The unwieldy character of the play's central figure and the movement of the play as a whole defy the traditional categories of tragedy. Attentiveness to the usually neglected political dimension ofMedeasheds new light on some of its persistent enigmas. It also suggests that Euripides was less than sanguine about the kinds of excesses the impending war with Sparta was likely to…
A Political Reading of Aristotle's Treatment of Pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics
Making the City Safe for Philosophy
The perennially problematic relationship between philosophy and politics, though recognized as an important theme in the Platonic corpus, is virtually ignored in the writings of his most famous student. This is not due to the absence of the problem but the deftness of Aristotle's treatment. Attentiveness to both the requirements of moral-political life and the nature of philosophy gives rise to the rhetorical design of theNicomachean Ethics.In th…
A Political Reading of Aristotle's Treatment of Pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics
Plato's Lysis
Making the City Safe for Philosophy
The perennially problematic relationship between philosophy and politics, though recognized as an important theme in the Platonic corpus, is virtually ignored in the writings of his most famous student. This is not due to the absence of the problem but the deftness of Aristotle's treatment. Attentiveness to both the requirements of moral-political life and the nature of philosophy gives rise to the rhetorical design of theNicomachean Ethics.In th…
Euripides' Medea and the Problem of Spiritedness
TheMedeais Euripides' most famous play and perhaps his most enigmatic. The unwieldy character of the play's central figure and the movement of the play as a whole defy the traditional categories of tragedy. Attentiveness to the usually neglected political dimension ofMedeasheds new light on some of its persistent enigmas. It also suggests that Euripides was less than sanguine about the kinds of excesses the impending war with Sparta was likely to…
Aristotle's Ambiguous Account of the Best Life
This article examines the problematic relationship between moral and intellectual virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics by exploring Aristotle's concern with two different audiences: those inclined toward an active political life and those who are potential philosophers. The author argues that attentiveness to the dual audience of the Ethics renders intelligible Aristotle's apparently inconsistent teaching on moral virtue as an end in itself in Books …
Aristotle & Modern Liberalism Citizens and Statesmen
Courage and Comedy in Plato's Laches
Plato's Socrates is in some sense the hero of the Laches; he embodies courage in both word and deed. As such, the casual reader is invited to reflect on a possible harmony between civic courage and the quality of soul characteristic of philosophy. However, Plato's pervasive use of comic irony in this dialogue reveals an enduring tension between the limits of political courage and the requirements of philosophic self-possession. Comedy is the vehi…
Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle's Politics. Fred D. Miller, Jr
Tocqueville between Two Worlds
Alexis de Tocqueville on the Natural State of Religion in the Age of Democracy
Contemporary scholars, journalists, and politicians are deeply divided with respect to the religious or secular character of America's founding principles. In sharp contrast to the narrowing tendencies of contemporary intellectual and political life, Tocqueville's classic study of democracy in America is the first of any scope to give weight to America's dual founding-biblical and philosophic. For Tocqueville it is the combination of two differen…
Justice, Politics, and Piety in Sophocles′Philoctetes
The easy conflation of god(s) and country-what might be called the dual foundations of justice-is challenged and explored in Sophocles′ Philoctetes . Odysseus's consistent appeal to the common good and Philoctetes′ troubled attachment to a divinely sanctioned principle of justice are set at odds in a play where the fate of the entire Greek expedition at Troy hangs in the balance. While most read the play as a celebration of young Neoptolemus as h…
Tocqueville and Gobineau on the Nature of Modern Politics
This essay takes its bearings from an epistolary dialogue between Arthur de Gobineau and Alexis de Tocqueville about the contours of modern politics. Their dispute illuminates in a remarkable way the theological-political problem that suffuses the emergence of modern politics and, as a consequence, provides a helpful frame of reference for understanding several contemporary controversies bearing on the relationship between religion and liberal de…
Natural Law Liberalism
Natural Law Liberalism. By Christopher Wolfe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 268p. $75.00 cloth. Although natural law theory and liberal political philosophy signify two realms of thought typically regarded as at loggerheads, Christopher Wolfe's provocatively titled book not only argues for their theoretical compatibility but also sets forth a new synthesis intended to furnish the basis for an inclusive American public philosophy at …
Political Theology and the Theological-Political Problem
This essay offers a critical appreciation of Mark Lilla's Stillborn God. To his credit, Lilla understands the primacy and enduring appeal of political theology, as well as the danger of intellectual complacency about the underlying principles of modern politics. Lilla maintains that modern politics is a relatively recent and radically novel experiment that aims at nothing less than displacing a primordial and perennial way of constituting politic…
Tocqueville’s American Thesis and the New Science of Politics
The core of Tocqueville’s American thesis is the singular combination of the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty characteristic of the Puritan experiment in America, together with his dual claim that this fact both constitutes the proper starting point for understanding “American civilization” and provides “the key to nearly the whole book.” This essay gradually traces Tocqueville’s religious “point of departure” to its root cause in Chr…
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