Chris W Surprenant
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris W Surprenant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris W |
| FAMILY NAME | Surprenant |
| SIGNATURE | SURPRENANT C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philosophy, Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5077-1346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Policing and Punishment for Profit
Injustice for All: How Financial Incentives Corrupted and Can Fix the US Criminal Justice System
American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess. Cops are too violent, the punishments are too punitive, and the so-called Land of the Free imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Understanding why means focusing on color—not only on black or white (which already has been studied extensively), but also on green. The problem is that nearly everyone involved in criminal justice—including district attorneys, elected judges, the …
Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment
Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Philosophers' attempts to justify punishment have focused on a wide range of features that paradigmatic cases of punishment possess. The most obvious such features are, of course, punishment's (alleged) capacity for incapacitating wrongdoers and deterring future wrongdoing (Bentham 1907 [1780]; Tadros 2011); and its (alleged) ability to exact from an offender a deserved quantum of suffering (Kant 1996 [1797]). Others include its supposed capacity…
Kant and the Cultivation of Virtue
In this book, Chris W. Surprenant puts forward an original position concerning Kant’s practical philosophy and the intersection between his moral and political philosophy. Although Kant provides a detailed account of the nature of morality, the nature of human virtue, and how right manifests itself in civil society, he does not explain fully how individuals are able to become virtuous. This book aims to resolve this problem by showing how an indi…
Physical Education as a Prerequisite for the Possibility of Human Virtue
This article examines the role of physical education in the process of moral education, and argues that physical education is a necessary prerequisite for the possibility of human virtue. This discussion is divided into four parts. First, I examine the nature of morality and moral decision-making. Drawing on the moral theories presented by Plato, Aristotle and Kant, I argue that morality is connected with reason and the attainment of objectively …
The Agony of Power. By Jean Baudrillard
Politics and Practical Wisdom: Rethinking Aristotle’s Account of Phronesis
Kant’s contribution to moral education: The Relevance of Catechistics
Kant’s deontological ethics, along with Aristotle’s virtue ethics and Mill’s utilitarian ethics, is often identified as one of the three primary moral options between which individuals can choose. Given the importance of Kant’s moral philosophy, it is surprising and disappointing how little has been written on his important contributions to moral education. Kant argues for a catechistic approach to moral education. By memorising a series of moral…
Cultivating Virtue: Moral Progress and the Kantian State
After examining the ethical and political writings of Immanuel Kant, one finds an apparent paradox in his philosophy as his perfectionist moral teachings appear to be linked to his anti-perfectionist political theory. Specifically, he writes that the perfection of moral character can only take place for an individual who is inside of civil society, a condition where no laws may legitimately be implemented expressly for the purpose of trying to ma…
Kant’s contribution to moral education: The Relevance of Catechistics
Kant’s deontological ethics, along with Aristotle’s virtue ethics and Mill’s utilitarian ethics, is often identified as one of the three primary moral options between which individuals can choose. Given the importance of Kant’s moral philosophy, it is surprising and disappointing how little has been written on his important contributions to moral education. Kant argues for a catechistic approach to moral education. By memorising a series of moral…
Kant and the Cultivation of Virtue
In this book, Chris W. Surprenant puts forward an original position concerning Kant’s practical philosophy and the intersection between his moral and political philosophy. Although Kant provides a detailed account of the nature of morality, the nature of human virtue, and how right manifests itself in civil society, he does not explain fully how individuals are able to become virtuous. This book aims to resolve this problem by showing how an indi…
Physical Education as a Prerequisite for the Possibility of Human Virtue
This article examines the role of physical education in the process of moral education, and argues that physical education is a necessary prerequisite for the possibility of human virtue. This discussion is divided into four parts. First, I examine the nature of morality and moral decision-making. Drawing on the moral theories presented by Plato, Aristotle and Kant, I argue that morality is connected with reason and the attainment of objectively …
Cultivating Virtue: Moral Progress and the Kantian State
After examining the ethical and political writings of Immanuel Kant, one finds an apparent paradox in his philosophy as his perfectionist moral teachings appear to be linked to his anti-perfectionist political theory. Specifically, he writes that the perfection of moral character can only take place for an individual who is inside of civil society, a condition where no laws may legitimately be implemented expressly for the purpose of trying to ma…
Kant’s contribution to moral education: The Relevance of Catechistics
Kant’s deontological ethics, along with Aristotle’s virtue ethics and Mill’s utilitarian ethics, is often identified as one of the three primary moral options between which individuals can choose. Given the importance of Kant’s moral philosophy, it is surprising and disappointing how little has been written on his important contributions to moral education. Kant argues for a catechistic approach to moral education. By memorising a series of moral…
The Agony of Power. By Jean Baudrillard
Politics and Practical Wisdom: Rethinking Aristotle’s Account of Phronesis
Physical Education as a Prerequisite for the Possibility of Human Virtue
This article examines the role of physical education in the process of moral education, and argues that physical education is a necessary prerequisite for the possibility of human virtue. This discussion is divided into four parts. First, I examine the nature of morality and moral decision-making. Drawing on the moral theories presented by Plato, Aristotle and Kant, I argue that morality is connected with reason and the attainment of objectively …
Kant and the Cultivation of Virtue
In this book, Chris W. Surprenant puts forward an original position concerning Kant’s practical philosophy and the intersection between his moral and political philosophy. Although Kant provides a detailed account of the nature of morality, the nature of human virtue, and how right manifests itself in civil society, he does not explain fully how individuals are able to become virtuous. This book aims to resolve this problem by showing how an indi…
Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment
Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Philosophers' attempts to justify punishment have focused on a wide range of features that paradigmatic cases of punishment possess. The most obvious such features are, of course, punishment's (alleged) capacity for incapacitating wrongdoers and deterring future wrongdoing (Bentham 1907 [1780]; Tadros 2011); and its (alleged) ability to exact from an offender a deserved quantum of suffering (Kant 1996 [1797]). Others include its supposed capacity…
Policing and Punishment for Profit
Injustice for All: How Financial Incentives Corrupted and Can Fix the US Criminal Justice System
American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess. Cops are too violent, the punishments are too punitive, and the so-called Land of the Free imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Understanding why means focusing on color—not only on black or white (which already has been studied extensively), but also on green. The problem is that nearly everyone involved in criminal justice—including district attorneys, elected judges, the …
Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Virtue (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Moral psychology (3 works)