Daniel M Johnson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 144801 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniel M Johnson |
| PRENOMES | Daniel M |
| SOBRENOME | Johnson |
| ASSINATURA | JOHNSON D M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1505-6723 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A MAD method to assess idea novelty
A Classicist’s Comments
Sebell’s book provides an intense and insightful commentary on Memorabilia 4, built around the thesis that Xenophon’s central goal is to point good readers toward the theological solution to the problem of politics. That thesis is not overt in the Memorabilia itself, so the bulk of Sebell’s book is devoted to showing how better sorts of readers benefit from thinking through arguments originally addressed to a decidedly limited Socratic interlocut…
Doing all things for God's glory, acting so that it is God who acts
This article accomplishes two things. First, it explores and defends Kierkegaard's distinctive solution to the Problem of Total Devotion, a problem which has been helpfully identified by Robert Adams. Second, it extends that solution by advancing an interpretation of the command to do all things to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31) according to which we are being commanded to intentionally make every one of our actions such that it simultane…
Xenophon’s Socratic Works
Xenophon’s Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is an indispensable source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of Socrates. David M. Johnson restores Xenophon’s most ambitious Socratic work, the Memorabilia (Socratic Recollections), to its original literary context, enabling readers to experience it as Xenophon’s original audience would have, rather than as a pale imitati…
Xenophon’s Apology and Memorabilia
Landsat-8
Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short wave, and thermal infrared. Landsat 8 extends the remarkable 40 year Landsat record and has enhanced capabilities including new spectral bands in the blue and cirrus cloud-detection portion of the spectrum, two thermal bands, improved sensor signal-to-noise performance and ass…
B-theory old and new
Strauss on Xenophon
The author examines and to some extent defends Strauss?s interpretation of one key Xenophontic passage. The chapter begins with an account of Strauss?s approach to Xenophon, starting with Strauss?s declaration of his fondness for Xenophon in the recently published letters he wrote to Jacob Klein. Then, it turns to a case study, Memorabilia 4.4 , which has been the object of considerable study of late, and discusses issues of particular concern to…
Social Morality and Social Misfits
There is a remarkable and surprising connection to be found between an argument of Søren Kierkegaard's and one of Zhuangzi's—what I call the ‘social misfit’ critique. I will argue that this connection highlights a hitherto unacknowledged parallel between the moral thought of their respective targets: Hegel in the case of Kierkegaard and Confucius in the case of Zhuangzi. Specifically, it reveals a significant parallel between Hegel's movement fro…
The Objectivity of Obligations in Divine Motivation Theory
To support her divine motivation theory of the good, which seeks to ground ethics in motives and emphasize the attractiveness of morality over against the compulsion of morality, Linda Zagzebski has proposed an original account of obligations which grounds them in motives. I argue that her account renders obligations objectionably person‐relative and that the most promising way to avoid my criticism is to embrace something quite close to a divine…
Mozi's Moral Theory
The most significant contemporary controversy surrounding the thought of Mozi is the debate over his ultimate criterion of right action—whether he should be interpreted as a divine-will theorist or as a utilitarian. It is possible, at least on the surface, to interpret him either way. I consider arguments designed to break this hermeneutical stalemate and argue that the divine-will interpretation comes out ahead. I conclude by responding to an ar…
Proper function and defeating experiences
Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, Volume II
Aristippus at the Crossroads
In two passages from Xenophon’s Memorabilia, Socrates refutes Aristippus, first by a rather brutal brand of Realpolitik (2.1), then by refusing to answer Aristippus’ questions about the good and the beautiful (3.8). This article argues that the nasty politics that emerge in Memorabilia 2.1 are not Socratic, but rather the natural consequence of Aristippean hedonism. Political considerations of another sort drive Socrates’ tactics in Memorabilia 3…
Kelvin and Hobs
Herodotus' Storytelling Speeches
Some bats re-enter their cave while using echolocation at very high speeds, but this behavior is poorly studied. Thermal imaging and an array of ultrasonic microphones were used to investigate the acoustic adaptations made during high-speed re-entry for single bats entering a cave. There was a significant overall effect between bat, distance to the ground, and its flight speed on pulse duration and interpulse interval (IPI). The data imply that o…
Humor
Observations About Students and Class Size
Discussion Thread: Students. The following are some comments I have circulated recently concering some of my observations ( and frustrations!) with our undergraduate students and what happens when class sizes get bigger. I welcome feedback from others as to whether these characteristics are idiosyncratic to my institution or arefound more generally.
Hesiod's Descriptions of Tartarus ("Theogony" 721-819)
SUSPECTED INTERPOLATIONS ARE, whatever their other uses, a good indication of scholarly unease, and by this measure Hesiod's account of the underworld (Theogony 721-819) has left scholars more puzzled than most passages in what is, all told, a rather puzzling poem. This unease has continued to affect the great modern editors of the text: West (1966: 50) believed that the passage provided the best evidence for archaic interpolations in the Theogon…
Justice and Peace Education
Journal Article Justice and Peace Education: Models for College and University Faculty edited by David M. Johnson. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1986, viii + 248 pp. $16.95 Get access Madeleine Adriance Madeleine Adriance Mount Ida College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 306–307, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711571 Published: 01 October 1989
Religion, Health and Healing
During the last decade the traditional Christian practice of faith healing has reemerged in a number of mainline denominations. Most of the recent social science investigation of faith healing has been qualitative in nature. The present study explored faith healing practices in the context of a larger survey research project on education and health care. A sample of 586 adult respondents in the Richmond, VA SMSA were asked about their use of pray…
Black Migration in America
Black Migration in America
Critique [of Fascism
To quote the cartoon character Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” The key strength in Forbes' analysis of fascism is his wide-ranging historical sweep and the way he shows that many elements in American character, such as prejudice against immigrants and eagerness for the spread of American ideas overseas, are related to fascistic tendencies throughout American history
Black Migration in America
Journal Article Black Migration in America: A Social Demographic History. By Daniel M. Johnson and Rex R. Campbell. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1981. viii + 190 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $16.75; paper, $8.95.) Get access James Borchert James Borchert University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 4, March…
Aristippus at the Crossroads
In two passages from Xenophon’s Memorabilia, Socrates refutes Aristippus, first by a rather brutal brand of Realpolitik (2.1), then by refusing to answer Aristippus’ questions about the good and the beautiful (3.8). This article argues that the nasty politics that emerge in Memorabilia 2.1 are not Socratic, but rather the natural consequence of Aristippean hedonism. Political considerations of another sort drive Socrates’ tactics in Memorabilia 3…
Disney World as Structure and Symbol
It has been said that the Disney theme parks are the cities America wishes it had; immune to death and taxes, clean, orderly, crime-free family style environments of optimism and nostalgia, politically independent, with the advantages but few of the vices of real cities. Treatments of the amusement park in political terms, such as Michael Harrington's Atlantic article, "To the disney Station," while invariably critical, indicate the important pos…
Hesiod's Descriptions of Tartarus ("Theogony" 721-819)
SUSPECTED INTERPOLATIONS ARE, whatever their other uses, a good indication of scholarly unease, and by this measure Hesiod's account of the underworld (Theogony 721-819) has left scholars more puzzled than most passages in what is, all told, a rather puzzling poem. This unease has continued to affect the great modern editors of the text: West (1966: 50) believed that the passage provided the best evidence for archaic interpolations in the Theogon…
Proper function and defeating experiences
Black migration in America
Community satisfaction of black return migrants to a southern metropolis
Basic objects in natural categories
Black migration in America
Disney World as Structure and Symbol
It has been said that the Disney theme parks are the cities America wishes it had; immune to death and taxes, clean, orderly, crime-free family style environments of optimism and nostalgia, politically independent, with the advantages but few of the vices of real cities. Treatments of the amusement park in political terms, such as Michael Harrington's Atlantic article, "To the disney Station," while invariably critical, indicate the important pos…
Critique [of Fascism
To quote the cartoon character Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” The key strength in Forbes' analysis of fascism is his wide-ranging historical sweep and the way he shows that many elements in American character, such as prejudice against immigrants and eagerness for the spread of American ideas overseas, are related to fascistic tendencies throughout American history
Black Migration in America
Journal Article Black Migration in America: A Social Demographic History. By Daniel M. Johnson and Rex R. Campbell. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1981. viii + 190 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $16.75; paper, $8.95.) Get access James Borchert James Borchert University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 4, March…
Black Migration in America
Black Migration in America
Religion, Health and Healing
During the last decade the traditional Christian practice of faith healing has reemerged in a number of mainline denominations. Most of the recent social science investigation of faith healing has been qualitative in nature. The present study explored faith healing practices in the context of a larger survey research project on education and health care. A sample of 586 adult respondents in the Richmond, VA SMSA were asked about their use of pray…
Justice and Peace Education
Journal Article Justice and Peace Education: Models for College and University Faculty edited by David M. Johnson. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1986, viii + 248 pp. $16.95 Get access Madeleine Adriance Madeleine Adriance Mount Ida College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 306–307, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711571 Published: 01 October 1989
Humor
Observations About Students and Class Size
Discussion Thread: Students. The following are some comments I have circulated recently concering some of my observations ( and frustrations!) with our undergraduate students and what happens when class sizes get bigger. I welcome feedback from others as to whether these characteristics are idiosyncratic to my institution or arefound more generally.
Hesiod's Descriptions of Tartarus ("Theogony" 721-819)
SUSPECTED INTERPOLATIONS ARE, whatever their other uses, a good indication of scholarly unease, and by this measure Hesiod's account of the underworld (Theogony 721-819) has left scholars more puzzled than most passages in what is, all told, a rather puzzling poem. This unease has continued to affect the great modern editors of the text: West (1966: 50) believed that the passage provided the best evidence for archaic interpolations in the Theogon…
Herodotus' Storytelling Speeches
Some bats re-enter their cave while using echolocation at very high speeds, but this behavior is poorly studied. Thermal imaging and an array of ultrasonic microphones were used to investigate the acoustic adaptations made during high-speed re-entry for single bats entering a cave. There was a significant overall effect between bat, distance to the ground, and its flight speed on pulse duration and interpulse interval (IPI). The data imply that o…
Kelvin and Hobs
Aristippus at the Crossroads
In two passages from Xenophon’s Memorabilia, Socrates refutes Aristippus, first by a rather brutal brand of Realpolitik (2.1), then by refusing to answer Aristippus’ questions about the good and the beautiful (3.8). This article argues that the nasty politics that emerge in Memorabilia 2.1 are not Socratic, but rather the natural consequence of Aristippean hedonism. Political considerations of another sort drive Socrates’ tactics in Memorabilia 3…
Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, Volume II
Mozi's Moral Theory
The most significant contemporary controversy surrounding the thought of Mozi is the debate over his ultimate criterion of right action—whether he should be interpreted as a divine-will theorist or as a utilitarian. It is possible, at least on the surface, to interpret him either way. I consider arguments designed to break this hermeneutical stalemate and argue that the divine-will interpretation comes out ahead. I conclude by responding to an ar…
Proper function and defeating experiences
Strauss on Xenophon
The author examines and to some extent defends Strauss?s interpretation of one key Xenophontic passage. The chapter begins with an account of Strauss?s approach to Xenophon, starting with Strauss?s declaration of his fondness for Xenophon in the recently published letters he wrote to Jacob Klein. Then, it turns to a case study, Memorabilia 4.4 , which has been the object of considerable study of late, and discusses issues of particular concern to…
Social Morality and Social Misfits
There is a remarkable and surprising connection to be found between an argument of Søren Kierkegaard's and one of Zhuangzi's—what I call the ‘social misfit’ critique. I will argue that this connection highlights a hitherto unacknowledged parallel between the moral thought of their respective targets: Hegel in the case of Kierkegaard and Confucius in the case of Zhuangzi. Specifically, it reveals a significant parallel between Hegel's movement fro…
The Objectivity of Obligations in Divine Motivation Theory
To support her divine motivation theory of the good, which seeks to ground ethics in motives and emphasize the attractiveness of morality over against the compulsion of morality, Linda Zagzebski has proposed an original account of obligations which grounds them in motives. I argue that her account renders obligations objectionably person‐relative and that the most promising way to avoid my criticism is to embrace something quite close to a divine…
B-theory old and new
Landsat-8
Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short wave, and thermal infrared. Landsat 8 extends the remarkable 40 year Landsat record and has enhanced capabilities including new spectral bands in the blue and cirrus cloud-detection portion of the spectrum, two thermal bands, improved sensor signal-to-noise performance and ass…
Xenophon’s Apology and Memorabilia
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