Matthew K Reising
Biographic Data
| ID | 1603143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew K Reising |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew K |
| FAMILY NAME | Reising |
| SIGNATURE | REISING M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6028-969X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Myth of Left and Right
A Testament to Hope
Aquinas on the Socratic Paradox and the Problem of Virtue
In Natural Reason and Natural Law, James Carey states that, for Aquinas, the good is pursued necessarily as according to the first principle of practical reason, but then makes the stunning admission that humans really seem to almost always pursue 'the best'. Such an admission opens Thomistic natural law to an attack from the Socratic paradox that all evil stems from ignorance, a philosophical premise that implicitly undermines all moral responsi…
The Dialectical Foundations of the Natural Law in Aquinas’s De Ente et Essentia
The King’s House or the Tyrant’s Palace? Rethinking Persia in Herodotus’s History
This article contributes to the scholarly movement beyond rigid classifications of East and West by arguing that the Persia of Herodotus’s History, commonly understood to be a tyrannical regime, possessed both external and internal freedom. It was once common to argue that, for Herodotus, internal freedom was the exclusive purview of the Greeks. Recent scholarship has shown that Herodotus laced the History with several incriminating parallels bet…
Rethinking Intellectual Ecumenism in Interfaith Debates on God's Existence
precis: Scholars have long contended that Aquinas managed to escape the devastating critique launched by Averroes against the being/essence distinction by reimagining being/essence according to an analogy of act/potency rather than Avicenna's model of accident/substance. This essay complicates the scholarly consensus that Aquinas defined his metaphysical thought on being and essence against the philosophy of Averroes and instead argues that Aquin…
James Otis and the Glorious Revolution in America
In his 1764 tract The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved James Otis provides an argument for colonial rights that depends in part on his view that the Glorious Revolution constituted a dissolution and reestablishment of the whole imperial constitution, a reestablishment in which all subjects of the British Empire participated. Scholars have long questioned the historical validity of Otis’s claim, arguing that he misunderstood the …
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James Otis and the Glorious Revolution in America
In his 1764 tract The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved James Otis provides an argument for colonial rights that depends in part on his view that the Glorious Revolution constituted a dissolution and reestablishment of the whole imperial constitution, a reestablishment in which all subjects of the British Empire participated. Scholars have long questioned the historical validity of Otis’s claim, arguing that he misunderstood the …
Aquinas on the Socratic Paradox and the Problem of Virtue
In Natural Reason and Natural Law, James Carey states that, for Aquinas, the good is pursued necessarily as according to the first principle of practical reason, but then makes the stunning admission that humans really seem to almost always pursue 'the best'. Such an admission opens Thomistic natural law to an attack from the Socratic paradox that all evil stems from ignorance, a philosophical premise that implicitly undermines all moral responsi…
The Dialectical Foundations of the Natural Law in Aquinas’s De Ente et Essentia
The King’s House or the Tyrant’s Palace? Rethinking Persia in Herodotus’s History
This article contributes to the scholarly movement beyond rigid classifications of East and West by arguing that the Persia of Herodotus’s History, commonly understood to be a tyrannical regime, possessed both external and internal freedom. It was once common to argue that, for Herodotus, internal freedom was the exclusive purview of the Greeks. Recent scholarship has shown that Herodotus laced the History with several incriminating parallels bet…
Rethinking Intellectual Ecumenism in Interfaith Debates on God's Existence
precis: Scholars have long contended that Aquinas managed to escape the devastating critique launched by Averroes against the being/essence distinction by reimagining being/essence according to an analogy of act/potency rather than Avicenna's model of accident/substance. This essay complicates the scholarly consensus that Aquinas defined his metaphysical thought on being and essence against the philosophy of Averroes and instead argues that Aquin…
The Myth of Left and Right
A Testament to Hope
Philosophy (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (2 works) · Medieval Philosophy and Theology (2 works)