Sean Kelsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Kelsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelsey |
| SIGNATURE | KELSEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Buckingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Colonialist intervention in a metropolitan revolution
This article presents findings from a fresh examination of a familiar source, shedding new light on the creation of one of the best-known contemporary accounts of the 1641 Irish uprising. It is argued that a text usually regarded as the work of Henry Jones, dean of Kilmore, ought to be understood as the intellectual property of both a team of authors and their sponsors, a New English faction at Dublin Castle with long-standing ambitions to crush …
Instrumenting the trial of Charles I
This article argues that the legal instruments for the trial of Charles I support and strengthen the argument that regicide was neither the inevitable, nor even the intended outcome of those famous proceedings.
Color, Transparency, and Light in Aristotle
Aristotle says that it is in the nature of color to impart movement to transparent media. Typically this is interpreted as implying that these media must be transparent (in fulfillment) before color moves them. I argue that this is a mistake
King Charls His Case
Charles I was put to death without having pleaded to the charges preferred against him during his trial. This article examines the case that his prosecutor later said he would have opened, had the king entered a plea. John Cook's case was predictably forthright in its denunciation of the accused. On the other hand, it has some highly significant omissions; some of it was legally and factually hopeless, and much of the rest invited fairly obvious …
A Riposte to Clive Holmes, ‘The Trial and Execution of Charles I’
In a number of articles and essays, I have questioned whether regicide was the intended outcome of the trial of Charles I. Although initially well received, my scholarship has since come in for criticism from Clive Holmes. This article is one part of my response. It shows that Holmes has misunderstood my arguments about what the trial of Charles I was intended to achieve and has focused on a handful of sources which are peripheral to my case. Mea…
The Now King of England’
Recent years have witnessed a vigorous debate as to whether the trial of Charles I was ever intended to end in regicide. But, even for historians who have questioned whether it was, the king’s execution generally remains the inevitable outcome of those proceedings: whatever his judges may have intended, there had been no real prospect that the king might actually accept the opportunity he was afforded to save his own life by submitting to them. T…
Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science
Aristotle argued that in theory one could acquire knowledge of the natural world. But he did not stop there; he put his theories into practice. This volume of new essays shows how Aristotle's natural science and philosophical theories shed light on one another. The contributors engage with both biological and non-biological scientific works and with a wide variety of theoretical works, including Physics, Generation and Corruption, On the Soul, an…
Aristotle on interpreting nature
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Truth and value in Plato's Republic
This paper is a reaction to a recent article by Raphael Woolf, the drift of which is that, according to the Republic , truth as such is not important. I am not persuaded and in what follows I try to get clear about why.
Hylomorphism in Aristotle’s Physics
The Place of I 7 in the Argument of Physics I
Aristotle introduces Physics I as an inquiry into principles; in this paper I ask where he argues for the position he reaches in I 7. Many hold that his definitive argument is found in the first half of I 7 itself; I argue that this view is mistaken: the considerations raised there do not form the basis of any self-standing argument for Aristotle's doctrine of principles, but rather play a subordinate role in a larger argument begun in earnest in…
King of the Sea’
From their outset, the prince of Wales played a politically and symbolically significant part in the English civil wars. But from mid‐1646, with Charles I in the hands of his enemies, primary responsibility for the military and diplomatic aspirations of the House of Stuart devolved almost entirely upon the king's eldest son. Indeed, this essential fact was central to the king's own strategic thinking because he had persuaded himself that his oppo…
Aristotle Physics I 8
Aristotle's thesis in Physics I 8 is that a certain old and familiar problem about coming to be can only be solved with the help of the new account of the "principles" he has developed in Physics I 7. This is a strong thesis and the literature on the chapter does not quite do it justice; specifically, as things now stand we are left wondering why Aristotle should have found this problem so compelling in the first place. In this paper I develop an…
Politics and Procedure in the Trial of Charles I
In the autumn and winter of 1648, England descended into a domestic political crisis unparalleled at any time in the country's history before or since. At Newport on the Isle of Wight, representatives from both Houses of Parliament straggled to conclude a treaty with their king that would end years of civil war and restore some semblance of political order. But many Englishmen trembled to contemplate the consequences of negotiated settlement with…
Aristotle’S Definition of Nature
Aristotle’s definition of nature suggests that the special mark of natural things (by contrast with artefacts) is that they have an internal principle of movement. In this paper I ask what this doctrine really amounts to: what does Aristotle think is the difference between natural things and artefacts? This is not usually felt to be very difficult: ‘The difference is that natural things have an internal principle of movement.’ But the question is…
Constructing the Council of State
The Trial of Charles I
The trial of Charles I was no mere prelude to regicide. It was far more important than that. The principal objective of the famous proceedings in the great hall of Westminster was to persuade the king to abdicate his constitutional pre‐eminence in return for his life and his throne. The king's judges appear to have recognized the enormous strategic and political dangers inherent to regicide, and to have appreciated the potential advantages in rea…
The Ordinance for the trial of Charles I
During the English civil wars, parliament passed legislation in the form of ordinances - statute laws not requiring the king's assent. In late December 1648 a rump house of commons drafted an Ordinance for the trial of Charles I. Its rejection by the house of lords prompted the Commons to assume the power to legislate alone. The abortive Ordinance and the more famous Act for the trial of the king differ in ways which lend minor additional insight…
Housing Parliament
The Death of Charles I
By the winter of 1648–9, demands for retributive justice on Charles I and his supporters had built to a crescendo. But regicide was generally regarded as an extremely bad idea, and the king's trial was contrived as a final bid for peaceful settlement, not a prelude to king-killing. In return for a place at the heart of a new constitutional order, Charles I was required to abdicate his negative voice by pleading to charges brought on the sole auth…
The Age of Faction
The Trial of Charles I
The trial of Charles I was no mere prelude to regicide. It was far more important than that. The principal objective of the famous proceedings in the great hall of Westminster was to persuade the king to abdicate his constitutional pre‐eminence in return for his life and his throne. The king's judges appear to have recognized the enormous strategic and political dangers inherent to regicide, and to have appreciated the potential advantages in rea…
The Death of Charles I
By the winter of 1648–9, demands for retributive justice on Charles I and his supporters had built to a crescendo. But regicide was generally regarded as an extremely bad idea, and the king's trial was contrived as a final bid for peaceful settlement, not a prelude to king-killing. In return for a place at the heart of a new constitutional order, Charles I was required to abdicate his negative voice by pleading to charges brought on the sole auth…
Politics and Procedure in the Trial of Charles I
In the autumn and winter of 1648, England descended into a domestic political crisis unparalleled at any time in the country's history before or since. At Newport on the Isle of Wight, representatives from both Houses of Parliament straggled to conclude a treaty with their king that would end years of civil war and restore some semblance of political order. But many Englishmen trembled to contemplate the consequences of negotiated settlement with…
A Riposte to Clive Holmes, ‘The Trial and Execution of Charles I’
In a number of articles and essays, I have questioned whether regicide was the intended outcome of the trial of Charles I. Although initially well received, my scholarship has since come in for criticism from Clive Holmes. This article is one part of my response. It shows that Holmes has misunderstood my arguments about what the trial of Charles I was intended to achieve and has focused on a handful of sources which are peripheral to my case. Mea…
King of the Sea’
From their outset, the prince of Wales played a politically and symbolically significant part in the English civil wars. But from mid‐1646, with Charles I in the hands of his enemies, primary responsibility for the military and diplomatic aspirations of the House of Stuart devolved almost entirely upon the king's eldest son. Indeed, this essential fact was central to the king's own strategic thinking because he had persuaded himself that his oppo…
Aristotle Physics I 8
Aristotle's thesis in Physics I 8 is that a certain old and familiar problem about coming to be can only be solved with the help of the new account of the "principles" he has developed in Physics I 7. This is a strong thesis and the literature on the chapter does not quite do it justice; specifically, as things now stand we are left wondering why Aristotle should have found this problem so compelling in the first place. In this paper I develop an…
Constructing the Council of State
The Age of Faction
Housing Parliament
The Death of Charles I
By the winter of 1648–9, demands for retributive justice on Charles I and his supporters had built to a crescendo. But regicide was generally regarded as an extremely bad idea, and the king's trial was contrived as a final bid for peaceful settlement, not a prelude to king-killing. In return for a place at the heart of a new constitutional order, Charles I was required to abdicate his negative voice by pleading to charges brought on the sole auth…
Aristotle’S Definition of Nature
Aristotle’s definition of nature suggests that the special mark of natural things (by contrast with artefacts) is that they have an internal principle of movement. In this paper I ask what this doctrine really amounts to: what does Aristotle think is the difference between natural things and artefacts? This is not usually felt to be very difficult: ‘The difference is that natural things have an internal principle of movement.’ But the question is…
Constructing the Council of State
The Trial of Charles I
The trial of Charles I was no mere prelude to regicide. It was far more important than that. The principal objective of the famous proceedings in the great hall of Westminster was to persuade the king to abdicate his constitutional pre‐eminence in return for his life and his throne. The king's judges appear to have recognized the enormous strategic and political dangers inherent to regicide, and to have appreciated the potential advantages in rea…
The Ordinance for the trial of Charles I
During the English civil wars, parliament passed legislation in the form of ordinances - statute laws not requiring the king's assent. In late December 1648 a rump house of commons drafted an Ordinance for the trial of Charles I. Its rejection by the house of lords prompted the Commons to assume the power to legislate alone. The abortive Ordinance and the more famous Act for the trial of the king differ in ways which lend minor additional insight…
Politics and Procedure in the Trial of Charles I
In the autumn and winter of 1648, England descended into a domestic political crisis unparalleled at any time in the country's history before or since. At Newport on the Isle of Wight, representatives from both Houses of Parliament straggled to conclude a treaty with their king that would end years of civil war and restore some semblance of political order. But many Englishmen trembled to contemplate the consequences of negotiated settlement with…
Aristotle Physics I 8
Aristotle's thesis in Physics I 8 is that a certain old and familiar problem about coming to be can only be solved with the help of the new account of the "principles" he has developed in Physics I 7. This is a strong thesis and the literature on the chapter does not quite do it justice; specifically, as things now stand we are left wondering why Aristotle should have found this problem so compelling in the first place. In this paper I develop an…
King of the Sea’
From their outset, the prince of Wales played a politically and symbolically significant part in the English civil wars. But from mid‐1646, with Charles I in the hands of his enemies, primary responsibility for the military and diplomatic aspirations of the House of Stuart devolved almost entirely upon the king's eldest son. Indeed, this essential fact was central to the king's own strategic thinking because he had persuaded himself that his oppo…
The Place of I 7 in the Argument of Physics I
Aristotle introduces Physics I as an inquiry into principles; in this paper I ask where he argues for the position he reaches in I 7. Many hold that his definitive argument is found in the first half of I 7 itself; I argue that this view is mistaken: the considerations raised there do not form the basis of any self-standing argument for Aristotle's doctrine of principles, but rather play a subordinate role in a larger argument begun in earnest in…
Hylomorphism in Aristotle’s Physics
Truth and value in Plato's Republic
This paper is a reaction to a recent article by Raphael Woolf, the drift of which is that, according to the Republic , truth as such is not important. I am not persuaded and in what follows I try to get clear about why.
Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science
Aristotle argued that in theory one could acquire knowledge of the natural world. But he did not stop there; he put his theories into practice. This volume of new essays shows how Aristotle's natural science and philosophical theories shed light on one another. The contributors engage with both biological and non-biological scientific works and with a wide variety of theoretical works, including Physics, Generation and Corruption, On the Soul, an…
Aristotle on interpreting nature
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Now King of England’
Recent years have witnessed a vigorous debate as to whether the trial of Charles I was ever intended to end in regicide. But, even for historians who have questioned whether it was, the king’s execution generally remains the inevitable outcome of those proceedings: whatever his judges may have intended, there had been no real prospect that the king might actually accept the opportunity he was afforded to save his own life by submitting to them. T…
Color, Transparency, and Light in Aristotle
Aristotle says that it is in the nature of color to impart movement to transparent media. Typically this is interpreted as implying that these media must be transparent (in fulfillment) before color moves them. I argue that this is a mistake
King Charls His Case
Charles I was put to death without having pleaded to the charges preferred against him during his trial. This article examines the case that his prosecutor later said he would have opened, had the king entered a plea. John Cook's case was predictably forthright in its denunciation of the accused. On the other hand, it has some highly significant omissions; some of it was legally and factually hopeless, and much of the rest invited fairly obvious …
A Riposte to Clive Holmes, ‘The Trial and Execution of Charles I’
In a number of articles and essays, I have questioned whether regicide was the intended outcome of the trial of Charles I. Although initially well received, my scholarship has since come in for criticism from Clive Holmes. This article is one part of my response. It shows that Holmes has misunderstood my arguments about what the trial of Charles I was intended to achieve and has focused on a handful of sources which are peripheral to my case. Mea…
Instrumenting the trial of Charles I
This article argues that the legal instruments for the trial of Charles I support and strengthen the argument that regicide was neither the inevitable, nor even the intended outcome of those famous proceedings.
Colonialist intervention in a metropolitan revolution
This article presents findings from a fresh examination of a familiar source, shedding new light on the creation of one of the best-known contemporary accounts of the 1641 Irish uprising. It is argued that a text usually regarded as the work of Henry Jones, dean of Kilmore, ought to be understood as the intellectual property of both a team of authors and their sponsors, a New English faction at Dublin Castle with long-standing ambitions to crush …
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