Nathaniel K Gilmore
Biographic Data
| ID | 2789240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathaniel K Gilmore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathaniel K |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilmore |
| SIGNATURE | GILMORE N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3143-7884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Economics and the human condition
Karl Polanyi rests his critique of modern society—the market society—on a certain view of political life and the human condition. This paper explores that view by tracing Polanyi’s debts to the two pre-market-society authors that he admires most: Aristotle and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. For Polanyi, human beings are social animals whose supreme end is freedom, and he thinks that political science’s supreme purpose is to help realise a free political …
The Spirit of the Legislator
This article traces Montesquieu’s thoughts on legislative education, the foremost subject in The Spirit of the Laws . Returning to his unfinished, final mature work, the Essay on Taste , it follows the relationship between reason and art as Montesquieu theorizes and practices it; doing so, the article examines, in a new light, three related, difficult subjects: the forms of legislation; the mysterious summit of the Laws , Book XXIX; and the autho…
Venus's Temple
Liberty is Montesquieu's decisive political good, and so contemporary scholarship often debates which political path he thought best to secure it. But as for why liberty is good, most scholars leave that question unexamined. In this article I argue that Montesquieu justifies liberty and politics by a romantic hedonism, and we understand this hedonism if we compare him to the ancient hedonist he most admired, Lucretius. Uniting Montesquieu's best-…
The leviathan and the chimera
In his political thought, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy’s premier jurist, Gian Vincenzo Gravina, adopted a Hobbesian state of nature, a Hobbesian social contract, and a Hobbesian idea of law as collective will; he fused these ideas with the Roman legal tradition, a tradition that he trained in and later ordered when he wrote his masterpiece, the Three Books on the Origins of the Civil Law. But Gravina was more than a Roman Hobbesian. …
Montesquieu's Considerations on the State of Europe
In 1748 Montesquieu simultaneously published his immense Spirit of the Laws and republished his brief Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline. Both the date of publication and the evidence of the texts themselves correct contemporary scholars' tendency to discount the status of the Considerations as the unique partner of the Laws. Reading the two works together illuminates Montesquieu's account of the state, …
Montesquieu's Teaching on the Dangers of Extreme Corrections
Explicitly and implicitly inThe Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu binds together the Japanese who persecute Christians and the Inquisitors of Catholicism who persecute heretics. In seeking purity, both sets of vehement reformers impose atrocious punishments. In so binding the abuses of the East and West together, the work is an expression neither of Orientalism nor of Eurocentrism as conventionally understood. Although Montesquieu thus offers a cri…
Montesquieu's Teaching on the Dangers of Extreme Corrections
Explicitly and implicitly inThe Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu binds together the Japanese who persecute Christians and the Inquisitors of Catholicism who persecute heretics. In seeking purity, both sets of vehement reformers impose atrocious punishments. In so binding the abuses of the East and West together, the work is an expression neither of Orientalism nor of Eurocentrism as conventionally understood. Although Montesquieu thus offers a cri…
Montesquieu's Teaching on the Dangers of Extreme Corrections
Explicitly and implicitly inThe Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu binds together the Japanese who persecute Christians and the Inquisitors of Catholicism who persecute heretics. In seeking purity, both sets of vehement reformers impose atrocious punishments. In so binding the abuses of the East and West together, the work is an expression neither of Orientalism nor of Eurocentrism as conventionally understood. Although Montesquieu thus offers a cri…
Montesquieu's Considerations on the State of Europe
In 1748 Montesquieu simultaneously published his immense Spirit of the Laws and republished his brief Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline. Both the date of publication and the evidence of the texts themselves correct contemporary scholars' tendency to discount the status of the Considerations as the unique partner of the Laws. Reading the two works together illuminates Montesquieu's account of the state, …
The leviathan and the chimera
In his political thought, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italy’s premier jurist, Gian Vincenzo Gravina, adopted a Hobbesian state of nature, a Hobbesian social contract, and a Hobbesian idea of law as collective will; he fused these ideas with the Roman legal tradition, a tradition that he trained in and later ordered when he wrote his masterpiece, the Three Books on the Origins of the Civil Law. But Gravina was more than a Roman Hobbesian. …
Venus's Temple
Liberty is Montesquieu's decisive political good, and so contemporary scholarship often debates which political path he thought best to secure it. But as for why liberty is good, most scholars leave that question unexamined. In this article I argue that Montesquieu justifies liberty and politics by a romantic hedonism, and we understand this hedonism if we compare him to the ancient hedonist he most admired, Lucretius. Uniting Montesquieu's best-…
The Spirit of the Legislator
This article traces Montesquieu’s thoughts on legislative education, the foremost subject in The Spirit of the Laws . Returning to his unfinished, final mature work, the Essay on Taste , it follows the relationship between reason and art as Montesquieu theorizes and practices it; doing so, the article examines, in a new light, three related, difficult subjects: the forms of legislation; the mysterious summit of the Laws , Book XXIX; and the autho…
Economics and the human condition
Karl Polanyi rests his critique of modern society—the market society—on a certain view of political life and the human condition. This paper explores that view by tracing Polanyi’s debts to the two pre-market-society authors that he admires most: Aristotle and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. For Polanyi, human beings are social animals whose supreme end is freedom, and he thinks that political science’s supreme purpose is to help realise a free political …
American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · European Political History Analysis (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Political Theory and Influence (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Economics (2 works)