Christopher Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1904 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philosophy and Autobiography: Reflections on Truth, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others
Living Philosophy: Reflections on Life, Meaning and Morality
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614189);The mystery of birth and death, of fate and destiny, of the nature of wisdom, and of the meaning of life itself have preoccupied philosophers since time immemorial.Some of the perplexities of our moral life form the basis of Christopher Hamilton's book. In a series of original and perceptive philosophical essays - including those on 'Birth and Death', 'Virtue and Human Flourishing', 'The Need to S…
‘Frail worms of the earth’: Philosophical reflections on the meaning of life
Many philosophers in the analytic tradition have recently sought to explore the question of the meaning of life. In the first part of this article I subject two important approaches from this tradition – those of John Cottingham and Susan Wolf – to criticism. I then suggest that Cottingham and Wolf articulate certain assumptions about the meaning of life that are widely shared amongst analytic philosophers. I go on to subject those assumptions to…
Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900: Longing, Enchantment and the Material Subject
The aim of this paper is to offer an interpretation of Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900 (Berlin Childhood Around 1900). Exploring the style and the content of Benjamin's text, both of which portray the world of his childhood as a place of enchantment, I suggest that Benjamin creates in this text a conception of the self as displaced into the surrounding material world. I argue that, in doing this, Benjamin seeks to explore the material…
Humanity, Animality, and Philosophy in Primo Levi
The legacy of antifascist partisan, Auschwitz survivor, and author Primo Levi continues to drive exciting interdisciplinary scholarship. The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied as ethics, memory, and media studies
A Philosophy of Tragedy
A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, as have countless characters in literature, and the modern age places us squarely before it: the sheer contingency and instability of our existence, our homelessness, our unredeemed suffering, our fractured relation to morality.Christopher Hamilton draws as much on literature, including the tragic theatre, as on philosophy to offer a stirring account of …
Alexander Pruss on Love and the Meaningfulness of Sex
In this essay I explore Alexander Pruss' conceptions of love and sexual desire. I argue that he fails to provide a convincing account of either and that one reason for this is that he ignores far too much relevant material in philosophy and the arts that needs to be taken into account in a thorough investigation of such matters. I argue further that Pruss' understanding of love and sex is highly moralized, meaning that his discussion is not at al…
Moralism: A Study of a Vice
Journal Article Moralism: A Study of a Vice Get access Moralism: A Study of a Vice. By Taylor Craig. (Durham: Acumen, 2012. Pp. xi + 187. Price £14.99) Christopher Hamilton Christopher Hamilton King's College London, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 255, April 2014, Pages 349–352, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqt041 Publis…
Who is my Neighbor? Turner v. Clayton: A Watershed Moment in Regional Education
There would be a watershed of students from the city and from Riverview Gardens just descending upon all St. Louis County schools, and we would have no ability to turn them away.-Chris Tennill, Chief Communications Officer, Clayton Public Schools (Adolphy, 2010, para. 11)School accreditation is granted by states to local districts to certify their competency and authority to provide a K-12 education. An unaccredited school district does not have …
Guilt and Original Sin
The aim of the article is to suggest that there are two key ways in which it might be plausible to suppose that human beings are fallen or tainted by original sin even if one rejects Christian belief. The first I develop by reflection on the innocence of animals and human infants, contrasting their condition with that of adult human beings. I go on to suggest that we adult human beings are self-thwarting creatures, necessarily unable to enter, as…
Minority stress, masculinity, and social norms predicting gay men's health risk behaviors.
The authors examined the contributions of the minority stress model, traditional masculine gender roles, and perceived social norms in accounting for gay men’s use of alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and risky sexual practices. Three hundred fifteen gay men recruited from listserv communities completed measures assessing internalized homophobia, stigma, antigay physical attack, masculinity, and perceptions of normative health behaviors, along wit…
Enjoyment: The Moral Significance of Styles of Life
By John Kekes Clarendon Press, 2008. Pp. x+304. ISBN 978–0–19–954692–3. £30.00 (hbk). Philosophers tend to take themselves seriously – too seriously – and they like talking about duty and obligatio
Power, Punishment and Reconciliation in the Political and Social Thought of Simone Weil
The aim of this article is to explore some aspects of the significance of Simone Weil's work for the question of reconciliation. Focusing on Weil's notion of power, and investigating its plausibility, the article argues that her thinking is less useful than is sometimes supposed for grounding a cosmopolitan ethic. It further argues that Weil's philosophical outlook, with its emphasis on loving everything that happens as an expression of God's wil…
Nietzsche and the murder of God
Nietzsche's tortured relationship to the Christian God has received scant attention from commentators. In this paper I seek to map out the central lines a proper understanding of Nietzsche in this regard might take. I argue that fundamental in such an understanding is Nietzsche's profoundly corporeal moral vocabulary, and I trace connections between this vocabulary and Nietzsche's concern with cleanliness, his asceticism, and the notion of a sens…
Simone Weil's “Human Personality”: Between the Personal and the Impersonal
Simone Weil's essay “La personne et le sacré,” known in English as “Human Personality,” is a remarkable piece of philosophy that has not, I think, received as much attention as it deserves among analytic philosophers. And when it has been discussed by such philosophers, they have not always gotten to the root of its oddities and peculiar interest. Granted, it is in some ways extremely difficult to translate Weil's approach to her themes into the …
Living philosophy: Reflections on Life, Meaning, and Morality
On Birth and Death
J. Kellenberger. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Faith and Eternal Acceptance . Library of Philosophy & Religion. (London, Macmillan, 1997.) Pp ix+150. £40 hb, £7.99 pb
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Kierkegaard on truth as subjectivity: Christianity, ethics and asceticism
This paper is an exploration and interpretation of Kierkegaard's account of Christian belief. I argue that Kierkegaard believed that the Christian metaphysical tradition was exhausted and hence that there could be no defence of belief in God in purely rational terms. I defend this interpretation against objections, going on to argue that Kierkegaard thought it possible to defend a post-metaphysical conception of religious belief. I argue that Kie…
Ethics and the Spirit
Virtue and Human Flourishing
Foreign and Colonial Systems of Poor Law Relief
The Poor Law Controversy
Philanthropy and the State
Notes on the Mosley Educational Commission
Who is my Neighbor? Turner v. Clayton: A Watershed Moment in Regional Education
There would be a watershed of students from the city and from Riverview Gardens just descending upon all St. Louis County schools, and we would have no ability to turn them away.-Chris Tennill, Chief Communications Officer, Clayton Public Schools (Adolphy, 2010, para. 11)School accreditation is granted by states to local districts to certify their competency and authority to provide a K-12 education. An unaccredited school district does not have …
Living Philosophy: Reflections on Life, Meaning and Morality
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614189);The mystery of birth and death, of fate and destiny, of the nature of wisdom, and of the meaning of life itself have preoccupied philosophers since time immemorial.Some of the perplexities of our moral life form the basis of Christopher Hamilton's book. In a series of original and perceptive philosophical essays - including those on 'Birth and Death', 'Virtue and Human Flourishing', 'The Need to S…
Power, Punishment and Reconciliation in the Political and Social Thought of Simone Weil
The aim of this article is to explore some aspects of the significance of Simone Weil's work for the question of reconciliation. Focusing on Weil's notion of power, and investigating its plausibility, the article argues that her thinking is less useful than is sometimes supposed for grounding a cosmopolitan ethic. It further argues that Weil's philosophical outlook, with its emphasis on loving everything that happens as an expression of God's wil…
Philanthropy and the State
Notes on the Mosley Educational Commission
Philanthropy and the State
The Poor Law Controversy
Foreign and Colonial Systems of Poor Law Relief
J. Kellenberger. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Faith and Eternal Acceptance . Library of Philosophy & Religion. (London, Macmillan, 1997.) Pp ix+150. £40 hb, £7.99 pb
An abstract 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
Kierkegaard on truth as subjectivity: Christianity, ethics and asceticism
This paper is an exploration and interpretation of Kierkegaard's account of Christian belief. I argue that Kierkegaard believed that the Christian metaphysical tradition was exhausted and hence that there could be no defence of belief in God in purely rational terms. I defend this interpretation against objections, going on to argue that Kierkegaard thought it possible to defend a post-metaphysical conception of religious belief. I argue that Kie…
Ethics and the Spirit
Virtue and Human Flourishing
On Birth and Death
Living philosophy: Reflections on Life, Meaning, and Morality
Simone Weil's “Human Personality”: Between the Personal and the Impersonal
Simone Weil's essay “La personne et le sacré,” known in English as “Human Personality,” is a remarkable piece of philosophy that has not, I think, received as much attention as it deserves among analytic philosophers. And when it has been discussed by such philosophers, they have not always gotten to the root of its oddities and peculiar interest. Granted, it is in some ways extremely difficult to translate Weil's approach to her themes into the …
Nietzsche and the murder of God
Nietzsche's tortured relationship to the Christian God has received scant attention from commentators. In this paper I seek to map out the central lines a proper understanding of Nietzsche in this regard might take. I argue that fundamental in such an understanding is Nietzsche's profoundly corporeal moral vocabulary, and I trace connections between this vocabulary and Nietzsche's concern with cleanliness, his asceticism, and the notion of a sens…
Power, Punishment and Reconciliation in the Political and Social Thought of Simone Weil
The aim of this article is to explore some aspects of the significance of Simone Weil's work for the question of reconciliation. Focusing on Weil's notion of power, and investigating its plausibility, the article argues that her thinking is less useful than is sometimes supposed for grounding a cosmopolitan ethic. It further argues that Weil's philosophical outlook, with its emphasis on loving everything that happens as an expression of God's wil…
Minority stress, masculinity, and social norms predicting gay men's health risk behaviors.
The authors examined the contributions of the minority stress model, traditional masculine gender roles, and perceived social norms in accounting for gay men’s use of alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and risky sexual practices. Three hundred fifteen gay men recruited from listserv communities completed measures assessing internalized homophobia, stigma, antigay physical attack, masculinity, and perceptions of normative health behaviors, along wit…
Enjoyment: The Moral Significance of Styles of Life
By John Kekes Clarendon Press, 2008. Pp. x+304. ISBN 978–0–19–954692–3. £30.00 (hbk). Philosophers tend to take themselves seriously – too seriously – and they like talking about duty and obligatio
Moralism: A Study of a Vice
Journal Article Moralism: A Study of a Vice Get access Moralism: A Study of a Vice. By Taylor Craig. (Durham: Acumen, 2012. Pp. xi + 187. Price £14.99) Christopher Hamilton Christopher Hamilton King's College London, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 255, April 2014, Pages 349–352, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqt041 Publis…
Who is my Neighbor? Turner v. Clayton: A Watershed Moment in Regional Education
There would be a watershed of students from the city and from Riverview Gardens just descending upon all St. Louis County schools, and we would have no ability to turn them away.-Chris Tennill, Chief Communications Officer, Clayton Public Schools (Adolphy, 2010, para. 11)School accreditation is granted by states to local districts to certify their competency and authority to provide a K-12 education. An unaccredited school district does not have …
Guilt and Original Sin
The aim of the article is to suggest that there are two key ways in which it might be plausible to suppose that human beings are fallen or tainted by original sin even if one rejects Christian belief. The first I develop by reflection on the innocence of animals and human infants, contrasting their condition with that of adult human beings. I go on to suggest that we adult human beings are self-thwarting creatures, necessarily unable to enter, as…
Alexander Pruss on Love and the Meaningfulness of Sex
In this essay I explore Alexander Pruss' conceptions of love and sexual desire. I argue that he fails to provide a convincing account of either and that one reason for this is that he ignores far too much relevant material in philosophy and the arts that needs to be taken into account in a thorough investigation of such matters. I argue further that Pruss' understanding of love and sex is highly moralized, meaning that his discussion is not at al…
Humanity, Animality, and Philosophy in Primo Levi
The legacy of antifascist partisan, Auschwitz survivor, and author Primo Levi continues to drive exciting interdisciplinary scholarship. The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied as ethics, memory, and media studies
A Philosophy of Tragedy
A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, as have countless characters in literature, and the modern age places us squarely before it: the sheer contingency and instability of our existence, our homelessness, our unredeemed suffering, our fractured relation to morality.Christopher Hamilton draws as much on literature, including the tragic theatre, as on philosophy to offer a stirring account of …
‘Frail worms of the earth’: Philosophical reflections on the meaning of life
Many philosophers in the analytic tradition have recently sought to explore the question of the meaning of life. In the first part of this article I subject two important approaches from this tradition – those of John Cottingham and Susan Wolf – to criticism. I then suggest that Cottingham and Wolf articulate certain assumptions about the meaning of life that are widely shared amongst analytic philosophers. I go on to subject those assumptions to…
Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900: Longing, Enchantment and the Material Subject
The aim of this paper is to offer an interpretation of Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900 (Berlin Childhood Around 1900). Exploring the style and the content of Benjamin's text, both of which portray the world of his childhood as a place of enchantment, I suggest that Benjamin creates in this text a conception of the self as displaced into the surrounding material world. I argue that, in doing this, Benjamin seeks to explore the material…
Living Philosophy: Reflections on Life, Meaning and Morality
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614189);The mystery of birth and death, of fate and destiny, of the nature of wisdom, and of the meaning of life itself have preoccupied philosophers since time immemorial.Some of the perplexities of our moral life form the basis of Christopher Hamilton's book. In a series of original and perceptive philosophical essays - including those on 'Birth and Death', 'Virtue and Human Flourishing', 'The Need to S…
Philosophy and Autobiography: Reflections on Truth, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others
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