Susan D Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan D Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Use of Greek History for Life: Josiah Ober's Athens and Paul Rahe's Sparta
Among contemporary scholars who write about classical Greece, Josiah Ober and Paul Rahe are especially adept at navigating the territory shared by history and political theory and illuminating the relevance of Greek history for our time. The historical approach each takes in the works under review does not easily fall into the categories—monumental, antiquarian, and critical history— delineated by Nietzsche in the essay to which my subtitle allud…
In the Beginning: The Socratic Turn in Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
Catherine Zuckert's Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues presents the dramatic order of the dialogues as the narrative arc of Socrates's philosophical investigations. Focusing on the opening chapters of the work, I consider the place in this dramatic order of Socrates's intellectual autobiography in the Phaedo , Symposium , and Apology and his famous turn from the study of the heavens to the study of the human things. I examine in…
Aristotle’s Political Science, Common Sense, and the Socratic Tradition in The City and Man
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship
Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship confronts a question that is central to Aristotle's political philosophy as well as to contemporary political theory: what is a citizen? Answers prove to be elusive, in part because late twentieth-century critiques of the Enlightenment called into doubt fundamental tenets that once guided us. Engaging the two major works of Aristotle's political philosophy, his Nicomachean Ethics and his Politics, Susa…
Ross M. Lence
On July 11, 2006, our distinguished colleague Ross M. Lence passed away. Ross had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August of 2005, and even in his most difficult moments this last year, he continued to grace our lives with his good cheer and to engage in that activity he most loved, teaching
A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics
A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics. By Jill Frank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 208p. $49.00 cloth, $19.00 paper. Jill Frank's book seeks to make Aristotle's political philosophy “available for democratic political practice” (p. 8). Her use of Aristotle in this regard resembles most closely that of Hannah Arendt, to whom she refers in her opening paragraph and whose treatment of work, action, and the vit…
Moral Virtue and the Limits of the Political Community in Aristotle'sNicomachean Ethics
The recovery of Aristotle's view of the political community as guardian of the common good and moral educator has fueled a continuing debate about civic education and virtue. In focusing on the relation of virtue to the common good and that of the individual, however, this debate has obscured Aristotle's insight into virtue's status as an independent end. I argue that by taking account of this dimension of virtue, Aristotle's discussion of the pa…
"Moral Virtue and the Limits of the Political Community in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics
The Challenge of Plato's Menexenus
Only recently have students of political theory begun to pay attention to Plato'sMenexenus, and it deserves this closer study. In this article, it is argued that the dialogue is best read as Plato's at least quasi—serious critique of Pericle' famous Funeral Oration, and that a comparison of these two works leads to a paradoxical discovery. For by presenting Socrates in theMenexenusas a defender of a restrained and traditional politics against the…
A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics
A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics. By Jill Frank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 208p. $49.00 cloth, $19.00 paper. Jill Frank's book seeks to make Aristotle's political philosophy “available for democratic political practice” (p. 8). Her use of Aristotle in this regard resembles most closely that of Hannah Arendt, to whom she refers in her opening paragraph and whose treatment of work, action, and the vit…
The Challenge of Plato's Menexenus
Only recently have students of political theory begun to pay attention to Plato'sMenexenus, and it deserves this closer study. In this article, it is argued that the dialogue is best read as Plato's at least quasi—serious critique of Pericle' famous Funeral Oration, and that a comparison of these two works leads to a paradoxical discovery. For by presenting Socrates in theMenexenusas a defender of a restrained and traditional politics against the…
Moral Virtue and the Limits of the Political Community in Aristotle'sNicomachean Ethics
The recovery of Aristotle's view of the political community as guardian of the common good and moral educator has fueled a continuing debate about civic education and virtue. In focusing on the relation of virtue to the common good and that of the individual, however, this debate has obscured Aristotle's insight into virtue's status as an independent end. I argue that by taking account of this dimension of virtue, Aristotle's discussion of the pa…
"Moral Virtue and the Limits of the Political Community in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics
On the Use of Greek History for Life: Josiah Ober's Athens and Paul Rahe's Sparta
Among contemporary scholars who write about classical Greece, Josiah Ober and Paul Rahe are especially adept at navigating the territory shared by history and political theory and illuminating the relevance of Greek history for our time. The historical approach each takes in the works under review does not easily fall into the categories—monumental, antiquarian, and critical history— delineated by Nietzsche in the essay to which my subtitle allud…
The Challenge of Plato's Menexenus
Only recently have students of political theory begun to pay attention to Plato'sMenexenus, and it deserves this closer study. In this article, it is argued that the dialogue is best read as Plato's at least quasi—serious critique of Pericle' famous Funeral Oration, and that a comparison of these two works leads to a paradoxical discovery. For by presenting Socrates in theMenexenusas a defender of a restrained and traditional politics against the…
Moral Virtue and the Limits of the Political Community in Aristotle'sNicomachean Ethics
The recovery of Aristotle's view of the political community as guardian of the common good and moral educator has fueled a continuing debate about civic education and virtue. In focusing on the relation of virtue to the common good and that of the individual, however, this debate has obscured Aristotle's insight into virtue's status as an independent end. I argue that by taking account of this dimension of virtue, Aristotle's discussion of the pa…
"Moral Virtue and the Limits of the Political Community in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics
A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics
A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics. By Jill Frank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 208p. $49.00 cloth, $19.00 paper. Jill Frank's book seeks to make Aristotle's political philosophy “available for democratic political practice” (p. 8). Her use of Aristotle in this regard resembles most closely that of Hannah Arendt, to whom she refers in her opening paragraph and whose treatment of work, action, and the vit…
Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship
Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship confronts a question that is central to Aristotle's political philosophy as well as to contemporary political theory: what is a citizen? Answers prove to be elusive, in part because late twentieth-century critiques of the Enlightenment called into doubt fundamental tenets that once guided us. Engaging the two major works of Aristotle's political philosophy, his Nicomachean Ethics and his Politics, Susa…
Ross M. Lence
On July 11, 2006, our distinguished colleague Ross M. Lence passed away. Ross had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August of 2005, and even in his most difficult moments this last year, he continued to grace our lives with his good cheer and to engage in that activity he most loved, teaching
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle’s Political Science, Common Sense, and the Socratic Tradition in The City and Man
In the Beginning: The Socratic Turn in Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
Catherine Zuckert's Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues presents the dramatic order of the dialogues as the narrative arc of Socrates's philosophical investigations. Focusing on the opening chapters of the work, I consider the place in this dramatic order of Socrates's intellectual autobiography in the Phaedo , Symposium , and Apology and his famous turn from the study of the heavens to the study of the human things. I examine in…
On the Use of Greek History for Life: Josiah Ober's Athens and Paul Rahe's Sparta
Among contemporary scholars who write about classical Greece, Josiah Ober and Paul Rahe are especially adept at navigating the territory shared by history and political theory and illuminating the relevance of Greek history for our time. The historical approach each takes in the works under review does not easily fall into the categories—monumental, antiquarian, and critical history— delineated by Nietzsche in the essay to which my subtitle allud…
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