Matthew Clemente
Biographic Data
| ID | 3940974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Clemente |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Clemente |
| SIGNATURE | CLEMENTE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1979-5646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards an Anthropological Perspective on Human Flourishing in Education
While many recognise the impact formal education has on human flourishing, often overlooked are the forces in society that shape our conception of the good life. Our understanding of flourishing is formed as much by the culture we live in as by the classrooms we learn in. This oversight impacts our ability to think clearly about flourishing because it keeps us from seeing the foundations upon which our idea of the good life is built. Contending t…
Educating Attention: Flourishing in the Age of Generative AI
In the Metaphysics, Aristotle emphasizes the significance of theōria, an intellectual virtue that aims at neither production nor utility but the contemplative attention to truth. Cultivating the habit of attention, we argue, is increasingly important in an age defined by generative AI and the production of knowledge that is as often deceptive as it is accurate. Tracing the long history of artists and scholars who aim at inspiring attention in the…
Desire and the City: The Freedom and Tyranny of Being Human
For Freud, all desire is sexual desire. That includes the desire to know, philosophia, erotic love sublimated into the love of wisdom. Yet, as Nietzsche notes, the origin of such desire was, “like the beginning of everything great on earth, soaked in blood thoroughly and for a long time.” If all desire is, in some sense, erotic, all desire is also sadistic; even the most sublimated of desires is at bottom a desire for cruelty. It was in order to …
Eros Crucified: Death, Desire, and the Divine in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Religion
Towards an Anthropological Perspective on Human Flourishing in Education
While many recognise the impact formal education has on human flourishing, often overlooked are the forces in society that shape our conception of the good life. Our understanding of flourishing is formed as much by the culture we live in as by the classrooms we learn in. This oversight impacts our ability to think clearly about flourishing because it keeps us from seeing the foundations upon which our idea of the good life is built. Contending t…
Eros Crucified: Death, Desire, and the Divine in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Religion
Desire and the City: The Freedom and Tyranny of Being Human
For Freud, all desire is sexual desire. That includes the desire to know, philosophia, erotic love sublimated into the love of wisdom. Yet, as Nietzsche notes, the origin of such desire was, “like the beginning of everything great on earth, soaked in blood thoroughly and for a long time.” If all desire is, in some sense, erotic, all desire is also sadistic; even the most sublimated of desires is at bottom a desire for cruelty. It was in order to …
Towards an Anthropological Perspective on Human Flourishing in Education
While many recognise the impact formal education has on human flourishing, often overlooked are the forces in society that shape our conception of the good life. Our understanding of flourishing is formed as much by the culture we live in as by the classrooms we learn in. This oversight impacts our ability to think clearly about flourishing because it keeps us from seeing the foundations upon which our idea of the good life is built. Contending t…
Educating Attention: Flourishing in the Age of Generative AI
In the Metaphysics, Aristotle emphasizes the significance of theōria, an intellectual virtue that aims at neither production nor utility but the contemplative attention to truth. Cultivating the habit of attention, we argue, is increasingly important in an age defined by generative AI and the production of knowledge that is as often deceptive as it is accurate. Tracing the long history of artists and scholars who aim at inspiring attention in the…
Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Flourishing (2 works) · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Civilization (1 works) · Cognitive science (1 works)