M Andrew Holowchak
Biographic Data
| ID | 4125147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Andrew Holowchak |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Holowchak |
| SIGNATURE | HOLOWCHAK M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rider University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Repetition, the Compulsion to Repeat, and the Death Drive
Thomas Fleming's The Great Divide
Eudemonism or Survivalism? Jefferson and the Unwritten Laws of Self-Preservation
Jefferson states that in certain dire circumstances—e.g., when a person’s life is at stake or when a belligerent nation threatens the existence of another—the legal pacts between those persons or nations, and even the laws of morality, are left in abeyancy. Survival of the threatened person or nation is the only thing that matters, and any actions that conduce to survival are justifiable. Self-preservation in such cases trumps all considerations—…
Beyond the death drive
Differences of Circumstance, Differences of Fact
It is often assumed that Jefferson—acquainted with the writings of Scottish thinkers such as Adam Ferguson, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Lord Kames, Adam Smith, and John Millar—was a stadialist of some persuasion, as several of his writings are at least consistent with stadialism. If so, was he a cyclicalist, committed to a society having a life-cycle, or a linearist, committed to the possibility of continued convergence toward some ideal of perfe…
Aaron J. Palmer's Rule of Law
Jefferson’s Platonic Republicanism
That Jefferson execrated Plato in an 1814 letter to friend John Adams. In it, he expresses an unsympathetic, hostile view of Plato’s Republic, and the reasons are several. Nonetheless, Plato’s views on what makes government fundamentally sound are, at base, remarkably similar to Jefferson’s both in substance and sentiment, so much so that it is inconceivable to think that Plato’s Republic had little effect on Jefferson’s political thinking. That …
Freud on philosophy and philosophers
Freud's attitude toward philosophers and philosophy in published works was consistently hostile. This paper aims to show that Freud's persistently hostile attitude toward philosophers and philosophy was the result of ambivalence. On the one hand, it is explicable by his reaction to the resistance on the part of philosophers toward his innovative notion of “unconscious” and by his embrace of Comtean progressivism. On the other hand, it is explicab…
The Paradox of Public Service Jefferson, Education, and the Problem of Plato’s Cave
The problem of unassailability
Freud’s debt to stoicism? A critical response to Kirsner
Paul Goodman redux
When talk of philosophy of pedagogy comes up today, it is common to hear the names of Aristotle, Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, or Paulo Freire, but the name of Paul Goodman, who campaigned vigorously for pedagogical reform much of his life, is seldom mentioned. In spite of neglect of his work, Goodman had much to say on pedagogical practice that is rich, poignant, and relevant today. In consequence, it is unfortunate that he is seldom read and di…
Jefferson’s moral agrarianism
Education as Training for Life
This paper is an indirect critique of the practice of American liberal education. I show that the liberal, integrative model that American colleges and universities have adopted, with one key exception, is essentially an approach to education proposed some 2400 years ago by Stoic philosophers. To this end, I focus on a critical sketch of the Stoic model of education—chiefly through the works of Seneca, Epictetus, and Aurelius—that is distinguisha…
Interpreting Dreams for Corrective Regimen
Journal Article Interpreting Dreams for Corrective Regimen: Diagnostic Dreams in Greco-Roman Medicine Get access M. ANDREW HOLOWCHAK M. ANDREW HOLOWCHAK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 56, Issue 4, October 2001, Pages 382–399, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/56.4.382 Published: 01 October 2001
Education as Training for Life
This paper is an indirect critique of the practice of American liberal education. I show that the liberal, integrative model that American colleges and universities have adopted, with one key exception, is essentially an approach to education proposed some 2400 years ago by Stoic philosophers. To this end, I focus on a critical sketch of the Stoic model of education—chiefly through the works of Seneca, Epictetus, and Aurelius—that is distinguisha…
Interpreting Dreams for Corrective Regimen
Journal Article Interpreting Dreams for Corrective Regimen: Diagnostic Dreams in Greco-Roman Medicine Get access M. ANDREW HOLOWCHAK M. ANDREW HOLOWCHAK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 56, Issue 4, October 2001, Pages 382–399, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/56.4.382 Published: 01 October 2001
Interpreting Dreams for Corrective Regimen
Journal Article Interpreting Dreams for Corrective Regimen: Diagnostic Dreams in Greco-Roman Medicine Get access M. ANDREW HOLOWCHAK M. ANDREW HOLOWCHAK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 56, Issue 4, October 2001, Pages 382–399, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/56.4.382 Published: 01 October 2001
Education as Training for Life
This paper is an indirect critique of the practice of American liberal education. I show that the liberal, integrative model that American colleges and universities have adopted, with one key exception, is essentially an approach to education proposed some 2400 years ago by Stoic philosophers. To this end, I focus on a critical sketch of the Stoic model of education—chiefly through the works of Seneca, Epictetus, and Aurelius—that is distinguisha…
Freud’s debt to stoicism? A critical response to Kirsner
Paul Goodman redux
When talk of philosophy of pedagogy comes up today, it is common to hear the names of Aristotle, Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, or Paulo Freire, but the name of Paul Goodman, who campaigned vigorously for pedagogical reform much of his life, is seldom mentioned. In spite of neglect of his work, Goodman had much to say on pedagogical practice that is rich, poignant, and relevant today. In consequence, it is unfortunate that he is seldom read and di…
Jefferson’s moral agrarianism
The problem of unassailability
Freud on philosophy and philosophers
Freud's attitude toward philosophers and philosophy in published works was consistently hostile. This paper aims to show that Freud's persistently hostile attitude toward philosophers and philosophy was the result of ambivalence. On the one hand, it is explicable by his reaction to the resistance on the part of philosophers toward his innovative notion of “unconscious” and by his embrace of Comtean progressivism. On the other hand, it is explicab…
The Paradox of Public Service Jefferson, Education, and the Problem of Plato’s Cave
Jefferson’s Platonic Republicanism
That Jefferson execrated Plato in an 1814 letter to friend John Adams. In it, he expresses an unsympathetic, hostile view of Plato’s Republic, and the reasons are several. Nonetheless, Plato’s views on what makes government fundamentally sound are, at base, remarkably similar to Jefferson’s both in substance and sentiment, so much so that it is inconceivable to think that Plato’s Republic had little effect on Jefferson’s political thinking. That …
Beyond the death drive
Differences of Circumstance, Differences of Fact
It is often assumed that Jefferson—acquainted with the writings of Scottish thinkers such as Adam Ferguson, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Lord Kames, Adam Smith, and John Millar—was a stadialist of some persuasion, as several of his writings are at least consistent with stadialism. If so, was he a cyclicalist, committed to a society having a life-cycle, or a linearist, committed to the possibility of continued convergence toward some ideal of perfe…
Aaron J. Palmer's Rule of Law
Thomas Fleming's The Great Divide
Eudemonism or Survivalism? Jefferson and the Unwritten Laws of Self-Preservation
Jefferson states that in certain dire circumstances—e.g., when a person’s life is at stake or when a belligerent nation threatens the existence of another—the legal pacts between those persons or nations, and even the laws of morality, are left in abeyancy. Survival of the threatened person or nation is the only thing that matters, and any actions that conduce to survival are justifiable. Self-preservation in such cases trumps all considerations—…
Repetition, the Compulsion to Repeat, and the Death Drive
Philosophy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works)