Alexander Jech
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Jech |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Jech |
| SIGNATURE | JECH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4101-1756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Has Athens to Do with Rome? Tocqueville and the New Republicanism
The recent debate over “republican” conceptions of freedom as non-domination has reinvigorated philosophical discussions of freedom. However, “neo-Roman” republicanism, which has been characterized as republicanism that respects equality, has largely ignored the work of Alexis de Tocqueville, although he too took his task to be crafting a republicanism suited to equality. I therefore provide a philosophical treatment of the heart of Tocqueville’s…
Tocqueville, Pascal, and the Transcendent Horizon
This article traces the contours of Pascal’s influence on Tocqueville’s understanding of the human condition and our appropriate response to it. Similar temperaments lead both authors to emphasize human limitations and contingency, especially our mortality, our ignorance of the most important subjects, and the effects of historical contingency on human nature, and both represent the complex internal dynamic of human nature in terms of the interpl…
Man Simply
There is widespread disagreement about Tocqueville's conception of human nature, some going so far as to say that Tocqueville possessed no unified conception of human nature at all. In this paper, I aim to provide the essential principles of Tocqueville's conception of human nature through an examination of the way in which he describes the power of human circumstances, such as physical environment, social state, and religion, to shape human char…
Tocqueville, Pascal, and the Transcendent Horizon
This article traces the contours of Pascal’s influence on Tocqueville’s understanding of the human condition and our appropriate response to it. Similar temperaments lead both authors to emphasize human limitations and contingency, especially our mortality, our ignorance of the most important subjects, and the effects of historical contingency on human nature, and both represent the complex internal dynamic of human nature in terms of the interpl…
Man Simply
There is widespread disagreement about Tocqueville's conception of human nature, some going so far as to say that Tocqueville possessed no unified conception of human nature at all. In this paper, I aim to provide the essential principles of Tocqueville's conception of human nature through an examination of the way in which he describes the power of human circumstances, such as physical environment, social state, and religion, to shape human char…
What Has Athens to Do with Rome? Tocqueville and the New Republicanism
The recent debate over “republican” conceptions of freedom as non-domination has reinvigorated philosophical discussions of freedom. However, “neo-Roman” republicanism, which has been characterized as republicanism that respects equality, has largely ignored the work of Alexis de Tocqueville, although he too took his task to be crafting a republicanism suited to equality. I therefore provide a philosophical treatment of the heart of Tocqueville’s…
Man Simply
There is widespread disagreement about Tocqueville's conception of human nature, some going so far as to say that Tocqueville possessed no unified conception of human nature at all. In this paper, I aim to provide the essential principles of Tocqueville's conception of human nature through an examination of the way in which he describes the power of human circumstances, such as physical environment, social state, and religion, to shape human char…
Tocqueville, Pascal, and the Transcendent Horizon
This article traces the contours of Pascal’s influence on Tocqueville’s understanding of the human condition and our appropriate response to it. Similar temperaments lead both authors to emphasize human limitations and contingency, especially our mortality, our ignorance of the most important subjects, and the effects of historical contingency on human nature, and both represent the complex internal dynamic of human nature in terms of the interpl…
What Has Athens to Do with Rome? Tocqueville and the New Republicanism
The recent debate over “republican” conceptions of freedom as non-domination has reinvigorated philosophical discussions of freedom. However, “neo-Roman” republicanism, which has been characterized as republicanism that respects equality, has largely ignored the work of Alexis de Tocqueville, although he too took his task to be crafting a republicanism suited to equality. I therefore provide a philosophical treatment of the heart of Tocqueville’s…
American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · European Political History Analysis (3 works) · Political Theory and Influence (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Contingency (1 works) · History (1 works) · Human being (1 works)