Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Matthew Sciabarra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Sciabarra |
| SIGNATURE | SCIABARRA C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rhetoric, Dialectic, and Dogmatism
Long: I do have a quarrel with what McCloskey's chapter says about Plato's Gorgias, one of my favorite Platonic dialogues.One of the aims of that dialogue is to distinguish between two modes of speech -one that aims at truth and one that aims at power.Plato identifies the former with philosophy and the latter with rhetoric, thus drawing McCloskey's ire because she is a longtime defender of the importance of rhetoric.McCloskey: Yes, Plato is charm…
Dialectics of Liberty
Are we all dialecticians now? Reply to MacGregor and Friedman
In his critique of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, David MacGregor argues that my book trivializes dialectical method. He fails to notice the many nondialectical assumptions that pervade contemporary social theory and practice. Dialectics, as a context‐sensitive methodological orientation, can provide tools for a better grasp of systems and processes in the real world—the goal, as I understand it, of the "post‐libertarian" approach Jeffrey Friedma…
From Aristotle to Marx
ESSENTIALISM IN THE THOUGHT OF KARL MARX by Scott Meikle LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, 1985. 195 pp., $24–95 Meikle emphasizes the roots of Marx's dialectical method in Aristotelian essentialism and organicism. This is shown to constitute a challenge to liberal scholars to rethink their methodological premises. Though many liberals claim Aristotle as their intellectual forebear, they haue not grasped the Aristotelian propensity for holistic analysis…
Marx on the precipice of utopia
MARX, REASON, AND THE ART OF FREEDOM by Kevin M. Brien Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. 288pp., $32.95
The crisis of libertarian dualism
The crisis of libertarian dualism
Are we all dialecticians now? Reply to MacGregor and Friedman
In his critique of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, David MacGregor argues that my book trivializes dialectical method. He fails to notice the many nondialectical assumptions that pervade contemporary social theory and practice. Dialectics, as a context‐sensitive methodological orientation, can provide tools for a better grasp of systems and processes in the real world—the goal, as I understand it, of the "post‐libertarian" approach Jeffrey Friedma…
Marx on the precipice of utopia
MARX, REASON, AND THE ART OF FREEDOM by Kevin M. Brien Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. 288pp., $32.95
The crisis of libertarian dualism
Marx on the precipice of utopia
MARX, REASON, AND THE ART OF FREEDOM by Kevin M. Brien Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. 288pp., $32.95
From Aristotle to Marx
ESSENTIALISM IN THE THOUGHT OF KARL MARX by Scott Meikle LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, 1985. 195 pp., $24–95 Meikle emphasizes the roots of Marx's dialectical method in Aristotelian essentialism and organicism. This is shown to constitute a challenge to liberal scholars to rethink their methodological premises. Though many liberals claim Aristotle as their intellectual forebear, they haue not grasped the Aristotelian propensity for holistic analysis…
Are we all dialecticians now? Reply to MacGregor and Friedman
In his critique of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, David MacGregor argues that my book trivializes dialectical method. He fails to notice the many nondialectical assumptions that pervade contemporary social theory and practice. Dialectics, as a context‐sensitive methodological orientation, can provide tools for a better grasp of systems and processes in the real world—the goal, as I understand it, of the "post‐libertarian" approach Jeffrey Friedma…
Dialectics of Liberty
Rhetoric, Dialectic, and Dogmatism
Long: I do have a quarrel with what McCloskey's chapter says about Plato's Gorgias, one of my favorite Platonic dialogues.One of the aims of that dialogue is to distinguish between two modes of speech -one that aims at truth and one that aims at power.Plato identifies the former with philosophy and the latter with rhetoric, thus drawing McCloskey's ire because she is a longtime defender of the importance of rhetoric.McCloskey: Yes, Plato is charm…
Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Dialectic (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Law (2 works)