Richard L Velkley
Biographic Data
| ID | 444199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Velkley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Velkley |
| SIGNATURE | VELKLEY R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of America |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Kant's Observations and Remarks: A Critical Guide
Kant's Observations of 1764 and Remarks of 1764–5 (a set of fragments written in the margins of his copy of the Observations) document a crucial turning point in his life and thought. Both reveal the growing importance for him of ethics, anthropology and politics, but with an important difference. The Observations attempts to observe human nature directly. The Remarks, by contrast, reveals a revolution in Kant's thinking, largely inspired by Rous…
Kant's Observations and Remarks: A Critical Guide
Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting
On the Roots of Rationalism: Strauss's Natural Right and History as Response to Heidegger
The essay reconsiders the argument of Leo Strauss in Natural Right and History with “radical historicism” and above all its leading representative, Martin Heidegger. Strauss's critique of such historicism is not motivated by the need to recover a teleological natural philosophy for the grounding of natural right. Strauss's turn to “the fundamental problems coeval with human thought” is in accord with Heidegger's claim that the whole is mysterious…
Rules for the misdirection of the mind
Author's Note: These thoughts were composed for a panel of educators hoping to clarify the roots of their unease about the present condition of their art. My approach is to suggest that all grounds for unease will vanish like a dream if our students will only adopt the following highly teachable and broadly applicable method. I venture to say that in light of its great promise of effectiveness, it is truly a wonder that nothing like this method h…
The Unity of Reason: Essays in Kant's Philosophy
The Unity of Reason: Essays on Kant's Philosophy
Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy
Kant on the Primacy and the Limits of Logic
Kant on the Primacy and the Limits of Logic
Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy
The Unity of Reason: Essays on Kant's Philosophy
Rules for the misdirection of the mind
Author's Note: These thoughts were composed for a panel of educators hoping to clarify the roots of their unease about the present condition of their art. My approach is to suggest that all grounds for unease will vanish like a dream if our students will only adopt the following highly teachable and broadly applicable method. I venture to say that in light of its great promise of effectiveness, it is truly a wonder that nothing like this method h…
The Unity of Reason: Essays in Kant's Philosophy
On the Roots of Rationalism: Strauss's Natural Right and History as Response to Heidegger
The essay reconsiders the argument of Leo Strauss in Natural Right and History with “radical historicism” and above all its leading representative, Martin Heidegger. Strauss's critique of such historicism is not motivated by the need to recover a teleological natural philosophy for the grounding of natural right. Strauss's turn to “the fundamental problems coeval with human thought” is in accord with Heidegger's claim that the whole is mysterious…
Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting
Kant's Observations and Remarks: A Critical Guide
Kant's Observations of 1764 and Remarks of 1764–5 (a set of fragments written in the margins of his copy of the Observations) document a crucial turning point in his life and thought. Both reveal the growing importance for him of ethics, anthropology and politics, but with an important difference. The Observations attempts to observe human nature directly. The Remarks, by contrast, reveals a revolution in Kant's thinking, largely inspired by Rous…
Kant's Observations and Remarks: A Critical Guide
Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (5 works) · Contemporary philosophy (3 works) · immanuel Kant (1724-1804) (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (3 works) · Analytic philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works)