Paul T Wilford
Biographic Data
| ID | 460341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul T Wilford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul T |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilford |
| SIGNATURE | WILFORD P T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8172-1325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Wonders of the World and the Wonder of Man
This article brings Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, and Hans Jonas into conversation about man’s relationship to nature on the basis of their references to the “Ode to Man” from Sophocles’ Antigone. Hegel’s reference to the ode in his Naturphilosophie highlights the violence of man’s practical relation to nature even as it also points beyond all opposition to a philosophic relation that discerns man’s underlying unity with nature…
Tocqueville and the Empire of Commerce in America
Drawing on Tocqueville’s insights into the novel and distinct forms of political life in the democratic age, this article defends an account of America as a modern commercial empire. Despite Tocqueville’s warning that in general nothing is so pernicious to human happiness as great empires, we argue that he saw something worthy of respect in the Anglo-American ambition to expand humanity’s dominion over nature and to establish an empire of the ind…
Aesthetic Judgment, Embodied Rationality, and the Truth of Appearances
This paper offers an interpretation of and introduction to the philosophical anthropology of Roger Scruton through an examination of the aesthetic dimension of human rationality. We argue that attending to our aesthetic experience as individuated subjects capable of intersubjective communion offers a helpful corrective to the deracinated and disembodied view of human rationality prevalent in much of our contemporary ethical and scientific discour…
Introduction
Introduction: The Search for Self-Transcendence in a World of Endless Immanence - Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey: Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 264.)
Reflective Judgment and Radical Evil in Kant’s Religion
This article argues that, on Kant’s account, the claim that an individual is radically evil depends on a reflective judgment that treats all the choices this individual makes as if they were determined by a single supreme maxim. Subsequently, it shows that Kant’s proof of the universality of radical evil is a transcendental argument, which establishes that the human experience of moral life as a constant struggle is only possible for a person who…
Introduction
Kant and the Possibility of Progress
From Comedy to Christianity
Das Geistige Tier
The doubleness of the human as both subject and object is the metaphysical mystery at the heart of Roger Scruton’s philosophy. In his exploration of this mystery, Scruton has recourse to the two towering figures of German Idealism, Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel. This essay offers a reconstruction of Scruton’s appropriation of the legacy of German Idealism. It presents a synoptic analysis of the “metaphysics of the self” that undergirds Scruton’s…
Richard J. Bernstein, Why Read Hannah Arendt Now
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Richard J. Bernstein, Why Read Hannah Arendt Now
Kant and the Possibility of Progress
From Comedy to Christianity
Das Geistige Tier
The doubleness of the human as both subject and object is the metaphysical mystery at the heart of Roger Scruton’s philosophy. In his exploration of this mystery, Scruton has recourse to the two towering figures of German Idealism, Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel. This essay offers a reconstruction of Scruton’s appropriation of the legacy of German Idealism. It presents a synoptic analysis of the “metaphysics of the self” that undergirds Scruton’s…
Reflective Judgment and Radical Evil in Kant’s Religion
This article argues that, on Kant’s account, the claim that an individual is radically evil depends on a reflective judgment that treats all the choices this individual makes as if they were determined by a single supreme maxim. Subsequently, it shows that Kant’s proof of the universality of radical evil is a transcendental argument, which establishes that the human experience of moral life as a constant struggle is only possible for a person who…
Introduction
Aesthetic Judgment, Embodied Rationality, and the Truth of Appearances
This paper offers an interpretation of and introduction to the philosophical anthropology of Roger Scruton through an examination of the aesthetic dimension of human rationality. We argue that attending to our aesthetic experience as individuated subjects capable of intersubjective communion offers a helpful corrective to the deracinated and disembodied view of human rationality prevalent in much of our contemporary ethical and scientific discour…
Introduction
Introduction: The Search for Self-Transcendence in a World of Endless Immanence - Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey: Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 264.)
The Wonders of the World and the Wonder of Man
This article brings Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, and Hans Jonas into conversation about man’s relationship to nature on the basis of their references to the “Ode to Man” from Sophocles’ Antigone. Hegel’s reference to the ode in his Naturphilosophie highlights the violence of man’s practical relation to nature even as it also points beyond all opposition to a philosophic relation that discerns man’s underlying unity with nature…
Tocqueville and the Empire of Commerce in America
Drawing on Tocqueville’s insights into the novel and distinct forms of political life in the democratic age, this article defends an account of America as a modern commercial empire. Despite Tocqueville’s warning that in general nothing is so pernicious to human happiness as great empires, we argue that he saw something worthy of respect in the Anglo-American ambition to expand humanity’s dominion over nature and to establish an empire of the ind…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Hegelianism (2 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (2 works) · Political science (2 works)