James V Schall
Biographic Data
| ID | 461686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James V Schall |
| GIVEN NAMES | James V |
| FAMILY NAME | Schall |
| SIGNATURE | SCHALL J V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Nature of Political Philosophy: And Other Studies and Commentaries
On the Completion of Political Life and the Incompleteness of Political Philosophy
Political life means the normal life of a human being in its cycles from conception to death. A life is complete when it passes through these cycles. Political philosophy confronts the remaining issues of immortality and justice that arise in the lives of the citizens of actual cities
Why Precisely Political Philosophy
Philosophy is to remind us of the necessity in things: not just the necessities to which we have to resign ourselves, but those we can find splendid.—Robert Sokolowski, Moral Action: A Phenomenological Study1Now classical political philosophy has held that it is not any natural power that is first and properly the concern of the political art, but on the contrary, rational powers that are not determined to one particular action but are inclined i…
An Autobiographical Memoir
In teaching courses over the years in political thought, one comes to inquire about the nature of political things and how they are to be thought about. Political philosophy is concerned with its limits and what, if anything, lies beyond them, as the whole with politics concerns itself is not the whole of what is. An autobiographical memoir is a belated occasion to judge how one thought of these fundamental things
A Journal Views Itself
The twelve contributors to this collection of essays are all themselves members of what might be called the “Telos Family.” Each writer gives us some account of his or her relation to the journal, its origins, its direction, and its future. Many have also known Paul Piccone, Telos's dynamic founder. Piccone's death in 2004, as well as the subsequent direction of the journal, is noted by most of the volume's contributors. Every writer indicates a …
On Seeing One's Own Shadow: Political Philosophy as an Intellectual Enterprise
Political philosophy is a discipline related to all other disciplines in a manner that prevents it from becoming autonomous but at the same time not absorbed into other disciplines. When political philosophy ceases to be itself, other disciplines rush in to take its place and thereby themselves undermine their own being
On the Curious Discipline of Political Philosophy
Political philosophy has a “curious” place in intellectual affairs. It wants to know whether philosophy has a place in the city. It also is aware that once political things have accomplished their purpose, the major issues of what-it-is-to-be-a-human-being remain. Aristotle warned that politics was not the highest science as such, but an understanding of politics that saw no place for anything but the political would end in a tyrannical exclusion…
A Catholic Reading of the Gorgias of Plato
SOCRATES: But if I come to my end because of a deficiency in flattering oratory, I know that you'd see me bear my death with ease. For no one who isn't totally bereft of reason and courage is afraid to die; doing what's unjust is what he's afraid of. For of all evils, the ultimate is that of arriving in Hades with one's soul stuffed full of unjust actions. Plato, Gorgias, 523d–e1 SOCRATES: Maybe you [Callicles] think this account [eschatological …
At the Limits of Political Philosophy: From "Brilliant Errors" to Things of Uncommon Importance
Revelation and Political Philosophy: On Locating the Best City
Philosophy is the quest for knowledge of the whole by a being who is himself a whole but not the whole. The quest is given with our very being. It makes us be what we are, both acting and thinking beings. It explains the constant dynamism that charges through our being whether we like it or not. Further, it incites us to know what we are in order that we might choose to be what we are. We are the only beings in the universe that cannot be what we…
Comparative Political Philosophy and Revelation
Books in review
On the Academic Discipline of “Political Science
(2001). On the Academic Discipline of “Political Science”. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 69-72
Fides et Ratio: Approaches to a Roman Catholic Political Philosophy
The relationship between philosophy, revelation, and politics is a basic intellectual theme, either at the forefront or in the background, of all political philosophy. The 1998 publication of John Paul II's encyclicalFides et Ratiooccasioned much reflection on the relation of reason and revelation. Though not directly concerned with political philosophy, this encyclical provides a welcome opportunity to address many theologicalpolitical issues th…
On the Paradoxical Place of Political Philosophy in the Structure of Reality
On the Point of Medieval Political Philosophy
Aristotle: Religion, Politics, and Philosophy
(1998). Aristotle: Religion, Politics, and Philosophy. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 5-12
The Uniqueness of the Political Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
The Right Order of Polity and Economy: Reflections on St Thomas and the 'Old Law
The order of polity and economy that is set forth in Israel as recounted in the Hebrew Bible can be described and analyzed in clear and careful terms even by those who are not believers. It is the position of believers in the Hebrew Bible, whether Jews or Christians, that more than passing principles are to be found there. Thomas Aquinas, in his own reflections on the Old Law, as Hebrew revelation came to be known among Christians, found in many …
The Intellectual Context of Natural Law
Journal Article The Intellectual Context of Natural Law Get access James V. Schall James V. Schall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 38, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 85–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajj/38.1.85 Published: 01 June 1993
Transcendence and Political Philosophy
Classical political philosophy does not claim to be superior to philosophy nor to revelation. Political philosophy is the highest of the practical sciences, itself a unique and legitimate source of specific knowledge that would limit politics to be politics. For the things beyond politics to be free to be confronted in their own nonpolitical order, the polity must itself be constructed in such a way as not to kill its saints or philosophers. Trad…
On the Teaching of Political Philosophy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames V. SchallJames V. Schall, S. J., is currently a professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He has previously written books on Christianity and politics and political philosophy. His latest book is entitled Religion, Wealth, and Poverty
Liberation Theology in Latin America
This is an important book, despite the deceptive and somewhat disingenuous title. Not, as it might seem, a survey of the latest theologies of social change from Latin America, this collection represents rather an attack on such theologies by members of the religious right in the United States. Some of the authors stand close to the seats of power; like Ernest Lefever and his Ethics and Public Policy Center, or Jeane Kirkpatrick, former United Sta…
From the University: American Catholics and the Peace Debate
Debate over deterrence and defense among the American Catholic bishops raises profound moral questions of concern to Catholics and non-Catholics alike
The Best Form of Government: A Perspective on the Continuity of Political Theory
During the past half-century or so, the world has seen the formation of some one hundred new nation-states, while many of the other fifty-odd political entities have radically altered their previous form of constitution by force, revolution, conquest, election, or change of political philosophy. This has given renewed life to the classical issue about what is the best form of rule under which men ought to live. Political modernization has become …
Liberation Theology in Latin America
This is an important book, despite the deceptive and somewhat disingenuous title. Not, as it might seem, a survey of the latest theologies of social change from Latin America, this collection represents rather an attack on such theologies by members of the religious right in the United States. Some of the authors stand close to the seats of power; like Ernest Lefever and his Ethics and Public Policy Center, or Jeane Kirkpatrick, former United Sta…
Cartesianism and Political Theory
Political theory never stands by itself. Any theoretical explanation of politics depends on attitudes and positions which stem from metaphysics, theology, ethics, or science. An understanding of the political thought of a man, then, will require some insight into the relationship between his politics and the presuppositions on which it is based. To write about the political theory of Descartes, however, presents special difficulties, for Descarte…
Fides et Ratio: Approaches to a Roman Catholic Political Philosophy
The relationship between philosophy, revelation, and politics is a basic intellectual theme, either at the forefront or in the background, of all political philosophy. The 1998 publication of John Paul II's encyclicalFides et Ratiooccasioned much reflection on the relation of reason and revelation. Though not directly concerned with political philosophy, this encyclical provides a welcome opportunity to address many theologicalpolitical issues th…
The Best Form of Government: A Perspective on the Continuity of Political Theory
During the past half-century or so, the world has seen the formation of some one hundred new nation-states, while many of the other fifty-odd political entities have radically altered their previous form of constitution by force, revolution, conquest, election, or change of political philosophy. This has given renewed life to the classical issue about what is the best form of rule under which men ought to live. Political modernization has become …
The Political Theory of Reinhold Niebuhr
Government without Bother
Cartesianism and Political Theory
Political theory never stands by itself. Any theoretical explanation of politics depends on attitudes and positions which stem from metaphysics, theology, ethics, or science. An understanding of the political thought of a man, then, will require some insight into the relationship between his politics and the presuppositions on which it is based. To write about the political theory of Descartes, however, presents special difficulties, for Descarte…
Protestantism and Atheism
Political Theory and political Theology
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Possibilities and Madness: A Note on the Scope of Political Theory
In classical political thought, politics and art were alike since both were works of the practical, not the speculative, reason, within whose ample scope there was great room for things to be otherwise. Art and politics differed because politics was limited by its end, and therefore freed from the absolute indifference of pure possibility which looked to existence only as an alternative, as something which had no need of existence whatsoever, eve…
The Best Form of Government: A Perspective on the Continuity of Political Theory
During the past half-century or so, the world has seen the formation of some one hundred new nation-states, while many of the other fifty-odd political entities have radically altered their previous form of constitution by force, revolution, conquest, election, or change of political philosophy. This has given renewed life to the classical issue about what is the best form of rule under which men ought to live. Political modernization has become …
From the University: American Catholics and the Peace Debate
Debate over deterrence and defense among the American Catholic bishops raises profound moral questions of concern to Catholics and non-Catholics alike
Liberation Theology in Latin America
This is an important book, despite the deceptive and somewhat disingenuous title. Not, as it might seem, a survey of the latest theologies of social change from Latin America, this collection represents rather an attack on such theologies by members of the religious right in the United States. Some of the authors stand close to the seats of power; like Ernest Lefever and his Ethics and Public Policy Center, or Jeane Kirkpatrick, former United Sta…
On the Teaching of Political Philosophy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames V. SchallJames V. Schall, S. J., is currently a professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He has previously written books on Christianity and politics and political philosophy. His latest book is entitled Religion, Wealth, and Poverty
The Intellectual Context of Natural Law
Journal Article The Intellectual Context of Natural Law Get access James V. Schall James V. Schall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 38, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 85–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajj/38.1.85 Published: 01 June 1993
Transcendence and Political Philosophy
Classical political philosophy does not claim to be superior to philosophy nor to revelation. Political philosophy is the highest of the practical sciences, itself a unique and legitimate source of specific knowledge that would limit politics to be politics. For the things beyond politics to be free to be confronted in their own nonpolitical order, the polity must itself be constructed in such a way as not to kill its saints or philosophers. Trad…
The Right Order of Polity and Economy: Reflections on St Thomas and the 'Old Law
The order of polity and economy that is set forth in Israel as recounted in the Hebrew Bible can be described and analyzed in clear and careful terms even by those who are not believers. It is the position of believers in the Hebrew Bible, whether Jews or Christians, that more than passing principles are to be found there. Thomas Aquinas, in his own reflections on the Old Law, as Hebrew revelation came to be known among Christians, found in many …
The Uniqueness of the Political Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle: Religion, Politics, and Philosophy
(1998). Aristotle: Religion, Politics, and Philosophy. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 5-12
On the Point of Medieval Political Philosophy
Fides et Ratio: Approaches to a Roman Catholic Political Philosophy
The relationship between philosophy, revelation, and politics is a basic intellectual theme, either at the forefront or in the background, of all political philosophy. The 1998 publication of John Paul II's encyclicalFides et Ratiooccasioned much reflection on the relation of reason and revelation. Though not directly concerned with political philosophy, this encyclical provides a welcome opportunity to address many theologicalpolitical issues th…
On the Paradoxical Place of Political Philosophy in the Structure of Reality
On the Academic Discipline of “Political Science
(2001). On the Academic Discipline of “Political Science”. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 69-72
Books in review
Comparative Political Philosophy and Revelation
Revelation and Political Philosophy: On Locating the Best City
Philosophy is the quest for knowledge of the whole by a being who is himself a whole but not the whole. The quest is given with our very being. It makes us be what we are, both acting and thinking beings. It explains the constant dynamism that charges through our being whether we like it or not. Further, it incites us to know what we are in order that we might choose to be what we are. We are the only beings in the universe that cannot be what we…
At the Limits of Political Philosophy: From "Brilliant Errors" to Things of Uncommon Importance
A Catholic Reading of the Gorgias of Plato
SOCRATES: But if I come to my end because of a deficiency in flattering oratory, I know that you'd see me bear my death with ease. For no one who isn't totally bereft of reason and courage is afraid to die; doing what's unjust is what he's afraid of. For of all evils, the ultimate is that of arriving in Hades with one's soul stuffed full of unjust actions. Plato, Gorgias, 523d–e1 SOCRATES: Maybe you [Callicles] think this account [eschatological …
On the Curious Discipline of Political Philosophy
Political philosophy has a “curious” place in intellectual affairs. It wants to know whether philosophy has a place in the city. It also is aware that once political things have accomplished their purpose, the major issues of what-it-is-to-be-a-human-being remain. Aristotle warned that politics was not the highest science as such, but an understanding of politics that saw no place for anything but the political would end in a tyrannical exclusion…
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