Martin A Bertman
Biographic Data
| ID | 462092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin A Bertman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bertman |
| SIGNATURE | BERTMAN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York at Potsdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hobbes on Miracles (and God)
Hobbes accepts only one proof for God's existence: God as first cause of nature. Thus, the laws of nature express God's will, nothing else is knowable about God. The state projects God's will because it responds to the deepest natural -- security and prosperity -- by opposing anti-social tendencies. Thus, the sovereign, by right reason, is the public measurer of religion. In private, religion is a matter of faith. Christianity is based on the sol…
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Editors comment
Editors comment The "Hobbes Newsletter" functioned for several years under the editorship of Tim Fuller and myself. I believe it was a very valuable scholarly asset. It had review articles that supplemented Hobbes Studies and news of conferences and research. Unfortunately when Tim Fuller became Vice President of Colorado College, he was too busy to organize the newsletter and, at that time, I could not find another location to reactivate it. Now…
Europe’s walls and human rights
The theoretical instability and practical progress of human rights
Theoretical difficulties do not allow the acceptance of natural rights theory. In this article the modern philosophers, especially Anglo-Saxon moral sense theorists and Rousseau, Kant and Hegel, are contrasted to Aristotle in terms of a theory of reality and concepts of nature and ethical universality. The cultural problem of modernity relates to subjectivity, historicism and relativity. Praxis for human rights, without firm theoretical foundatio…
Introduction
Hobbes and Hume in relation to Kant
Hobbes and Hume on the imagination can initiate a discussion of empiricism in the 17th and 18th centuries: here, however, it provides the opportunity to focus on Kant's attempt to overcome the limits of their sense originating, naturalist ethics. I argue the general point that Kant's response to his predecessors, both empiricist and non-empiricists, is to modify their focus on nature without falling into skepticism; indeed, his speculative metaph…
Kant's orientation
Kant's ethics demand suppositions where a noumenal freedom does not contradict natural causality. A rational faith in God makes this possible, through a progressive program in nature, including history, through strife, culminating in the doctrine that the republican form of government represents man's essential ethical essence. This captures many traditional religious views but Kant asserts them as a rational exposition in response to modern and …
Conatus in Hobbes' De Corpore
Sociology and Hobbes
90 Sociology and Hobbes MARTIN A. BERTMAN There is a delicate balance between the two wings of a scientific investigation of society; this balance must result from the work of organizing empirical research and theoretical construction. Political philosophy has provided a long history of theoretical frameworks which have often shown an acute logical and method- ological sensibility but are usually deficient in the 'cash value' of empirical resesar…
Justice and contra-natural dissolution
God and Man
Kierkegaard and/or philosophy
By discussing The Concept ofAnxiety, often called Kierkegaard’s most difficult book, I wish to suggest his relationship to philosophy or, at least, to what he considered philosophy’s standpoint. Kierkegaard did not consider himself a philosopher but rather a Christian. It is the Christian standpoint he opposes to the philosophical standpoint, showing the reader by this opposition what characteristics he considers each to have. Kierkegaard’s Chris…
Heidegger on Hobbes
104 Heidegger on Hobbes MARTIN A. BERTMAN "Abstractum est, quod in re supposita existentem nominis concreti causam denotat", (O.L. I, iii, 3, p. 28)1 " `Aus dem folgt unbittlich das' - Ja, in dieser Demonstration geht es aus ihm hervor. Und eine Demonstration ist dies fur den, der Sie als Demonstration anerkennt. Wer sie nicht anerkennt, wer ihr nicht als Demonstration folgt, der trennt sich von uns, noch ehe es zur Sprache kommt". Wittgenstein, …
Hobbes and Xenophon's Tyrannicus
Semantics and Political Theory in Hobbes
Augustine on time, with reference to Kant
Pico's intellectual politics
A defense of legal positivism
Hobbes and Performatives
The natural Body and the Body politic
Equality in Hobbes with Reference to Aristotle
It is a policy of Hobbes' polemic to state the crucial point or principle in the boldest form before embarking on qualifications. In just this spirit he asserts that men are equal by nature. Fifty variations among men in what is ordinarily considered to differentiate significantly—mental or physical powers—become unimportant for the matter at hand: politics. Thus, with a swift and elegant force, Hobbes turns the reader's mind away from the tradit…
La vérité comme coulisse mythique chez Nietzsche
La thèse ici défendue est que, pour Nietzsche, la vérité saisie dans sa signification la plus éminente est la manifestation de la personnalité du penseur. La personnalité unifie et confère une importance « existentielle » à un niveau plus « mondain » de la vérité, où celle-ci apparaît comme un accident historique et conventionnel. La vérité en tant que personnalité crée un pessimisme théorique libérateur, le Schein des Seins, tandis que la concep…
The Hebrew Encounter with Evil
Equality in Hobbes with Reference to Aristotle
It is a policy of Hobbes' polemic to state the crucial point or principle in the boldest form before embarking on qualifications. In just this spirit he asserts that men are equal by nature. Fifty variations among men in what is ordinarily considered to differentiate significantly—mental or physical powers—become unimportant for the matter at hand: politics. Thus, with a swift and elegant force, Hobbes turns the reader's mind away from the tradit…
The theoretical instability and practical progress of human rights
Theoretical difficulties do not allow the acceptance of natural rights theory. In this article the modern philosophers, especially Anglo-Saxon moral sense theorists and Rousseau, Kant and Hegel, are contrasted to Aristotle in terms of a theory of reality and concepts of nature and ethical universality. The cultural problem of modernity relates to subjectivity, historicism and relativity. Praxis for human rights, without firm theoretical foundatio…
The Hebrew Encounter with Evil
The Hebrew Encounter with Evil
La vérité comme coulisse mythique chez Nietzsche
La thèse ici défendue est que, pour Nietzsche, la vérité saisie dans sa signification la plus éminente est la manifestation de la personnalité du penseur. La personnalité unifie et confère une importance « existentielle » à un niveau plus « mondain » de la vérité, où celle-ci apparaît comme un accident historique et conventionnel. La vérité en tant que personnalité crée un pessimisme théorique libérateur, le Schein des Seins, tandis que la concep…
Equality in Hobbes with Reference to Aristotle
It is a policy of Hobbes' polemic to state the crucial point or principle in the boldest form before embarking on qualifications. In just this spirit he asserts that men are equal by nature. Fifty variations among men in what is ordinarily considered to differentiate significantly—mental or physical powers—become unimportant for the matter at hand: politics. Thus, with a swift and elegant force, Hobbes turns the reader's mind away from the tradit…
Hobbes and Performatives
The natural Body and the Body politic
A defense of legal positivism
Augustine on time, with reference to Kant
Pico's intellectual politics
Semantics and Political Theory in Hobbes
Heidegger on Hobbes
104 Heidegger on Hobbes MARTIN A. BERTMAN "Abstractum est, quod in re supposita existentem nominis concreti causam denotat", (O.L. I, iii, 3, p. 28)1 " `Aus dem folgt unbittlich das' - Ja, in dieser Demonstration geht es aus ihm hervor. Und eine Demonstration ist dies fur den, der Sie als Demonstration anerkennt. Wer sie nicht anerkennt, wer ihr nicht als Demonstration folgt, der trennt sich von uns, noch ehe es zur Sprache kommt". Wittgenstein, …
Hobbes and Xenophon's Tyrannicus
God and Man
Kierkegaard and/or philosophy
By discussing The Concept ofAnxiety, often called Kierkegaard’s most difficult book, I wish to suggest his relationship to philosophy or, at least, to what he considered philosophy’s standpoint. Kierkegaard did not consider himself a philosopher but rather a Christian. It is the Christian standpoint he opposes to the philosophical standpoint, showing the reader by this opposition what characteristics he considers each to have. Kierkegaard’s Chris…
Justice and contra-natural dissolution
Sociology and Hobbes
90 Sociology and Hobbes MARTIN A. BERTMAN There is a delicate balance between the two wings of a scientific investigation of society; this balance must result from the work of organizing empirical research and theoretical construction. Political philosophy has provided a long history of theoretical frameworks which have often shown an acute logical and method- ological sensibility but are usually deficient in the 'cash value' of empirical resesar…
Conatus in Hobbes' De Corpore
Kant's orientation
Kant's ethics demand suppositions where a noumenal freedom does not contradict natural causality. A rational faith in God makes this possible, through a progressive program in nature, including history, through strife, culminating in the doctrine that the republican form of government represents man's essential ethical essence. This captures many traditional religious views but Kant asserts them as a rational exposition in response to modern and …
Editors comment
Editors comment The "Hobbes Newsletter" functioned for several years under the editorship of Tim Fuller and myself. I believe it was a very valuable scholarly asset. It had review articles that supplemented Hobbes Studies and news of conferences and research. Unfortunately when Tim Fuller became Vice President of Colorado College, he was too busy to organize the newsletter and, at that time, I could not find another location to reactivate it. Now…
Europe’s walls and human rights
The theoretical instability and practical progress of human rights
Theoretical difficulties do not allow the acceptance of natural rights theory. In this article the modern philosophers, especially Anglo-Saxon moral sense theorists and Rousseau, Kant and Hegel, are contrasted to Aristotle in terms of a theory of reality and concepts of nature and ethical universality. The cultural problem of modernity relates to subjectivity, historicism and relativity. Praxis for human rights, without firm theoretical foundatio…
Introduction
Hobbes and Hume in relation to Kant
Hobbes and Hume on the imagination can initiate a discussion of empiricism in the 17th and 18th centuries: here, however, it provides the opportunity to focus on Kant's attempt to overcome the limits of their sense originating, naturalist ethics. I argue the general point that Kant's response to his predecessors, both empiricist and non-empiricists, is to modify their focus on nature without falling into skepticism; indeed, his speculative metaph…
Editors comment
Editors comment
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