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6Charles TaylorIn John Shand (ed.), Central Works of Philosophy, Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century: Quine and After, Acumen Publishing. pp. 268-290. 2006.
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67Swanton and Nietzsche on Self-LoveJournal of Value Inquiry 49 (3): 387-403. 2015.Most of Christine Swanton’s quotations from and references to Nietzsche are drawn The Genealogy of Morals, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and Beyond Good and Evil. I suggest that Human, All too Human and Daybreak, two of Nietzsche’s most neglected works, provide rich resources for Swanton’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s view of self-love and its defining role in genuinely ethical action. Self-love assumes a central place in these writings, as do its cognate concepts of egoism and vanity. I outline some…Read more
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24Freedom – A silent but significant thread across Taylor’s oeuvrePhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (7): 790-792. 2018.One important and consistent thread of Charles Taylor’s thought that has not yet received the attention it deserves is his philosophy of freedom. Taylor’s 1979 defense of positive liberty in response to Isaiah Berlin’s “Two Conceptions of Liberty” is, of course, well known. But there is a way of seeing reflection on freedom as a thread that runs, sometimes silently but always significantly, through his whole body of work. Taylor can be seen as asking what freedom means, how many varieties it has…Read more
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15Nietzsche's Human All Too Human: A Critical Introduction and GuideEdinburgh University Press. 2020.
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10Cosmopolitan Civility: Global-Local Reflections with Fred Dallmayr (edited book)SUNY Press. 2020.
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29Continuing Questions about Friendship as a Central Moral ValueDialogue and Universalism 28 (2): 65-80. 2018.This article engages Friendship: A Central Moral Value by Michael H. Mitias. It questions Mitias’ distinction between friendship as a moral and theoretical concern as opposed to a practical one. It distinguishes the narrow from the wide meanings of philia in Aristotle’s approach. It looks at the resonances of classical approaches in later theories of friendship, while also attending to the innovations of later thinkers. It suggests that the moral paradigms Mitias delineates might not be as hegem…Read more
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31Women’s Human Rights, Then and Now: Symposium on Eileen Hunt Botting’s Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human RightsPolitical Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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297Women’s Human Rights, Then and Now: Symposium on Eileen Hunt Botting’s Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016) (review)Political Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Julian Young (review)Interpretation 38 (2): 171-176. 2011.
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47Book Review: Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights, by Eileen Hunt Botting, Symposium on Botting’s Eileen Hunt Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights . 306 pp (review)Political Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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27The Chief Inducement? The Idea of Marriage as FriendshipJournal of Applied Philosophy 18 (1): 37-52. 2002.A combination of social forces has thrown marriage into question in westernised societies at the end of the millennium. This uncertainty creates space for new ways of thinking about marriage. In this context, we examine the idea of marriage as friendship. We trace its genealogy in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor and then subject it to critical scrutiny using some of Michel de Montaigne’s ideas. We ask how applicable the ideal of higher friendship is to marria…Read more
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131Circles, Ladders and Stars: Nietzsche on friendshipCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 2 (4): 50-73. 1999.One of the major purposes of this article is to show that friendship was one of Nietzsche's central concerns and that he shared Aristotle's belief that it takes higher and lower forms. Yet Nietzsche's interest in friendship is overlooked in much of the secondary literature. An important reason for this is that this interest is most evident in the works of his middle period, and these tend to be neglected in commentaries on Nietzsche. In the works of the middle period, Nietzsche suggests that the…Read more
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31Mediocrity versus meritocracy: Nietzsche's (mis)reading of ChamfortHistory of Political Thought 19 (3): 457-483. 1998.This article challenges the claim that Friedrich Nietzsche is a good reader of the French moralist, Chamfort, when it comes to Chamfort's politics. Chamfort is a meritocrat rather than the bitter egalitarian Nietzsche protrays him to be. Moreover, the moralist's meritocratic beliefs, his hopes for a new social order and the emergence of a new aristocracy resemble many of Nietzsche's own values. Had Nietzsche read Chamfort as a meritocrat, he could have found much to stimulate and clarify his own…Read more
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190The Roots of RessentimentNew Nietzsche Studies 3 (3-4): 47-61. 1999.Despite its centrality for an understanding of Nietzsche's thought, the term ressentiment does not appear in his writings before Beyond Good and Evil. This article argues that the roots of the idea of ressentiment appear in his middle period writings when he discusses vanity [die Eitelkeit].
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240Back to the future: Marriage as friendship in the thought of Mary wollstonecraftHypatia 14 (3): 78-95. 1999.: If liberal theory is to move forward, it must take the political nature of family relations seriously. The beginnings of such a liberalism appear in Mary Wollstonecraft's work. Wollstonecraft's depiction of the family as a fundamentally political institution extends liberal values into the private sphere by promoting the ideal of marriage as friendship. However, while her model of marriage diminishes arbitrary power in family relations, she seems unable to incorporate enduring sexual relations…Read more
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33Stefan Ramaekers and Judith Suissa , The Claims of Parenting: Reasons, Responsibility and Society . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (1): 9-15. 2013.
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55Odd bedfellows: Nietzsche and Mill on marriageHistory of European Ideas 23 (2-4): 81-104. 1997.This paper examines Nietzsche's views on love and marriage in the works of his middle period. Contrary to the general consensus in the secondary literature regarding Nietzsche's ideas on these matters, it shows that he offers several positive reflections on love and marriage. Indeed, at times he accepts that friendship is possible between the genders and even models marriage on friendship. Modelling marriage on friendship creates an overlap between Nietzsche's thought and that of John Stuart Mil…Read more
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Introduction: timely meditations in an untimely mode—the thought of Charles TaylorIn Charles Taylor, Routledge. pp. 1--28. 2000.
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95Pluralism in practice: the political thought of Charles TaylorCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 5 (3): 98-123. 2002.This review article outlines some of the major contributions made to political theory by Charles Taylor. It focuses on his relationship to liberalism, his contribution to the understanding of democracy and his analysis of the politics of recognition. Several lines of critique of Taylor's thought on these issues are also explored. Some reflections on Taylor's style of theorising about politics are offered, and the question of whether he is a conservative or critical theorist is examined
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43Christine Overall , Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (1): 9-15. 2013.
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60The Impossibility of Perfection: Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics, by Michael Slote (review)Mind 121 (482): 529-532. 2012.
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240Rawlsian resources for animal ethicsEthics and the Environment 12 (1): 1-22. 2007.: This article considers what contribution the work of John Rawls can make to questions about animal ethics. It argues that there are more normative resources in A Theory of Justice for a concern with animal welfare than some of Rawls's critics acknowledge. However, the move from A Theory of Justice to Political Liberalism sees a depletion of normative resources in Rawlsian thought for addressing animal ethics. The article concludes by endorsing the implication of A Theory of Justice that we loo…Read more
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47Nietzsche and the Invention of InventionJournal of Nietzsche Studies 15 (Spring): 1-14. 1998.Friedrich Nietzsche is typically seen as a radical critic of the western philosophical tradition. This article considers why this image is so widely accepted. It argues that part of the reason for its acceptance is that Nietzsche paints a picture of himself as the independent, radical innovator in his later writings. If we look at the works of the middle period, we find that by contrast, he repeatedly situates himself within wider traditions and discusses what he has learned from them.
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60Elizabeth Brake , Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality and the Law . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (1): 9-15. 2013.
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107Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator (review)New Nietzsche Studies 5 (3/4/1/2): 220-224. 2003.
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74Back to the Future: Marriage as Friendship in the Thought of Mary WollstonecraftHypatia 14 (3): 78-95. 1999.If liberal theory is to move forward, it must take the political nature of family relations seriously. The beginnings of such a liberalism appear in Mary Wollstonecraft's work. Wollstonecraft's depiction of the family as a fundamentally political institution extends liberal values into the private sphere by promoting the ideal of marriage as friendship. However, while her model of marriage diminishes arbitrary power in family relations, she seems unable to incorporate enduring sexual relations b…Read more
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University of Notre DameRegular Faculty
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Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |