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450Wisdom in love: Kierkegaard and the ancient quest for emotional integrityArs Disputandi 6 1566-5399. 2006.
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1195Skepticism and perceptual faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley Cavell on seeing and believingTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (3). 2007.: Thoreau's journal contains a number of passages which explore the nature of perception, developing a response to skeptical doubt. The world outside the human mind is real, and there is nothing illusory about its perceived beauty and meaning. In this essay, I draw upon the work of Stanley Cavell (among others) in order to frame Thoreau's reflections within the context of the skeptical questions he seeks to address. Value is not a subjective projection, but it also cannot be perceived without th…Read more
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Translator's Introduction: Rilke and the Poetics of RevelationIn Rainer Maria Rilke & Rick Anthony Furtak (eds.), Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus': A New English Version, With a Philosophical Introduction, University of Scranton Press. pp. 1-30. 2007.
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790The Kierkegaardian ideal of 'essential knowing' and the scandal of modern philosophyIn Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. pp. 87-110. 2010.
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981Martha C. Nussbaum’s "Political Emotions"Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (4): 643-650. 2014.Martha Nussbaum’s new book Political Emotions is a contribution to political philosophy and, simultaneously, a moral-psychological study of the emotions. In it, she revisits some of the most prominent themes in her 2004 book Hiding from Humanity and her 2001 treatise, Upheavals of Thought. As Nussbaum points out in the opening pages of Political Emotions, one of her goals in this work is to answer a call issued by John Rawls for a “reasonable moral psychology” that would be conceptually refined …Read more
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421Platonic ErosIn Kierkegaard and the Greek World, I: Socrates and Plato, ed. by Jon Stewart and Katalin Nun, . pp. 105-114. 2010.Plato's 'Symposium': Kierkegaard and Platonic Eros
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901A cure for worry? Kierkegaardian faith and the insecurity of human existenceInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 72 (3): 157-175. 2012.Abstract In his discourses on ‘the lily of the field and the bird of the air,’ Kierkegaard presents faith as the best possible response to our precarious and uncertain condition, and as the ideal way to cope with the insecurities and concerns that his readers will recognize as common features of human existence. Reading these discourses together, we are introduced to the portrait of a potential believer who, like the ‘divinely appointed teachers’—the lily and the bird—succeeds in leading a lif…Read more
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783Kierkegaard and Greek philosophyIn John Lippitt & George Pattison (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Kierkegaard, Oxford University Press. pp. 129-149. 2013.This chapter analyses Soren Kierkegaard's thoughts and opinions about ancient Greek philosophy. It examines the significance of Kierkegaard's references to Greek philosophy in his writings and suggests that his use of classical thought was part of his effort to define his own intellectual project. The chapter investigates how Greek philosophy influenced Kierkegaard's works and views about ethics, existential thought, Socratic faith, love, and virtue, and also considers what Kierkegaard believed …Read more
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566The Value of Being: Thoreau on Appreciating the Beauty of the WorldIn Rick Anthony Furtak, Jonathan Ellsworth & James D. Reid (eds.), Thoreau's importance for philosophy, Fordham University Press. pp. 112-126. 2012.
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2Truth, Love, and Falsity: Kierkegaard, the Stoics, and the Reliability of EmotionDissertation, The University of Chicago. 2003.According to Stoic moral psychology, emotions are cognitive responses to perceived value in the contingent world. This dissertation begins by defending a contemporary version of this descriptive theory; it then proceeds with a critique of the Stoics' normative thesis that emotions involve amorally deplorable kind of cognitive error. I distinguish two senses in which this thesis is historically put forward, and show that both are thematically pertinent. The structural variant, as I call it, is a …Read more
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18Review of C. Stephen Evans, Kierkegaard: An Introduction (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (11). 2009.
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