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14Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and PhilosophyPhilosophy in Review 19 (5): 371-373. 1999.
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30Christina H. Tarnopolsky , Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 32 (2): 145-148. 2012.
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6The Lesser Good: The Problem of Justice in Plato and LevinasLexington Books. 2009.The Lesser Good represents a timely meditation on the incapacity of mere laws and state politics to adequately address the ethical exigencies that arise in human life. Through the philosophies of Plato and post-Holocaust phenomenologist, Emmanual Levinas, Hamblet demonstrates that state models of justice strive for the lesser good of ordered continuity of their forms, rather than promoting citizen internalization, of the "higher goods" of ethics—humility, self-overcoming, and compassion for the …Read more
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Shaken Heroes: The Secret Orthodoxy of the "Heretic"Eidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 16
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4Paradise Lost and the Question of LegitimacyRatio 17 (1): 45-59. 2004.This paper reconstructs the deficiencies of formal democracies to explain the internal injustices of the modern state, the self‐righteous swaggering foreign policy of Western powers, and the dangerously over‐simplified, polar logic characterizing the war rhetoric of the modern era. In a brief tour through the non‐liberal tradition of democratic thought, drawing connections between the tragic mythological origins of Western understandings of self and world, the paper attempts to demonstrate that …Read more
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Nancy Sherman, Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind (review)Philosophy in Review 28 (6): 437-439. 2008.
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Quantum field theory is generally accepted by the modern scientific community as the most accurate paradigm for understanding the mystery of reality. This theory revolutionizes what we know as ’matter’ and how material things are connected. But is also confirms an ancient philosophical and ethical truth: the unfathomable mystery of being. Quantum field theory demonstrates that beings be in such a manner that their composite reality evades human cognition. Quantum field theory forces a rethinking…Read more
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A Pathological Goodness: Emmanuel Levinas’ Post-holocaust EthicsMinerva 10 172-196. 2006.This essay offers a detailed and comprehensive study of the ethical thought of post-Holocaustphenomenologist, Emmanuel Levinas, through the lens of human passions. Its purpose is to reveal thestrengths, ambiguities and risks inherent in the practice of an ethos of infinite generosity, in the modernera
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Rebecca Pates, The End of Punishment: Philosophical Considerations on An Institution (review)Philosophy in Review 28 (3): 216-218. 2008.
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3Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical StudyLexington Books. 2010.Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study reveals the economic and religious underpinnings to modern notions of crime and punishment. Contra Michel Foucault's claim that modern penal practices witness a revolution in Western moral sensibilities, awakened by Enlightenment ideals, Hamblet shows that punishment practices in the West grew out of Protestant moralizations, capitalist greed, and the need for a cheap labor pool
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Alienation and wholeness: Spinoza, Hans Jonas, and the human genome project on the push and shove of mortal beingAnalecta Husserliana 91 57-65. 2006.
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45Order: Divine Principle of Excellence or Perfect Death for Living Beings?Kritike 3 (1): 61-71. 2009.Order is a value highly treasured and deeply embedded in the Westernworldview. Since the archaic Greeks gazed up at the night sky andnoted the reliable, stable movements of the heavens, order hasremained a cherished commodity in the lives of gods and humans. This paper traces the history of that beloved value and then places in question the worth of its rigorous, changeless solidity in the lives of living beings.
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