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3Autonomy, Moral Education, and the Carving of a National IdentityIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered, Suny Press. pp. 117-132. 2016.
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Über das Wesen des Gelehrten im Kontext der WissenschaftslehreIn Johann Gottlieb Fichte (ed.), Über das Wesen des Gelehrten, Verlag Karl Alber. 2020.
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30Fichte’s Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays by Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (review)Review of Metaphysics 68 (3): 646-647. 2015.
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21Individual rights in Schleiermacher’s limited communitarian stateBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (4): 687-706. 2022.In his lectures on ethics and on the state Schleiermacher develops a theory of a limited communitarian state, one that purports to balance individual interests and rights with the more general aims...
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23Hegel’s Introduction to the System: Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and Psychology. By Robert E. WoodAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 89 (4): 749-751. 2015.
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19Hegel’s Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity. By Sally Sedgwick (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 53 (2): 211-214. 2013.
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20Fichte’s Kenotic ChristologyIdealistic Studies 22 (1): 39-51. 1992.According to Fichte, neither antithesis nor synthesis is possible without an absolute thesis, or what he called a thetic judgment. The only examples Fichte offers are ‘I am I’ and ‘self is free’. These judgments are absolute judgments, whereby the subject is neither equated with nor opposed to anything, but simply posited absolutely or as identical to itself. Thetic judgments presuppose no ground of conjunction or distinction, yet formally they seem to assert the identity of the subject and the …Read more
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33The Intolerable God: Kant’s Theological Journey. By Christopher J. InsoleAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92 (1): 183-187. 2018.
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20This paper proposes an interpretation of the rainfall example in which Aristotle does not himself think that crop growth is the final cause of rain. The grounds for this interpretation will be an ‘elemental teleology’ which affirms that the only final cause of the movements of the elements is the goal of reaching their proper places of rest. Textual evidence for the presence of this doctrine in Aristotle’s thought is examined in the first two thirds of the paper. My interpretation is then offere…Read more
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22Hegel's Theory of Imagination (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (4): 494-495. 2005.
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13Schelling’s Original InsightAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77 (2): 213-232. 2003.This paper concerns the way in which the transition from negative to positive philosophy is executed in Schelling’s critique of modern philosophy. Schelling’s original insight is that the transition occurs within negative philosophy by means of a twofold experience within philosophical reflection: (1) recognizing the failure of the idealist project of the conceptual determination of Being, and (2) the reversal of the idealist conception of the relation between concepts and their objects. I argue…Read more
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46Schelling’s Original InsightAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77 (2): 213-232. 2003.This paper concerns the way in which the transition from negative to positive philosophy is executed in Schelling’s critique of modern philosophy. Schelling’s original insight is that the transition occurs within negative philosophy by means of a twofold experience within philosophical reflection: (1) recognizing the failure of the idealist project of the conceptual determination of Being, and (2) the reversal of the idealist conception of the relation between concepts and their objects. I argue…Read more
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21Freedom and Moral Agency in the Young SchleiermacherReview of Metaphysics 58 (4): 843-869. 2005.IN HIS EARLY, UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS ON ETHICS, Schleiermacher sketched the framework for a theory of human agency in which he defends a soft determinist view of freedom. He developed his theory as an alternative to noumenal causality, which he had come to reject as inconsistent with a comprehensive scientific conception of the world. Even as a young student, Schleiermacher was convinced that some form of naturalism is inescapable—we are firmly rooted within nature and history—and that, accordingl…Read more
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