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2Philosophy at the gymnasiumCornell University Press. 2024.Philosophy at the Gymnasium sets Greek moral philosophy in its original context-Athenian gyms-to understand how training for the body sparked training for the mind. It explores Socratic dialogue set in gyms, civic and mental health in Plato's works, and Olympic victors as Aristotle's model for the happy life.
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12Philosophy for All in Augustine’s DialoguesPrecollege Philosophy and Public Practice 1 (3): 21-39. 2021.The philosophy for children (P4C) and public philosophy movements seek to extend philosophy to traditionally marginalized groups. Yet public perceptions of philosophy as an elite activity provide an obstacle to this work. Such perceptions rest, in part, on further assumptions about what philosophy is and how it is conducted. To address these concerns, I look to the early philosophical dialogues of Augustine of Hippo (Contra Academicos, De beata vita, De ordine, Soliloquia), which present an expe…Read more
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267Boethius, "On the Holy Trinity" (De Trinitate), translationMediaeval Logic and Philosophy. 2004.Translation of Boethius, De Trinitate
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125Boethius, "Whether Father" (Utrum Pater), translationMediaeval Logic and Philosophy. 2004.Translation of Boethius, Utrum Pater
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Ethical philosophy was born in the gyms of Athens. This book returns a body of abstract thought to its original context, to understand how training for the body sparked training for the mind. We will use archaeology to reconstruct the reality of ancient athletics and literary texts to critique philosophers’ idealized versions of this reality. We will explore a cluster of questions about the nature of happiness (eudaimonia), the role of human excellence (arete) in this life and what forms of trai…Read more
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Augustine and the DialogueDissertation, . 2012.One cannot understand the literary form of a dialogue without understanding its philosophical project and vice versa. This dissertation seeks to establish how Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues work as dialogues. Each of these works, Contra Academicos, De beata vita and De ordine, pursues two streams of inquiry: one dialectical, one self-reflexive. The first uses aporetic debates to identify problems with individuals' current beliefs. The second reflects on the act of debate as an instance of rat…Read more
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Michael Foley, Against the Academics: St. Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 1 (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1 36. 2020.
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1Carol Harrison, Augustine on Music, Sense, Affect and Voice (Reading Augustine) (review)Theology 123 225-227. 2020.
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From Augustine to EriugenaIn Thomas Williams (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 9-31. 2018.
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23Bringing Undergraduates to Preschool: An Ethics Course for the Very YoungIn Thomas E. Wartenberg (ed.), Philosophy in Classrooms and Beyond: New Approaches to Picture-Book Philosophy. pp. 1-16. 2019.
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18Socrates at the Wrestling SchoolIn Heather L. Reid (ed.), Athletics, Gymnastics, and Agon in Plato. pp. 51-66. 2020.
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23Ethics for the Very Young: A Philosophy Curriculum for Early Childhood EducationRowman & Littlefield. 2019.Can you be brave if you’re afraid? Why do we “know better” and do things anyway? What makes a family? Philosophers have wrestled with such questions for centuries. They are also the stuff of playground debates. Ethics for the Very Young uses the perplexities of young children’s lives to spark philosophical dialogue. Its lessons scaffold discussion through executive function games (Telephone, Red Light Green Light), dialogic reading of picture books and Reggio Emilia’s art-based inquiry. In the p…Read more
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6Michael P. Foley, translation and commentary, On the Happy Life (review)Augustinian Studies 51 (1): 137-140. 2020.
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24Art & Dialogue: An Experiment in Pre-k PhilosophyAnalytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 37 (2): 26-35. 2017.Early educators are in a bind. Teacher education programs are calling on them more and more to help students practice critical thinking and develop intellectual character ; yet school funding depends on meeting Common Core standards, which do not explicitly assess critical thinking until the high-school level. Add to that an over-engineered content curriculum, and thinking becomes a luxury that is quickly lost amid more immediate concerns. As a result, we are raising a generation of “excellent s…Read more
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14Joseph Pucci, Augustine’s Virgilian Retreat: Reading the Auctores at Cassiciacum (review)Augustinian Studies 49 (1): 162-169. 2018.
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12Augustine and the DialogueCambridge University Press. 2018.Contrary to the scholarly consensus, Augustine and the Dialogue argues that Augustine's dialogues, with their inconclusive debates and dramatic shifts in focus, betray a sophisticated pedagogical method which combines strategies for 'un-learning' and self-reflection with a willingness to proceed via provisional answers. By shifting the focus from doctrinal content to questions of method, Kenyon seeks to reframe scholarly discussions of Augustine's earliest surviving body of works. This approach …Read more
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Erik Kenyon
Friends Academy
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Friends AcademyRegular Faculty
Cornell University
PhD, 2012
Winter Park, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
Normative Ethics |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |