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21Christian deism in eighteenth century EnglandInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 75 (3): 205-222. 2014.In eighteenth century England, there were thinkers who said they were Christian deists and claimed pure, original Christianity was deism. Most scholars do not believe these thinkers were sincere about their religious beliefs, but there are many good reasons to believe they were. Three English deists have the best claim to be considered Christian deists because they alone called themselves Christian deists or called their ideas those of a Christian deist. These three thinkers, Matthew Tindal, Tho…Read more
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15The Piety of the English Deists: Their Personal Relationship with an Active GodIntellectual History Review 22 (2): 181-197. 2012.No abstract
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15Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History (review)Buddhist-Christian Studies 20 (1): 299-303. 2000.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Buddhist-Christian Studies 20 (2000) 299-303 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History. Edited by Thomas A. Tweed and Stephen Prothero. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 416 pp. Although this book is not about interreligious dialogue per se, it makes several important contributions to it. Two of the necessities for successful interrel…Read more
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15The Spirituality of the English and American Deists: How God Became GoodLexington Books. 2023.The English and American deists rejected Christianity, which they believed portrayed God as cruel. In The Spirituality of the English and American Deists, Waligore shows how the deists were the first group of modern thinkers who were spiritual but not religious.
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10‘Let’s Bless our father, Let’s adore God’: the nature of God in the prayers and hymns to God of the French Revolutionary deistsInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 84 (3): 216-234. 2023.While many scholars have realized that the Enlightenment period was much more religious than previously thought, the deists are still seen as basically secular figures who believed in a distant and inactive deity. This article shows that the hundred and thirteen French Revolutionary deists who wrote prayers and hymns to God believed in a caring, loving, and active deity. They maintained that God wanted people to be free, and so God actively helped the French Revolution by leading the French armi…Read more
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The Joy of Torture: Hellenistic and Indian Philosophy on the Doctrine That the Sage is Always Happy Even If TorturedDissertation, Syracuse University. 1995.Prominent in Hellenistic philosophy is the debate over whether the sage is really always happy even if tortured. This doctrine that the tortured sage is happy is important because the Hellenistic philosophers used this case to debate the power of moral virtue in a person's life. Modern pain research shows that it is indeed possible to be happy while being tortured because pain is not purely a sensory phenomenon. Based on this modern research, I investigate the positions of Epicurus, the Cynics, …Read more
Joseph Waligore
University Wisconsin
University Wisconsin
Alumnus, 1995
Areas of Specialization
Philosophical Traditions |
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophical Traditions |
History of Western Philosophy |