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21Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports WorldLexington Books. 2011.Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports World provides a tripartite model of sports ethics founded on ancient Greek principles and focused on personal, civic, and global integration. Heather Reid and Mark Holowchak apply these concepts as a "golden mean" between the extremes of the commercialist and recreational models of competition. This treatment is most applicable to students and academics concerned with the philosophy of sport, but will also be of interest to those in sp…Read more
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24Games as Pastimes in Suits’s Utopia: Meaningful Living and the “Metaphysics of Leisure”Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 34 (1): 88-96. 2007.
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43Games as Pastimes in Suits’s Utopia: Meaningful Living and the “Metaphysics of Leisure”Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 34 (1): 88-96. 2007.
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34Fair Play: The Ethics of Sport, 2nd ed. By Robert L. Simon. Published 2004 by Westview Press, Boulder, CO (review)Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 31 (2): 245-247. 2004.
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37An Impromptu Visit to Rien-à-Faire A Tribute to Bernard SuitsJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 35 (2): 111-119. 2008.No abstract
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8Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of education: a utopian dreamRoutledge. 2014.Thomas Jefferson had a profoundly advanced educational vision that went hand in hand with his political philosophy - each of which served the goal of human flourishing. His republicanism marked a break with the conservatism of traditional non-representative governments, characterized by birth and wealth and in neglect of the wants and needs of the people. Instead, Jefferson proposed social reforms which would allow people to express themselves freely, dictate their own course in life, and overse…Read more
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7The Fear, Honor, and Love of God: Thomas Jefferson on Jews, Philosophers, and JesusForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 18 (1): 49-71. 2013.In a letter to Benjamin Rush, Jefferson includes a syllabus—a comparative account of the merits of Jewish morality, ancient philosophy, and the precepts of Jesus. Using the syllabus as a guide, this paper is a critical examination of the influence of ancient ethical and religious thinking on Jefferson’s ethical and religious thinking—viz., Jefferson’s views of the ethics and religion of the Hebrews, the ancient philosophers, and Jesus.
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12Duty to God and Duty to Man: Jefferson on Religion, Natural and SectarianSophia 55 (2): 237-261. 2016.
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16Jefferson’s Platonic RepublicanismPolis 31 (2): 369-386. 2014.That Jefferson execrated Plato in an 1814 letter to friend John Adams. In it, he expresses an unsympathetic, hostile view of Plato’s Republic, and the reasons are several. Nonetheless, Plato’s views on what makes government fundamentally sound are, at base, remarkably similar to Jefferson’s both in substance and sentiment, so much so that it is inconceivable to think that Plato’s Republic had little effect on Jefferson’s political thinking. That makes his execration of Plato difficult to underst…Read more
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8The "Traveller's Consolation": Jefferson, Stoicism and the Stoic argument against EsuriencyMinerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 19 (1). 2015.
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6An Impromptu Visit to Rien-à-Faire A Tribute to Bernard SuitsJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 35 (2): 111-119. 2008.
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6Aggression, Gender, and Sport: Reflections on Sport as a Means of Moral EducationJournal of Social Philosophy 34 (3): 387-399. 2003.
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103Education as Training for Life: Stoic teachers as physicians of the soulEducational Philosophy and Theory 41 (2): 166-184. 2009.This paper is an indirect critique of the practice of American liberal education. I show that the liberal, integrative model that American colleges and universities have adopted, with one key exception, is essentially an approach to education proposed some 2400 years ago by Stoic philosophers. To this end, I focus on a critical sketch of the Stoic model of education—chiefly through the works of Seneca, Epictetus, and Aurelius—that is distinguishable by these features: education as self‐knowing, …Read more
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49Excellence as Athletic IdealInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 15 (1): 153-164. 2001.Liberalism is the view that humans are independent, autonomous, and self-sufficient and, thus, institutional policy is warranted only when it advances these values. As an important thread in moral thought today, liberalism defines a good life as the complete freedom of all people to pursue their own desires, provided that little or no harm is done to others along the way.Moral liberalism also pervades the literature in philosophy of sport today. In this paper, I argue that liberalism as moral po…Read more
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7_Jefferson’s Political Philosophy and the Metaphysics of Utopia_ argues that Jeffersonian republicanism was fundamentally a political philosophy, content-rich and globally applicable. Jefferson’s philosophy is fleshed out and critically analyzed by examining key writings over the years and philosophically important books Jefferson assimilated.
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12The Fear, Honor, and Love of GodForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 18 (1): 49-71. 2013.In a letter to Benjamin Rush, Jefferson includes a syllabus—a comparative account of the merits of Jewish morality, ancient philosophy, and the precepts of Jesus. Using the syllabus as a guide, this paper is a critical examination of the influence of ancient ethical and religious thinking on Jefferson’s ethical and religious thinking—viz., Jefferson’s views of the ethics and religion of the Hebrews, the ancient philosophers, and Jesus.
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5Critical Reasoning & Philosophy: A Concise Guide to Reading, Evaluating, and Writing Philosophical WorksRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.Critical Reasoning & Philosophy is an innovative and clearly written handbook that teaches studnets how to read critically, think critically while they read, and write thoughtful, sound arguments in response.
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7Critical Reasoning and Philosophy: A Concise Guide to Reading, Evaluating, and Writing Philosophical WorksRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.Critical Reasoning and Philosophy is an innovative and clearly written handbook that teaches students how to read critically, think critically while they read, and write thoughtful, sound arguments in response.
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1The Problem of Differentiation and the Science of Dreams in Graeco-Roman AntiquityDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1997.Dreams played a vital role in Graeco-Roman antiquity at all levels of society. Interpreters of prophetic dreams thrived at marketplaces and at religious festivals. Physicians used dreams to facilitate diagnosis. Philosophers talked of dreams revealing one's moral character and emotional dispositions. Many who studied dreams developed rich and elaborate accounts of the various sorts of dreams and their formation. All of this bespeaks a science of dreams in antiquity. Did these ancients, by a thor…Read more
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68Psychotherapy as Science or Knack? A Critique of the Hermeneutic DefenseJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 45 (2): 223-238. 2014.Psychoanalysis, in Freud’s day and our own, has met with and continues to meet with staunch opposition from critics. The most ruinous criticism comes from philosophers, with a special interest in science, who claim psychoanalysis does not measure up to the above-board canons of acceptable scientific practices and, thus, is not scientific. It is common today to direct such criticisms to all metempirical forms of psychotherapy—i.e., psychotherapies that in no way concern themselves with grounding …Read more
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5Freud and Utopia: From Cosmological Narcissism to the Soft Dictatorship of ReasonLexington Books. 2011.Though Freud never makes utopia the subject of any one work, this book is an attempt to tease out Freud's notion of utopia through examination of his group-psychology works such as The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and Its Discontents, Why War? and On the Question of a Weltanschauung. Through tracing out three key blows to human narcissism through scientific advance, it shows the extent to which biological factors impact human psychology and influence the prospect of future human happiness…Read more
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1Fair Play: The Ethics of Sport (by Robert L. Simon)Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 31 245-247. 2004.
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14Dutiful Correspondent: Philosophical Essays on Thomas JeffersonRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2012.In a series of essays that examine Thomas Jefferson’s own writings, Holowchak investigates the always profound and often provocative ideas of this founding father. Dutiful Correspondent explores Thomas Jefferson as a philosopher in his own right. Holowchak expands our view of Jefferson by examining his own words on issues such as race, politics, ethics, education, and the intersection of philosophy and science
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37In Ancient Science and Dreams, M. Andrew Holowchak analyzes the ancient notion of science of dreams throughout Greco-Roman antiquity, from the Classical Greece in the fifth century B.C. to the Roman Republic in the fourth century A.D. Holowchak investigates psycho-physiological accounts, interpretation of prophetic dreams, and the use of dreams in secular and non-secular medicine
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |