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7Conceiving evil: a phenomenology of perpetrationAlgora Publishing. 2014.What is it that permits us to see others as 'evil'? This book argues that it's our epistemological framework, which also resituates our own moral compass and reframes our moral world such that we can justify performing violent deeds, which we would readily demonize in others, as the heroics of eradicating evil. When conflict is understood positively as the confrontation of differences, an unavoidable and indeed desirable consequence of the rich tapestry of earthly life, then a discussion can ope…Read more
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4Book Review: Stivers, R. (2008). The Illusion of Freedom and Equality. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 102 (review)Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 29 (5): 433-434. 2009.
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8The Tragedy of Platonic Ethics and the Fall of SocratesEthic@ - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 2 (2). 2003.This paper considers the use of myth in the Platonic dialogues. It seeks to demonstrate that Plato takesup the task of rewriting the old myths, not in order to clarify the real truth about ancient tales, but to make thosetales serve higher—ethical—ends. Thus Plato makes a valiant effort to replace the old "truths" in order to displaceand overcome ethically dangerous assumptions in the old tales. But I shall demonstrate that, despite the changesin mythical content, the old tropes endure in the ne…Read more
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7A pathological goodness: Emmanuel Levinas' post-holocaust ethicsMinerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 10 (1). 2006.This essay offers a detailed and comprehensive study of the ethical thought of post-Holocaust phenomenologist, Emmanuel Levinas, through the lens of human passions. Its purpose is to reveal the strengths, ambiguities and risks inherent in the practice of an ethos of infinite generosity, in the modern era.
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6On sovereignty and trespass: The moral failure of Levinas' phenomenological ethicsMinerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 8 (1). 2004.Mortal being is not being pure and simple, not posit-ive being alone, as the lived experience suggests it to be. Living being is always a living of mortal flesh, a living taunted by death as “the nothingness that wearies it.” This taunting doggedly pursues the living being and turns it inward in what Levinas terms “inter-esse.” In living its mortality, essence is always inter-esse — inside of itself — in the for-itself of self-interest. This paper attempts to track the opening of essence from it…Read more
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The Ambiguity of HomeDissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. 2000.This dissertation attempts to explain the violent history of the West as a function, of the ways in which the project of identity formation is carried out in individuals and in human communities. The work suggests that the "home" site of identity formation, whatever its size and context, may assert itself in the world and over against other alien identity structures according to a "logic of domination" that was communicated in, and is bequeathed by, ancient rituals of violence that were practice…Read more
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11Paradise lost and the question of legitimacyRatio 17 (1). 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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1Michael Mack, German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (1): 39-41. 2004.
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Eric R. Wolf, Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis (review)Philosophy in Review 21 386-388. 2001.
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10Reversing Plato's Anti-DemocratismIn Erich Kofmel (ed.), Anti-Democratic Thought, Imprint Academic. pp. 35. 2008.
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14Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and PhilosophyPhilosophy in Review 19 (5): 371-373. 1999.
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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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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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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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