Subjectivity (eBook)

Ancient and Modern

Steven F. McGuire, R. J. Snell (Herausgeber)

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2016
306 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1319-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Modern thought is sometimes presented as introducing a “turn to the subject” absent from ancient and medieval thought, although the schools of thought associated with Bernard Lonergan, Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and the new natural law theory often find subjectivity already operative in the older forms. In this volume, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought.

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In Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism and moral relativism by divorcing the human mind from objective reality. Yet, some important thinkers of the last half-century--including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan--consider a subjective starting point and claim to find a similar position in ancient and medieval thought. If correct, their positions suggest that one can adopt the subjective turn and remain true to the tradition. This is a timely question. The common good of our polity encounters a situation in which many believe that there is no objective reality to which human minds and wills ought to conform, a conclusion that suggests we can define and construct reality. In light of this, the notion of a natural or objective reality to which human beings ought to conform becomes particularly vital. Should we, then, adopt the modern turn to subjectivity and argue for objective truth and moral order on its basis, or reject the subjective turn as part of the problem and return to an earlier approach that grounds these things in nature or some other external reality? Critics of modern subjectivity argue that the modern turn to subjectivity must be abandoned because it is the very source of the nominalism that threatens to undermine liberal democracy. Others argue, however, that subjectivity itself logically leads to the recognition of an objective reality beyond the mind of the individual. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F. McGuire, this collection will be of particular interest to intellectual historians, political philosophers, theologians, and philosophers.

Autor

R. J. Snell is professor of philosophy at Eastern University and executive director of the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good.Steven F. McGuire is assistant professor of political science at Eastern University and a research director at the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good.

Inhalt

IntroductionSubjectivity and Metaphysics in Voegelin’s Reading of AristotleSteven F. McGuireResponse by Lee TrepanierObjectivity as Authentic SubjectivityElizabeth A. MurrayResponse by Matthew B. O’BrienSubjectivity without Subjectivism: Revisiting the Is/Ought GapFirst and Third Person Standpoints in the New Natural Law TheoryChristopher O. Tollefsen Response by Amy Gilbert RichardsThe Claims of Subjectivity and the Limits of Politics The Turn to the Subject as the Turn to the PersonDavid WalshResponse by Phillip CaryPersonalism and Common Good: Thomistic Political Philosophy and the Turn to SubjectivityV. Bradley LewisResponse by Daniel MarkExistential Authority, Belonging, and the Commissioning that is Subjectivity: A Medieval Philosophical Anthropology James GreenawayResponse by Jeremy D. Wilkins

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.3.2016
• Co-Autor: Phillip Cary, Amy Gilbert Richards, Mark Shiffman, Christopher O. Tollefsen, Lee Trepanier, Richard Velkley, David Walsh, Jeremy D. Wilkins, Sherif Girgis, James Greenaway, Ralph C. Hancock, V. Bradley Lewis, DANIEL MARK, Steven F. McGuire, Elizabeth A. Murray, Matthew B. O'Brien
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Ancient Philosophy • Aristotle • Bernard Lonergan • Epistemology • Eric Voegelin • Metaphysics • modern philosophy • New Natural Law • phenomenology of consciousness • Political Philosophy • Thomas Aquinas • thumos
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1319-0 / 1498513190
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1319-7 / 9781498513197