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This article pursues an antihermeneutic conception of Socratic irony that troubles the borders between pedagogical authority and humility. One of the most tenacious ways of troping the teacher-student relation, Socratic irony is often figured as a way for a masterful teacher to exercise authority over a student. Drawing on the writings of Søren…[Read more]
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Christopher Long deposited The Liberal Arts Endeavor: The Arts of Liberty in a Time of Uncertainty on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months ago
Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s articulation of education as an attempt to take responsibility for a world out of joint, this short essay advocates for an approach to General Education rooted in a renewed commitment to cultivate capacities that enable citizens to discern truth from falsity, advocate for those who are unable to advocate for themselves,…[Read more]
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As my inaugural editorial note for the Journal of General Education, this short essay outlines the arts of liberty as a cultivated activity at the heart of General education in the United States. The challenge of the general education endeavor is to teach the virtues of the arts of liberty at scale, recognizing that our communities are enriched…[Read more]
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Christopher Long deposited Care of Death in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoA homage in the guise of an essay, this is the story of the last course Reiner Schürmann taught. As a text, it attempts to describe, situate, and come to terms with the power of Schürmann’s teaching in the context of his last lectures on Heidegger’s Being and Time. But if it is to be true to the deepest lessons of Schürmann’s thinking, it will als…[Read more]
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Christopher Long deposited Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics: Performative Publishing and the Cultivation of Community in the group
Public Philosophy Journal on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe emergence of new platforms for public communication, public deliberation, and public action presents new possibilities for forming, organizing, and mobilizing public bodies, which invite philosophical reflection concerning the standards we currently look to for coordinating public movements and for evaluating their effects. Developing a broad…[Read more]
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Christopher Long deposited Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics: Performative Publishing and the Cultivation of Community in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe emergence of new platforms for public communication, public deliberation, and public action presents new possibilities for forming, organizing, and mobilizing public bodies, which invite philosophical reflection concerning the standards we currently look to for coordinating public movements and for evaluating their effects. Developing a broad…[Read more]
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Christopher Long deposited On Touch and Life in the De Anima in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoAlthough Aristotle is often thought to give canonical voice to the priority of vision as the most noble of the human powers of perceiving, this article demonstrates that in Aristotle, touch has a priority vision lacks. By tracing the things Aristotle says about touch in the De Anima and specifically the manner in which he identifies touch as a…[Read more]
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Christopher Long deposited Who Let the Dogs Out: Tracking the Philosophical Life Among the Wolves and Dogs of the Republic in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFollowing the scent of wolves and dogs in Plato’s Republic, this essay attempts to track a path that leads us to one of the central teachings of the text itself: that the philosophical life is situated precariously between the tyrannical tendencies of the wolf and the blind obedience of the well-trained dog.
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A homage in the guise of an essay, this is the story of the last course Reiner Schürmann taught. As a text, it attempts to describe, situate, and come to terms with the power of Schürmann’s teaching in the context of his last lectures on Heidegger’s Being and Time. But if it is to be true to the deepest lessons of Schürmann’s thinking, it will als…[Read more]
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Christopher Long deposited On Touch and Life in the De Anima on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months ago
Although Aristotle is often thought to give canonical voice to the priority of vision as the most noble of the human powers of perceiving, this article demonstrates that in Aristotle, touch has a priority vision lacks. By tracing the things Aristotle says about touch in the De Anima and specifically the manner in which he identifies touch as a…[Read more]
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Feedback and Feature Requests on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLike!
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Christopher Long deposited Who Let the Dogs Out: Tracking the Philosophical Life Among the Wolves and Dogs of the Republic on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months ago
Following the scent of wolves and dogs in Plato’s Republic, this essay attempts to track a path that leads us to one of the central teachings of the text itself: that the philosophical life is situated precariously between the tyrannical tendencies of the wolf and the blind obedience of the well-trained dog.
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Christopher Long deposited The Peripatetic Method: Walking with Woodbridge, Thinking with Aristotle in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 9 years agoDrawing on the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the remarkable series of lectures Frederick J. E. Woodbridge gave at Union College in 1930 entitled, simply, “The Philosophy of Aristotle,” but published under the title Aristotle’s Vision of Nature, this paper identifies the path of Aristotle’s thinking, its method, as a “peripatetic legomenol…[Read more]
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