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Subjectivity
ISBN-13:
9781498513197
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
306
Autor:
R. J. Snell
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.
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.
Introduction
Response by Lee Trepanier
Response by Matthew B. O’Brien
Response by Mark Shiffman
Christopher O. Tollefsen
Response by Amy Gilbert Richards
Response by Richard Velkley
Response by Phillip Cary
Response by Daniel Mark
Response by Jeremy D. Wilkins
- Subjectivity and Metaphysics in Voegelin’s Reading of Aristotle
Response by Lee Trepanier
- Objectivity as Authentic Subjectivity
Response by Matthew B. O’Brien
- Subjectivity without Subjectivism: Revisiting the Is/Ought Gap
Response by Mark Shiffman
- First and Third Person Standpoints in the New Natural Law Theory
Christopher O. Tollefsen
Response by Amy Gilbert Richards
- The Claims of Subjectivity and the Limits of Politics
Response by Richard Velkley
- The Turn to the Subject as the Turn to the Person
Response by Phillip Cary
- Personalism and Common Good: Thomistic Political Philosophy and the Turn to Subjectivity
Response by Daniel Mark
- Existential Authority, Belonging, and the Commissioning that is Subjectivity: A Medieval Philosophical Anthropology
Response by Jeremy D. Wilkins