Works by Ronald L. Hall
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- Afterthoughts.William Hasker,Ronald L. Hall,Michael Tooley &James P. Sterba -2020 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 87 (3):229-243.
- Images of natural evil.Ronald L. Hall -2020 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 87 (3):213-216.
- The Human Embrace: The Love of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Love
Kierkegaard, Cavell, Nussbaum.Ronald L. Hall -1999 - Pennsylvania State University Press.Starting from Søren Kierkegaard's insight that fully accepting the human condition requires one to live with the persistent temptation to escape from it, Ronald Hall finds similar concerns reflected in the work of two modern-day philosophers, Stanley Cavell and Martha Nussbaum, who equally find in a philosophy of love and marriage the key to understanding how humans may achieve happiness in the acceptance of their humanity. All three thinkers follow a "logic of paradox" in showing how success in the human (...) quest to be human depends crucially on the struggle humans experience with the ever-present opportunities to pursue alternative paths. What Kierkegaard called "living existentially" can be achieved only after confronting and refusing the possibilities of living in "aesthetic," "ethical," or even "religious" denial of one's true humanity. By creating this dialogue between the nineteenth-century Danish thinker and two eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Hall reveals the continuing relevance of Kierkegaard's thought to our own age and its cogency as an interpretation of the human predicament. (shrink) - It's a Wonderful Life: Reflections on Wittgenstein's Last Words.Ronald L. Hall -2010 -Philosophical Investigations 33 (4):285-302.On his deathbed, Wittgenstein is reported to have said, upon hearing that his friends were coming for a visit, “Tell them I've had a wonderful life.” Malcolm found this puzzling, given that Wittgenstein seemed to be fiercely unhappy. I find my way into these words against the backdrop of the Hollywood film It's a Wonderful Life and Wittgenstein's famous remark, to wit, “Man has to awaken to wonder . . . Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.” (...) Along the way I discuss Plato's praise of wonder, Nietzsche's attack on science, and Kierkegaard's remark about finding the sublime in the pedestrian. I conclude that Wittgenstein did have a wonderful life insofar as he was fully awake to wonder, what I call the wonder of our words. (shrink)
- Kierkegaard as Theologian: Recovering My Self.Ronald L. Hall -1997 - McGill Queens University Press.The companion volume to Arnold Come's Kierkegaard as Humanist, Kierkegaard as Theologian is an exploration of Søren Kierkegaard's deliberately Christian writings, from Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (1846) to For Self-Examination (1851). In his later writings Kierkegaard sought to "get further forward in the direction of discovering the Christianity of the New Testament" to resolve his own spiritual crisis. His struggle to understand how authentic theologizing relates to the spiritual struggles of personal faith led him to a discussion of the (...) three basic foci of his theologizing: the self as gift, that is, a creation "out of nothing" from God; the self as failure, which brings on a state of despair; and the self redeemed by God's love and healing compassion. Come probes some of the problematic aspects of Kierkegaard's theology. He addresses the question of whether God's high intentions and demands for human achievement of selfhood and spirituality justify the unspeakable sufferings entailed in human failures to fulfil those demands. He also explores the puzzling relation between Kierkegaard's seeming assignment of exclusivity to the Christian understanding and experiences of both sin and salvation as well as his assumption of the capacity of humans to recognize the need to turn to the eternal that is immanent in every human consciousness - so-called Religiousness A. (shrink)
- Poteat’s Voice.Ronald L. Hall -2008 -Tradition and Discovery 38 (2):19-22.The focus of these remarks is on the impact that Personal Knowledge and Philosophical Investigations had in shaping Bill Poteat’s philosophical voice. Of the two works, I claim that, for good or ill, it was Personal Knowledge that had the more profound influence on Poteat. Of course, both sources had profound influence. What makes Personal Knowledge more profound is that his use of it, at least in those early years, was more indirect than his direct and explicit use of Wittgenstein’s (...) ideas. Following Bill’s lead, there is much that Polanyians can learn from Wittgenstein and vice versa. (shrink)
- The analogy between ethics and science.Ronald L. Hall -1984 -Zygon 19 (1):83-85.
- The Primacy Of The Explicit: On Keeping Romanticism At Bay.Ronald L. Hall -1997 -Tradition and Discovery 24 (2):29-39.Polanyi’s claim that a wholly tacit knowledge is possible is contested. Polanyi’s praise for the tacit, and his critique of the ideal of total explicitness, harbors a threat of Romanticism, which, in turn, may become a threat to the value of the explicit itself, and ultimately a political threat, something that Heidegger’s anti-Enlightenment philosophy and political life manifested all too dramatically. Polanyians must not lose sight of the primacy of the explicit for personal existence, something that Polanyi’s work need not (...) undermine, and indeed, that has the resources to affirm and support. (shrink)
- An Apology for the "Second Edition".Ronald L. Hall -1995 -Tradition and Discovery 22 (3):33-35.
- Arnold B. come, Kierkegaard as theologian: Recovering my self.Ronald L. Hall -2000 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 47 (2):121-124.
- Critical and Postcritical Objectivity.Ronald L. Hall -1993 -The Personalist Forum 9 (2):67-80.No categories
- Editorial preface vol. 70.2.Ronald L. Hall -2011 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 70 (2):107-108.Editorial preface vol. 70.2 Content Type Journal Article Category Editorial Pages 1-2 DOI 10.1007/s11153-011-9321-6 Authors Ronald L. Hall, Department of Philosophy, Stetson University, DeLand, FL, USA Journal International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Online ISSN 1572-8684 Print ISSN 0020-7047.
- Freedom: 'Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre'.Ronald L. Hall -1980 -Philosophy Research Archives 6:358-371.In this essay I argue: that Sartre's account of freedom falls back into the Cartesian problems it is explicitly designed to escape ; that Sartre simply pushes the old Cartesian problem of how a spontaneity can act on an object back to the level of pre-reflective original freedom, without solving it; that Merleau-Ponty's account does indeed move us beyond the Cartesian dilemmas by rooting freedom in its pre-reflective ground of meaning, which, in essence, is the body's pre-reflective relationality to the (...) world; and that Sartre's account of freedom rests only on the obstacle/task dialectic while Merleau-Ponty's account seems to rest on the richer dialectics of both obstacle/task and giving/receiving. (shrink)
- In the Shadow of the Enlightenment, The Plight of the Humanities in an Age of Scientific Objectivism.Ronald L. Hall -1985 -Tradition and Discovery 13 (1):19-25.
- I think, therefore I may not exist: Cavell, skepticism, and the melodrama of the unknown woman.Ronald L. Hall -2003 -Philosophical Investigations 26 (2):149–166.
- Kierkegaarad and the Paradoxical Logic of Worldly Faith.Ronald L. Hall -1995 -Faith and Philosophy 12 (1):40-53.I argue here that Kierkegaardian faith is essentially, albeit paradoxically, worldly---that Kierkegaardian faith is a form of world-affirmation. A correlate of this claim is that faithlessness of any kind is ultimately a form of aesthetic resignation grounded in a deep seated world-alienation. The paradox of faith’s worldliness is found in the fact that, for Kierkegaard, faith both excludes and includes resignation in itself. I make sense of this paradox by appealing to Kierkegaard’s idea of “an annulled possibility,” and conclude that (...) faith’s love of the world is an affirmation via a double negation. (shrink)
- Moving places: a comment on the traveling Vietnam Memorial.Ronald L. Hall -2001 -Philosophy and Geography 4 (2):219-224.(2001). Moving places: A comment on the traveling Vietnam Memorial. Philosophy & Geography: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 219-224.
- Michael Polanyi on art and religion: Some critical reflections on meaning.Ronald L. Hall -1982 -Zygon 17 (1):9-18.This paper is a critique of the theory of meaning in art and religion that Michael Polanyi developed in his last work entitled Meaning. After giving a brief summary of Polanyi’s theory of art, I raise two serious difficulties, not with the theory itself, but with the claims Polanyi makes about the relation of meaning in art to science and religion. Regarding the first difficulty, I argue that Polanyi betrays an earlier insight when in Meaning he attempts to dissociate meaning (...) in art from meaning in science; instead I argue that both science and art are aesthetic enterprises. Regarding the second, I argue that Polanyi’s account of religion is an aesthetic reduction, that meaning in religion, at least in the Western tradition, is not so much an aesthetic as it is an existential matter. (shrink)
- No Doubt About It.Ronald L. Hall -2020 -Philosophical Forum 51 (3):279-295.
- On Being Known: God and the Private-I.Ronald L. Hall -2019 -Sophia 59 (4):621-636.Given recent discussions of personal privacy, or more particularly, its invasion via the internet, it is not surprising to find the issue of personal privacy emerging regarding God’s relation to our private lives. Two different and opposing views of this God-person relation have surfaced in the literature: ‘God and Privacy’ by Falls-Corbitt and Michael McLain, and ‘Privacy and Control’ by Scott Davison. I discuss key elements in both sides of this debate. Even though I will register my sympathy with both (...) sides, I claim that both fail to grasp what I call the existential depth of the God-person relationship. (shrink)
- Poteat’s Voice.Ronald L. Hall -2008 -Tradition and Discovery 35 (2):19-22.The focus of these remarks is on the impact that Personal Knowledge and Philosophical Investigations had in shaping Bill Poteat’s philosophical voice. Of the two works, I claim that, for good or ill, it was Personal Knowledge that had the more profound influence on Poteat. Of course, both sources had profound influence. What makes Personal Knowledge more profound is that his use of it, at least in those early years, was more indirect than his direct and explicit use of Wittgenstein’s (...) ideas. Following Bill’s lead, there is much thatPolanyians can learn from Wittgenstein and vice versa. (shrink)
- Poteat’s Voice.Ronald L. Hall -2011 -Tradition and Discovery 38 (2):19-22.The focus of these remarks is on the impact that Personal Knowledge and Philosophical Investigations had in shaping Bill Poteat’s philosophical voice. Of the two works, I claim that, for good or ill, it was Personal Knowledge that had the more profound influence on Poteat. Of course, both sources had profound influence. What makes Personal Knowledge more profound is that his use of it, at least in those early years, was more indirect than his direct and explicit use of Wittgenstein’s (...) ideas. Following Bill’s lead, there is much that Polanyians can learn from Wittgenstein and vice versa. (shrink)
- Poteat’s Voice.Ronald L. Hall -2008 -Tradition and Discovery 38 (2):19-22.The focus of these remarks is on the impact that Personal Knowledge and Philosophical Investigations had in shaping Bill Poteat’s philosophical voice. Of the two works, I claim that, for good or ill, it was Personal Knowledge that had the more profound influence on Poteat. Of course, both sources had profound influence. What makes Personal Knowledge more profound is that his use of it, at least in those early years, was more indirect than his direct and explicit use of Wittgenstein’s (...) ideas. Following Bill’s lead, there is much that Polanyians can learn from Wittgenstein and vice versa. (shrink)
- Remembering Bill Poteat.Ronald L. Hall -2000 -Tradition and Discovery 27 (3):11-15.This brief essay remembers the late William H. Poteat and outlines his intellectual perspective and its its roots.
- Rob R. Brady, 1941-2004.Ronald L. Hall -2004 -Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78 (2):137 - 138.No categories
- Recovering the Personal: The Philosophical Anthropology of William H. Poteat.Ronald L. Hall &Dale W. Cannon (eds.) -2016 - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.This book explores aspects of William H. Poteat’s philosophical anthropology, which proposes a post-critical alternative to the prevailing dualistic conception of the person and opens a path to recovery of the pre-reflective ontological ground of the person where our personhood can be recovered and re-appropriated.No categories
- The role of commitment in scientific inquiry: Polanyi or popper?Ronald L. Hall -1982 -Human Studies 5 (1):45-60.
- Transcending the Human.Ronald L. Hall -1994 -International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (3):361-373.No categories
- Wittgenstein and Polanyi: the Problem of Privileged Self-Knowledge.Ronald L. Hall -1979 -Philosophy Today 23 (3):267-278.
- Word and Spirit: A Kierkegaardian Critique of the Modern Age.Ronald L. Hall -1993 - Indiana University Press.By means of a Kierkegaardian critique of postmodernism, Ronald L. Hall argues that the postmodernist flirtation with Kierkegaard ignores the existential import of his thought. Word and Spirit offers a novel interpretation of Kierkegaard's conception of the self, according to which spirit is essentially linked to the speech act. In an extended interpretation of Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Hall uses insights from Austin, Wittgenstein, Polanyi, and Poteat to fill out and explicate Kierkegaard's views in the context of modern language philosophy. The enriched (...) concept of the speech act represented by the Hebrew idea of dabhar frames Hall's critique of irony, romanticism, Don Giovanni, Faust, the demonic, music, and ultimately, postmodernisim in a Kierkegaardian mode. The result of the modern suspicion of speech, Hall concludes, is a demonic, musical spiritlessness. (shrink)
- Word and Spirit.Ronald L. Hall -1994 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 36 (2):125-126.Export citation
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- Jerry Gill on Polanyi, Modern and Postmodern Thought: A Review Essay. [REVIEW]Ronald L. Hall -2000 -Tradition and Discovery 27 (3):30-34.
- The origin of alienation: Some Kierkegaardian reflections on Merleau-ponty's phenomenology of the body. [REVIEW]Ronald L. Hall -1981 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12 (2):111 - 122.
- Book reviews. [REVIEW]William L. Allen,Henry L. Ruf,Chernor M. Jalloh,John Donnelly,Jerry H. Gill,Lee Barrett,Ronald L. Hall &William Kluback -1987 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 21 (1):185-189.
- Recovering the personal: the philosophical anthropology of William H. Poteat / edited by Dale W. Cannon and Ronald L. Hall.Dale W. Cannon &Ronald L. Hall (eds.) -2016 - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.This book explores aspects of William H. Poteat's philosophical anthropology, which proposes a post-critical alternative to the prevailing dualistic conception of the person and opens a path to recovery of the pre-reflective ontological ground of the person where our personhood can be recovered and re-appropriated.No categories
- Recovering the personal: the philosophical anthropology of William H. Poteat / edited by Dale W. Cannon and Ronald L. Hall.Dale W. Cannon &Ronald L. Hall (eds.) -2016 - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.This book explores aspects of William H. Poteat's philosophical anthropology, which proposes a post-critical alternative to the prevailing dualistic conception of the person and opens a path to recovery of the pre-reflective ontological ground of the person where our personhood can be recovered and re-appropriated.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Anthony C. Thiselton, interpreting God and the postmodern self: On meaning, manipulation and promise. [REVIEW]Ronald L. Hall -1997 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 42 (2):121-123.
- Book review: Jamie lorentzen, Kierkegaard's metaphors. [REVIEW]Ronald L. Hall -2003 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 53 (2):119-122.
- Book review; Wendy Farley, Eros for the other: Retaining truth in a pluralistic world. [REVIEW]Ronald L. Hall -1998 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 43 (1):65-68.
- C. Stevens Evans, Kierkegaard: On faith and the self. [REVIEW]Ronald L. Hall -2008 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 64 (1):51-53.
- James C. Edwards, the plain sense of things: The fate of religion in an age of normal nihilism. [REVIEW]Ronald L. Hall -2002 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 51 (3):219-221.
- Peter Van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (eds), persons: Human and divine. [REVIEW]Ronald L. Hall -2009 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 65 (1):59-64.
- Sharon Krishek: Kierkegaard on faith and love: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009, 201 pages, $90.00. [REVIEW]Ronald L. Hall -2010 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 67 (2):113-116.
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