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Background: As an undergraduate I majored in meteorology at the State University of New York's Maritime College and was awarded a Batchelor of Science degree in 1964. I also obtained a professional license as third mate in the United States Merchant Marine, and for the next two years served as Junior Deck Officer, Fourth Officer, in the United States Military Sea Transportation Service. I went to graduate school at State University of New York, Albany, where I received an M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1973) in Political Science.
After brief periods teaching at Union College and the State University of New York at Albany, I joined the faculty of the Political Science Department at the University of Hawai'i in 1969 as an acting assistant professor, and as a regular faculty member in 1973. I have also taught at Queens College, CUNY (Department of Philosophy, 1977, 1983) and at St. John's College, Annapolis (1984-1985).
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Research interests: My research interests are in classical political philosophy, the history/tradition of political philosophy, the American Foundation, non-Western political philosophy, the political science/philosophy of non-modernity, and the theory of the state. At present, I have three major research writing projects in progress. The first is Western Political Philosophy: Principles, Texts, and Essays. This is a work in introductory political philosophy intended for undergraduate students, especially political science majors. The second is a study of Plato's political philosophy, tentatively entitled Returning to Earth: An Interpretation of Plato's Political Philosophy from the Republic to the Statesman. This work highlights especially feminist elements in Plato's thought. It is to be followed by a third volume in my Plato sequence, The City in the Earth: A Study of Plato’s Laws. The third--and currently most active--project is State-System-Association: Thinking Through Political Science. This is a comparative study critically probing the conceptual foundations of the principal autonomous associational formations; and correlating these formations with their representative political sciences. The first portion of this project, “State,” is substantially completed. It places the conceptual foundations of the (modern) state within broader epistemic epochs of divine and natural philosophy.
Selected publications:
“Paulin J. Hountondji” in John K. Roth (ed.), World Philosphers and Their Works (Salem Press, 2000), pp. 865-872
“John S. Mbiti” in John K. Roth (ed.), World Philosphers and Their Works (Salem Press, 2000), pp. 1227-1234
“Tsenay Serequeberhan” in John K. Roth (ed.), World Philosphers and Their Works (Salem Press, 2000), pp. 1770-1777
“William Bligh” in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Dictionary of Biography: 17th - 18th Centuries (Salem Press, 1999), pp. 143-146
“Xanthippe” in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World (Salem Press, 1998), pp. 952-954
“Aristotle”; “Thomas Hobbes”; and “Socrates,” in R. Kent Rasmussen (ed.), Ready Reference: Censorship (Salem Press, 1997), pp. 37-39, etc.
“Flowering of Minoan Civilization”; “Oracle at Delphi”; an “Athenian Empire is Created” in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Chronology of European History, vol. I, (Salem Press, 1997), pp. 8-10, 22-24, and 56-58
"Polity," in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Survey of Social Science: Government and Politics (Salem Press, 1995), pp. 1545-1550
"Privatizating Aristotle," Polis, vol. 13, no. 1&2, 1994, pp. 133-146
"The Faith of Republics: Perspectives on Religion and the Regime," Polity, vol. 19, no. 1, Fall, 1986, pp.148-163
Courses taught:
Introduction of Political Science
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Introduction to Ethics
Classical Political Philosophy
History of Political Philosophy
Non-Western Political Philosophy
American Political Thought/Foundation/Constitutional Law/Politics
American Presidency
State Theory
Democratic Theory
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