Kirk Fitzpatrick, Author at VoegelinView

Kirk Fitzpatrick

Kirk Fitzpatrick is an Associate Editor of VoegelinView, Associate Professor of Philosophy, and former Director of the Grace A. Tanner Center at Southern Utah University (2012-16). He is author of A Philosophical Reader on Moral Weakness: Akrasia, Weakness of Will, and Practical Irrationality (Linus, 2009).

The Third Era of Education

August 14, 2019
Kirk Fitzpatrick

This chapter proposes an alternative to contemporary liberal education, by specifying a form of liberal arts education that is fit for the 21st century. We begin with…

Review of Plato’s Mythoi: The Political Soul’s Drama Beyond

April 29, 2019
Kirk Fitzpatrick

Plato’s Mythoi: The Political Soul’s Drama Beyond. Donald H. Roy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. In Plato’s Mythoi, the Political Soul’s Drama Beyond, Donald H. Roy…

Forbidden Delicacies: The Ideal City, the Luxurious City, and the Marketplace in Plato’s Republic

January 28, 2019
Kirk Fitzpatrick

Socrates describes the “Ideal City” early in Bk. II of the Republic. Glaucon is not satisfied with the constitution. He says that “you make the people feast…

The Poetic Rhythms Correlated with the Five Constitutions in Plato’s Republic

January 22, 2018
Kirk Fitzpatrick

I In the Republic, Socrates holds that there are correlations among the poetic rhythms and the constitutions of state and soul. He does not explicitly tell us…

Soul Music in Plato’s Republic

January 15, 2018
Kirk Fitzpatrick

I In the Republic, Socrates names the musical modes and he correlates them with the different constitutions of state and soul (399a–c).[1] Since Socrates ranks the different…

Democracy is Anarchy in The Republic

January 8, 2018
Kirk Fitzpatrick

Our systems are at the breaking point now. We need more roads, more hospitals, more schools, more nurses, more teachers, more police, more fire, more water, more…

Kirk Fitzpatrick