Lorraine Smith Pangle (born April 26, 1958) is a professor of
political philosophy
Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, ...
in the Department of Government and co-director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the
University of Texas at Austin
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. Her interests are ancient, early modern, and
American political philosophy,
ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concer ...
, the
philosophy of education, and problems of
justice
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and
moral responsibility
In philosophy, moral responsibility is the status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or omission in accordance with one's moral obligations.
Deciding what (if anything) counts as "morally obligatory" is a ...
.
She has won fellowships from the Searle, Olin, and Earhart Foundations, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Pangle received her B.A. in history from Yale, a B.Ed. from the University of Toronto, and her PhD from
University of Chicago
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in 1999.
She is married to
Thomas Pangle
Thomas Lee Pangle, (born 1944) is an American political scientist. He holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government and is Co-Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas at the University ...
.
Books
* ''Virtue Is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy'', University of Chicago Press, 2014
* ''The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin'' (The Political Philosophy of the American Founders), Johns Hopkins, 2007
* ''Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship'', Cambridge, 2003
* ''The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders'' (with Thomas Pangle). University Press of Kansas, 1993
See also
*
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Encyclopædia Britannica, Wood, 2021 Among the leading inte ...
*
Aristotelian ethics
*
Moral intellectualism
Moral intellectualism or ethical intellectualism is a view in meta-ethics according to which genuine moral knowledge must take the form of arriving at discursive moral judgements about what one should do.
One way of understanding this is that doi ...
References
External links
Pangle at University of Texas
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21st-century American philosophers
Political philosophers
Philosophy academics
Philosophers of love
Living people
University of Toronto faculty
University of Texas at Austin faculty
University of Chicago alumni
Commentators on Aristotle
Commentators on Plato
Yale University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
1958 births