Projects
The idea of distributive justice in seventeenth-century moral and political philosophy. KU Leuven
How to divide things fairly? Philosophers have been pondering this question under the heading of ‘distributive justice’ at least since Aristotle. It has recently been argued that the meaning of this term changed dramatically in the last 200 years.Today, distributive justice deals primarily with the fair division of benefits and burdens arising from social cooperation. It gives citizens a right to material goods based on need or effort. Yet ...
The modern subject in contemporary political philosophy. An epistemological and metaphysical analysis of the postfoundational perspective on subjectivity. Ghent University
Philosophical investigation of political ontology; mainly by comparing the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions concerning the subject in early political philosophy and postfoundational perspective in contemporary political philosophy.
Jewish Nation - Zionist State – Divine Law: The Critical Political Theology of Jewish Dialogical Philosophy. University of Antwerp
BOF-ZAP professorship in political philosophy and ethics Ghent University
A BOF-ZAP professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
Gerechtigheid en Philia: Politiek en Filosofie in het Griekse Epicurisme. Justice and Philia. Politics and Philosophy in Greek Epicureanism. KU Leuven
The main object of the research is the analysis of the Epicurean position towards politics, as a doctrine, and towards effective political action. Because of the inadequate reception of statements as λάθε βιώσας or μὴ πολιτεύεσθαι, Epicureans have been considered cut off from politics and as society's parasites, interested only in satisfying their «belly's pleasure», without contributing to society's life. Indeed, Epicurus used a double ...
A Philosophy of Radical Politics: Revolutionary Gnosticism and the Case of Salafi-Jihadism KU Leuven
Many philosophers and sociologists have used the category of revolutionary Gnosticism to frame different modern and contemporary ideologies and social movements. Revolutionary, or political, Gnosticism is a category introduced in the academic debate by the political philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) in order to investigate the two main ideologies of the 20th-century, Nazism and Communism. After Voegelin, many other scholars started to use ...
Modern time-consciousness: philosophy and politics of history - Leo Strauss on history and truth in the relation of theory and praxis. KU Leuven
The first part of the project will clarify a set of problems centering on the ...
Themistius’ Self-Fashioning as a Philosopher in its Contexts. Philosophy, Rhetoric and Public Action KU Leuven
At the imperial court in Constantinople, Themistius reaped success with encomia in which he played the role of a truth-loving philosopher. In other, 'private', orations, he reflected upon this strategy and on whether the many roles he played (philosopher, orator, politician) could be reconciled. How Themistius sees himself, what image of himself he presents and in particular how he justifies this persona with arguments from the philosophical ...