Analytic teaching and Philosophical praxis


ANALYTIC TEACHING AND PHILOSOPHICAL PRAXIS Volume 34, Issue 2 (2014) 
 

Editor’s Notes 
 

The original inspiration for the papers collected here was in 
response to a conference on the virtue of love held at Viterbo 
University in spring of 2013. I also put out a call for papers on 
the topic “Understanding the Virtue of Love” shortly after the 
conference and I am pleased to say, between the conference 
and the CFP, the journal had one of its largest submission 
pools.    
 
We managed to narrow down the submissions to seven papers, 
all of which dealt with overlapping but distinct concerns 
related to the virtue of love and, most importantly from the 
standpoint of the journal’s mission, how the virtue of love 
relates to pedagogy.     
 
The seven essays assembled here provide an eclectic approach 
to understanding the virtue of love. Two papers, Schulzke’s on 
Erich Fromm and D’Ambrosio and Faul’s on Pitirim Sorokin, 
introduce readers to two comprehensive accounts of love by 
two important 20th century theorists whose work on love 
continues to garner little detailed attention.  
 
Johnson’s paper on “The Significance of Alcibiades’ Speech in 
Plato’s Symposium” and Ware’s on “What Good is Love?” 
nicely complement each other, with each exploring the rich 
interrelationship between beauty, eros, and virtue in Plato, and 
each attempting to defend, albeit in different ways, the 
resources of Plato’s thought for showing us how to think about 
the virtue of love.  
 
William R. Jarrett’s “Love or Tolerance? A Virtue Response to 
Religious Violence and Plurality” does a commendable job 
showing the limitations with notions of tolerance, using this 
point to argue for the supremacy of caritas as a concept that 
can better accommodate the complexity of religious, and even 
secular, diversity.  Bernardo Caslib, Jr.’s paper also takes up 
the concept of caritas and uses it as the educational fulcrum for 
an innovative project in experiential learning that brings 
together Filipino college students with elderly and 
marginalized populations. 
 
Finally, Kathryn A. McFadden’s “Agape: Love and Art in 
Community” explores the many ways that contemporary works 
of art have been used to reinvigorate community and disclose a 
sense of love, seeing art as a means of bearing witness to the 
love of life even in the midst of tragedy and loss.    
I hope you enjoy the issue. 
- Pax et Bonum 
Jason J. Howard, Chief Editor 

CHIEF EDITOR 
Jason J. Howard 
Viterbo University 
 
COPY EDITOR 
Jacqueline Herbers 
Viterbo University 
 
LAYOUT ASSISTANT 
Tyler R. Mancl 
Viterbo University 
 
WEB DESIGN MASTER 
Debra A. Kappmeyer 
Viterbo University 
 
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 
Patrick Costello 
Glyndŵr University 
 
Susan Gardner 
Capilano University 
 
David Kennedy 
Montclair State University 
 
Nadia S. Kennedy 
Stony Brook University, SUNY 
 
Richard Morehouse, Emeritus 
Viterbo University 
 
Joe Oyler 
Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children 
Montclair State University 
 
Michel Sasseville 
Laval University 
 
John Simpson 
University of Alberta 
 
Barbara Weber 
University of British Columbia 
 
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Established in 1981 as Analytic Teaching at Texas Wesleyan 
College and transferred to Viterbo in 1993. 
Online Copyright 2005. 
Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis is a peer-reviewed, 
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