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    The Canadian political crisis
    (Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, 2008-12) von Heyking, John
    Canada faces a political crisis, and potentially a crisis of national unity, that it has never seen before. Harper’s Conservatives won a minority government in October. Yet, in just six short weeks, his government is facing defeat in Parliament, and the country is faced with the prospect of government being taken over by a coalition of Liberals, New Democrats, and Bloc Quebecois who currently form the Opposition.
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    The charter and civil religion
    (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009) von Heyking, John
    "Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, along with the Supreme Court, is the focal point for an evocation of civil religion ... The manner in which important constitencies speak of the Charter ... reveals an attempt ... to create a civil religion based upon the language of rights found in the Charter that postulates Canada participates in the unfolding of a progressive history toward a more democratic and egalitarian future in which individuals are thought to be unencumberedby history, nature, religion, tradition, or community."
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    Churchill's Marlborough as the "Sum of things"
    (International Churchill Society, 2017) von Heyking, John
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    Civil religion and human rights in Canada
    (Conference on ”Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Conscience, Right for Unification: International and Russian Experience of Application: The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights., 2008-04) von Heyking, John
    One of the reasons why religious pluralism flourishes to the degree it does in Canada and the United States is because, as immigrants, we have inherited a cultural attitude of healthy skepticism toward what politics can achieve. We have a cultural inheritance of recognizing that religious persecution is frequently the result of attempts by political rulers to establish political uniformity with dubious and overreaching civic ideals. Wehave a cultural inheritance of recognizing that human happiness is better achieved within religious communities, through education, than in larger political communities where those ideals are enforced with the sword. In short, we have a cultural inheritance of recognizing the limits of state power and laws to promote public morality, which sustains a public understanding of the limits of what politics can achieve in promoting human happiness and virtue.
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    David Walsh's anamnesis of modernity: a preface to a preface
    (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2010-04) von Heyking, John
    Walsh’s anamnesis moves among modernity’s three pillars: rights, science, and the turn to existence (MPR xii). All three volumes consider these three pillars with varying degrees of intensity. Additionally, his reflections within these volumes are of necessity circumscribed by these pillars because they are not to be understood as concepts, but rather as the core of a practice whose nature is intimated only in its unfolding; or, as Kant explains, our consciousness of the dispositions to virtue can only be known in the effect they have on the mind ...
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    Disarming, simple, and sweet: Augustine's republican rhetoric
    (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005) von Heyking, John
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    Establishing true community in philia among students: teaching the Eric Voegelin Reader
    (The Eric Vogeline Society, 2018) von Heyking, John
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    The figure of Socrates and its significance for liberal education in Asia
    (Association of Cambridge Studies, 2018) von Heyking, John
    This essay contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the value of liberal education in East Asia, and how well Western models of liberal education fit with East Asian cultures. It addresses the inadequacy of the two main arguments presented in these debates: 1) utility, whether liberal education provides critical thinking skills to help East Asian countries “catch up” to the West and 2) whether Western liberal education carries with it individualism that is incompatible with East Asian culture. In response to these arguments, this essay considers the figure of Socrates as a transpolitical figure, and a way of considering the place of liberal education in East Asia. Socratic freedom as the ideal of liberal education presents intractable challenges to all political regimes and cultures because it aims higher than their goals and aims. Therefore those interested in liberal education and those responsible for administering institutions where liberal education gets taught need to be attentive to the difference between Socratic freedom and the varying degrees of freedom their respective political societies permit.
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    Friendship and language
    (Valparaiso University, 2007) von Heyking, John
    Americans, even when not stranded on their rooftops, seem to have lost the art of friendship. They seem to be unsure just what to do with a friend. They know how to unite their bodies, but not their souls. They seem to have forgotten a rich heritage in Western thinking on the meaning of friendship. The ancient Greeks thought that friendship at its best involved conversing about the noble and the good.
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    Friendship in light of the modern philosophical revolution
    (Redeemer Pacific College, 2009) von Heyking, John
    "Modernity constitutes a completion over antiquity in the sense that it establishes the incompleteness of philosophy in a way antiquity failed to see. If Socrates represents the greatestinsights of antiquity, Kierkegaard represents the modern thinker who saw this advance the most clearly. I wish to assess Walsh’s claim with reference to friendship, the culmination of the ethical life – or existence – for the ancients. The modern philosophical revolution, with its turn toward existence, deepens our awareness of the unconditioned, personal love at the heart of existence."
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    Friendship: the form of politics
    (2016) von Heyking, John
    Lecture presented at the Liberal Studies Spring Conference, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, B.C.
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    Friendship: the horizon of our common life
    (The Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life, 2017) von Heyking, John
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    From a wooded summit : learning to love through augustinian meditation in Ascona
    (Konigshausen & Neumann, 2004) von Heyking, John
    This paper focuses on the way ... Eranos scholars used Augustinian symbols to explicate the tensional relationship between time and eternity, finitude and infinity, creation and God, and human being and God that Eranos scholars have theorized about, and that thinkers have been grappling with since Plato characterized human existence as a cave and wondered how to convince philosophers to reenter it.
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    God's co-workers: Remi Brague's treatment of the divine law of Christianity
    (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2009-04) von Heyking, John
    Our imprudence is related to our confusion about the nature of law, which, as Rémi Brague demonstrates in his The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea, derives from the modern rejection of certain presuppositions of divine law found among the three Abrahamic traditions, especially in the understandings expressed during the Middle Ages.
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    History brought into a form: political storytelling
    (De Gruyter, 2020) von Heyking, John
    Storytelling is the form of the collective life we call politics. Politics is about performing actions and subsequently sharing stories about those actions. To answer the question posed as the title of this volume, history emerges when human beings perform actions together, and then reflect together upon those actions, frequently as Homer says they feast “at rows of tables throughout the banquet hall.” History emerges from the “eranos” or “love feast” people share. This essay examines the experiential core of this transition from action to thought, and back to action again, by considering Homer’s presentation of Odysseus’ visit to the land of the Phaeacians and his conversation with King Alcinous. The essay then considers a 20th-century instantiation of storytelling as history in the form of the statesman, Winston Churchill.
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    Holy moly under the terebinth tree: a response to my friends
    (Ficino Publications, 2017) von Heyking, John
    The author responds to the five insightful reviews of his book, The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato. He focuses upon their questions regarding the degree to which the daimonic form of political friendship he expounds can operate under conditions of modernity, and on the symbol of this daimonism in Hermes.
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    Iran's President and the politics of the Twelfth Imam
    (Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, 2005-11) von Heyking, John
    Western observers need to be able to understand the ideological and religious overtones of the current situation in Iran. Ahmadinejad’s peculiar references to the Twelfth Imam are no mere eccentricity to be taken lightly. Nor do they seem to be the rhetorical ploy of a politician manipulating the excitable masses
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    Is political friendship possible in the modern age?
    (2007) von Heyking, John
    Lectures presented for the Chester Ronning Centre for Pluralism at Augustana University College (Camrose, AB) and The Kings University College (Edmonton, AB),
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    Law and religious pluralism in Canada : review
    (University of British Columbia Press, 2008) von Heyking, John; Moon, Richard
    Book review of Law and religious pluralism in Canada edited by Richard Moon. The essays in this volume ponder the nature of religious freedom and pluralism in Canada. In addition to considering recent case law, the authors inevitably reflect upon the nature of religion, freedom (and the nature of the individual endowed with freedom), equality, autonomy, and the meaning of “secular” and “secularism.” In terms of these deeper political questions, this collection of essays by mostly legal scholars is a mixed bag because they raise important questions without moving beyond the horizon of liberal (and, as I shall argue, religious) assumptions concerning the good society.
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    Multiculturalism and problems of Canadian unity
    (Universitatsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, 2010) von Heyking, John; Ray, Elise
    Examines the confusion that multiculturalism has wrought in Canadian political life by considering 1) multiculturalism as a national symbol within the context of the postmaterialist shift from the politics of interests to the politics of identity; 2) multiculturalism as a symbol of the cosmopolitan ideal to redeem historic injustices toward the marginalized; 3) multicultural diversity as cosmopolitan monism; and 4) a concluding consideration to think more constructively about multicultural society.