Joseph Dattilo

PhD Candidate
joseph.dattilo@mail.utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Political Theory

Areas of Interest

  • Moral Psychology
  • Classical Political Thought
  • Liberalism; Normative Theory
  • St. Augustine
  • Enlightenment Thought
  • Analytic Philosophy
  • Religion in Political Thought
  • Ethical Individualism
  • Philosophical Pessimism
  • Catholicism
  • Zoroastrianism
  • Utilitarianism
  • Axiology (Value theory)
  • Jeremy Bentham
  • Max Weber

Major and Minor Fields

Major

  • Political Theory

Working Dissertation

Title

On The Moral Psychology of Self Loathing: St. Augustine and the Political Virtue of Self-Reproach

Supervisors

Rebecca E. Kingston

Biography

Joseph Dattilo has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in political science, classics, and Latin language. He has a Master of Arts in political science specializing in political theory and minoring in Canadian government from York University. His MA research focused on liberal value theory under conditions of Weberian disenchantment. His PhD research focuses on the moral psychology of self-abnegation in liberal thought and its origins in the work of St. Augustine and the tradition of philosophical pessimism.

Education

BA (Hons), University of Toronto
MA, York University

Cohort

  • 2018-2019