Background
Belliotti, Raymond Angelo was born on June 17, 1948 in Dansville, New York, United States. Son of Angelo Richard and Louise Mary (Leonardo) Belliotti.
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When Raymond Belliotti was twelve, he stole from a local merchant. After making restitution and apologies, he was faced with his mother's Italian-American pride and wrath he had besmirched the family name, reinforced stereotypical criminal images of Italian-Americans, and repaid the sacrifices of his parents and grandparents with disgrace. The message was clear his self-indulgent greed had taken down an entire family network. But later that night his mother symbolically welcomed him back into the fold by baking his favorite cookies. The family survived and he never stole again. In Seeking Identity, Belliotti combines ethical theory and personal experience as he explores family and community influences on individual behavior within an ethnic setting. He scrutinizes the fine line Italian-Americans and others with ethnic ties must continually tread between personal freedom and community bonds. Individuals, he shows, are linked to a variety of often conflicting groups-family, friends, neighborhood, country, international alliances, and ethnic, gender, and racial unions. Constantly influenced by ancestry and affiliation, Belliotti argues, they simultaneously long for emotional attachment yet are horrified that their individuality may evaporate once they achieve it. Outlining the unwritten but deeply ingrained system of moral rules that Italian immigrants brought to America, Belliotti examines that system in relation to the current debates on moral theory between those who argue we owe the most to people close to us and those who contend we must attach no special weight to our own interests when determining proper moral action. He also investigates philosophical, historical, sociological, and political aspects of government authority, examines conflicting images of Italian immigrant women, and analyzes war and pacifism. In some respects, Belliotti contends, the self is deeply situated, socially embedded in contingent family, ethnic, and national understandings. But in other respects, it is adrift and never fully resolved as it struggles to define and redefine itself during its unremitting journey along multiple dimensions of the individualism-community continuum.
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Entering the perennial debate about the role and definition of law, Raymond Belliotti presents a critical survey of a number of philosophical approaches to law and judicial decision-making. Confronting the conflicting orientations represented by legal formalism and legal realism, he discusses the relationship between law and society. For a decision such as Roe v. Wade, the differing justifications by formalists and realists can affect policy interpretations as well as legal challenges. The application of an implicit right to privacy versus the attempt to enact policy that deals with a social problem and the acceptance of judicial innovation demonstrates how sometimes opposing arguments can reach the same legal decision. While providing his own account of law, Belliotti takes seriously the legal critiques inspired by Marxism and feminism and illustrates how traditional philosophical problems and methods plague legal theory. He also shows the impasses to which our argumentation strategies lead and suggests ways we might transcend those dead ends. Raymond A. Belliotti is Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Fredonia.
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This introduction to Nietzsche's thought is geared to those who approach his work with grave skepticism. Belliotti begins each chapter with a brief exposition of a broad theme in Nietzsche's work, raising important questions of interpretation. He then turns the discussion into a dialogue between two characters who, in the topics they address, exemplify rather than merely explain Nietzsche's broad themes. In this manner, Stalking Nietzsche focuses on the connection between philosophy and living: How can reading Nietzsche change one's life? What links are there between accepting Nietzsche's broad philosophical themes and practical conduct? And what lessons, if any, can reading Nietzsche teach us about the human condition?
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Belliotti, Raymond Angelo was born on June 17, 1948 in Dansville, New York, United States. Son of Angelo Richard and Louise Mary (Leonardo) Belliotti.
Bachelor, Union College, 1970. Master of Arts, University Miami, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, University Miami, 1977.
Juris Doctor, Harvard University, 1982.
Assistant professor Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 1978-1979. Lawyer Barrett Smith Schapiro Simon & Armstrong, New York City, 1982-1984. Professor State University of New York, Fredonia, since 1984.
(Entering the perennial debate about the role and definiti...)
(Entering the perennial debate about the role and definiti...)
( This introduction to Nietzsche's thought is geared to t...)
(When Raymond Belliotti was twelve, he stole from a local ...)
Chairman Chautauqua Italian American Organization, Fredonia, since 1986. Member National Italian American Foundation, National Italian American History Society, American Society Legal Philosophers, American Philosophical Association, Chautauqua Italian American Society (cultural chair 1986).
Married Marcia Helen Dalby, May 31, 1986. Children: Angelo, Vittoria.