Enlightening Revolutions

Essays in Honor of Ralph Lerner
Herausgeber: Minkov, Svetozar; Douard, Stéphane

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays collected in this volume make a serious, enlightened contribution to the history of political philosophy. While offering striking new interpretations of crucial texts and events in the history of the West, they illuminate fundamental questions of politics, religion, and philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780739122556
• ISBN-10: 073912255X
• Artikelnr.: 22886944

Autorenporträt

Svetozar Minkov is assistant professor of philosophy at Roosevelt University.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Part I: The Medieval Renaissance
Chapter 2 The Moral Status of Teaching and Writing
Chapter 3 Averroes on Law and Political Well-Being
Chapter 4 Prudence, Imagination, and Determination of Law in Alfarabi and
Maimonides
Chapter 5 Averroes, Dante and the Dawn of European Enlightenment
6 Part II: The Modern Revolution
Chapter 7 Law and Innovation in Machiavelli's Prince
Chapter 8 Resistance to Punishment: Controversies Old and New
Chapter 9 The Right to Life and Human Dignity
10 Part III: The Place of Philosophy in Modernity
Chapter 10 Adam Smith on Natural Liberty and Moral Corruption: The Wisdom
of Nature and Folly of Legislators?
Chapter 11 Swift Sailing
Chapter 12 Montesquieu's Prelude: An Interpretation of Book I of The Spirit
of Laws
Chapter 14 Tocqueville's Understanding of "Conditions of Equality" and
"Conditions of Inequality"
14 Part IV: Equality and Greatness in Tocqueville and America
Chapter 15 Who is Publius? The Debate Over the Constitution and the
American Revolution
Chapter 16 Benjamin Franklin's Biblical Parable on Toleration
Chapter 17 Tocqueville as Politician: Revisiting the Revolution of 1789
Chapter 18 Is There a Right to Live as We Please? (So Long as We Respect
the Right of Others to Do the Same)
Chapter 19 Two Nations Were in Her Womb: Contemporary Liberal Democracy and
the Political Teaching of the Bible
Chapter 19 Democratic Greatness in the Founding
20 Part V. Learning from Antiquity and the Thought of Leo Strauss
Chapter 21 Justice Overruled: The Ambition of Xenophon's Cyrus the Great
Chapter 22 Plato and Relativism
Chapter 25 Leo Strauss in His Letters
Chapter 26 How Strauss Became Strauss
Chapter 27 The Writings of Ralph Lerner