Recovering Reason

Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle
Herausgeber: Burns, Timothy

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Produktbeschreibung

Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle is a collection of essays composed by students and friends of Thomas L. Pangle to honor his seminal work and outstanding guidance in the study of political philosophy. These essays examine both Socrates' and modern political philosophers' attempts to answer the question of the right life for human beings, as those attempts are introduced and elaborated in the work of thinkers from Homer and Thucydides to Nietzsche and Charles Taylor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 913g
• ISBN-13: 9780739146316
• ISBN-10: 0739146319
• Artikelnr.: 30881621

Autorenporträt

Timothy Burns is an associate professor of government at Skidmore College.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Acknowledgements
2 Introduction
Part 3 I: Pre-Socratic Thought
Chapter 4 1. Homer and the Foundation of Classical Civilization
Chapter 5 2. Prometheus and Oedipus: The Arrogance and Limits of Art and
Reason
Chapter 6 3. What War Discloses
Chapter 7 4. The Classical Rationalism of Thucydides
Chapter 8 5. The Aristophanic Question
Chapter 9 6. On the Power of Rhetoric: Gorgias and the Philosophic
Foundation of Sophistry
Part 10 Part II: Socratic Rationalism
Chapter 11 7. Socrates and the Sophists
Chapter 12 8. Thrasymachus' Blush
Chapter 13 9. Civic or Human Virtue in Aristotle's Politics
Chapter 14 10. Happiness in the Perspective of Philosophy
Chapter 15 11. The Problem of Providence in Maimonides' Guide of the
Perplexed
Chapter 16 12. A Slingshot Recoils: The Critique of Philosophy in Halevi's
Kuzari
Part 17 III: On Leo Strauss
Chapter 18 13. Thinking Nietzsche Through and Strauss's Recovery of
Classical Political Philosophy
Chapter 19 14. John Toland and Leo Strauss on Esoteric Writing
Chapter 20 15. Did Plato Believe in his own Metaphysics? And Did Strauss?
Chapter 21 16. Leo Strauss on Machiavelli and the Origins of Modernity
Part 22 IV: Modern Political Philosophy
Chapter 23 17. Aristotelian Kingship and Lockean Prerogative
Chapter 24 18. "For Which Human Nature Can Never Be Too Grateful":
Montesquieu as the Heir of Christianity
Chapter 25 19. "They Flock Into Cities; Their Situation is Less
Precarious": David Hume and the Intellectual Origins of the American
Founding
Chapter 26 20. Rousseau on the Philosophic Life Les rêveries du Promeneur
Solitaire
Chapter 27 21. Schiller on Aesthetic Education: Radicalization by Return
Chapter 28 22. Stendhal and the Promise of Happiness: An Introduction to
the Charterhouse of Parma
Chapter 29 23. Tocqueville's Burke, or Story as History
Part 30 V: Contemporary Issues and political philosophy
Chapter 31 24. Corrupting or Edifying? Cato the Elder and Cicero on the
Role of Philosophy in Roman Civic Education
Chapter 32 25. Abstract Painting and the Rule of Doubt
Chapter 33 26. Kissinger and Thucydides
Chapter 34 27. Charles Taylor as a Theorist of
MulticulturalismRecognition/Authenticity
Chapter 35 28. Neuroplasticity, Perfectibility, and Three Ideas of Nature
36 Bibliography of the Published Work of Thomas L. Pangle
37 Index
38 About the Contributors