Enlightening Revolutions

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

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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.

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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