In Search of Humanity

Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
Herausgeber: Radasanu, Andrea

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of "humanity" through the history of political philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 562
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 901g
• ISBN-13: 9781498513241
• ISBN-10: 1498513247
• Artikelnr.: 56153329

Autorenporträt

Edited by Andrea Radasanu - Contributions by Ryan K. Balot; Timothy W. Burns; Paul A. Cantor; Brent Edwin Cusher; Donald Forbes; Steven Forde; Bryan-Paul Frost; Kenneth Hart Green; Ran Halévi; L. Joseph Hebert Jr.; Henry Higuera; Robert Howse; S. N. Jaffe

Inhaltsangabe

I. Ancient Inquiries into Humanity 1. Civilization and the Gods in the
Eumenides By Mark J. Lutz 2. Philosophy and "Humanity": Reflections on
Thucydidean Piety, Justice, and Necessity By Ryan Balot 3. Preliminary
Observations on the Treaties in Thucydides' Work By Robert Howse and Noah
Laurence 4. Reflections on the Humanity (and Inhumanity) of Thucydides By
S. N. Jaffe 5. The Spartan Alcibiades: Brasidas and the Prospect of Regime
Change in Sparta in Thucydides' War By Michael Palmer 6. The Tragedy of
Demosthenes in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War By Andrea Radasanu 7. Moral
Indignation, Magnanimity, and Philosophy in the Trial of the Armenian King 
By Lorraine Smith Pangle 8. Humanity and Divinity in Xenophon's Defense of
Socrates By Thomas L. Pangle 9. Education after Freedom By Michael S.
Kochin II. The Taming of Mother Teresa: From Charity to Modern Visions of
Humanity 10. Martin Luther King, Augustine, and Civil Disobedience By
Timothy W. Burns 11. "La Carità Propria" and the Uncertain Foundations of
Unarmed Principalities By William B. Parsons Jr. 12. Machiavelli's Humanity
By Nathan Tarcov 13. "Choice of Loss": The Revaluation of Roman Values in
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra By Paul A. Cantor 14. "When Vice Makes
Mercy": Classical, Christian, and Modern Humanism in Shakespeare's Measure
for Measure" By L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. 15. "Tis charity to show":
Shakespeare's Kindly Art in The Taming of the Shrew By Diana J. Schaub 16.
New Virtues for Masters of Nature By Henry Higuera 17. The Model of Human
Nature and the Revision of Premises in Spinoza's Ethics By Richard Velkley
18. Interpreting Honor Politically By Ran Halévi III. Compassion and the
Angst of Late Modernity 19. Locke's Compassion-and Rousseau's By Steven
Forde 20. Rousseau's Rome: How the Model of All Free Peoples Governed
Themselves By Bryan-Paul Frost 21. Rousseau and the Case for and against
Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism By Christopher Kelly 22. Hegel as Educator:
Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit as a Pedagogical Classic By Waller R.
Newell 23. Reason, Will, and the Image of Humanity: The Criticism of
Rationalism by Dostoevsky's Underground Man and Nietzsche's Zarathustra By
Jeffrey Metzger 24. Is It Possible to Reconcile Reason and Revelation?
Their Mutual Relations in the Thought of Leo Strauss By Kenneth Hart Green
25. History, Technology, and Justice: George Grant's Discovery of Rousseau
By Hugh Donald Forbes 26. "Gods of Vengeance and Compassion": The Withering
Criticism of Compassion in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian By Brent Edwin
Cusher IV. Liberalism, Humanitarianism and Contemporary Affairs 27.
Character vs. Free Will: Aristotle and Kant on Moral Responsibility By
Arthur M. Melzer 28. A Kantian Critique of "Public Reason" By Susan Meld
Shell 29. On the Uses and Abuses of the Notion of Sovereignty By Miguel
Morgado 30. Europe's Democratic Odyssey By Marc F. Plattner 31. Humane
Warfare: An Ancient Perspective on a Modern Dilemma By Linda R. Rabieh 32.
A Polemic for Pedagogy? Or Socratic Pedagogy and Postmodern Partisanship in
Liberal Education By Michael Rosano