Recovering Reason Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle
by Burns, Timothy; Ahrensdorf, Peter J.; Saxonhouse, Arlene; Forde, Steven; Rahe, Paul A.; Zuckert, Michael; Stauffer, Devin; Leibowitz, David; Goldberg, Robert; Bruell, Christopher; Rabieh, Linda R.; Ruderman, Richard S.; Baldwin, Christopher; Owen, J Judd;Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-08-06
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Timothy Burns is associate professor of government at Skidmore College.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Pre-Socratic Thought | p. 1 |
| Homer and the Foundation of Classical Civilization | p. 3 |
| Prometheus and Oedipus: The Arrogance and Limits of Art and Reason | p. 17 |
| What War Discloses | p. 31 |
| The Classical Rationalism of Thucydides | p. 53 |
| The Aristophanic Question | p. 67 |
| On the Power of Rhetoric: Gorgias and the Philosophic Foundation of Sophistry | p. 83 |
| Socratic Rationalism | p. 99 |
| Socrates and the Sophists | p. 101 |
| Thrasymachus's Blush | p. 117 |
| Civic or Human Virtue in Aristotle's Politics | p. 129 |
| Happiness in the Perspective of Philosophy | p. 147 |
| Maimonides's Treatment of Providence | p. 161 |
| A Slingshot Recoils: The Critique of Philosophy in Halevi's Kuzari | p. 179 |
| On Leo Strauss | p. 193 |
| Thinking Nietzsche Through and Strauss's Recovery of Classical Political Philosophy | p. 195 |
| John Toland and Leo Strauss on Esoteric Writing | p. 209 |
| Did Plato Believe in his own Metaphysics? And Did Strauss? | p. 223 |
| Leo Strauss on Machiavelli and the Origins of Modernity | p. 239 |
| Modern Political Philosophy | p. 249 |
| Aristotelian Kingship and Lockean Prerogative | p. 251 |
| "For Which Human Nature Can Never Be Too Grateful": Montesquieu as the Heir of Christianity | p. 269 |
| "They Flock into Cities; Their Situation is Less Precarious": David Hume and the Intellectual Origins of the American Founding | p. 285 |
| Rousseau on the Philosophical Life Les rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire | p. 305 |
| Schiller on Aesthetic Education: Radicalization by Return | p. 325 |
| Stendhal and the Promise of Happiness: An Introduction to the Charterhouse of Parma | p. 345 |
| Tocqueville's Burke, or Story as History | p. 369 |
| Contemporary Issues and Political Philosophy | p. 377 |
| Corrupting or Edifying? Cato the Elder and Cicero on the Role of Philosophy in Roman Civic Education | p. 379 |
| Abstract Painting and the Rule of Doubt | p. 399 |
| Kissinger and Thucydides | p. 413 |
| Charles Taylor as a Theorist of Multiculturalism Recognition/Authenticity | p. 421 |
| Neuroplasticity, Perfectibility, and Three Ideas of Nature | p. 443 |
| Bibliography of the Published Work of Thomas L. Pangle | p. 465 |
| Index | p. 475 |
| About the Contributors | p. 483 |
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