Enlightening Revolutions: Essays in Honor of Ralph LernerSvetozar Minkov, Stéphane Douard Lexington Books, 2006 - 399 páginas Enlightening Revolutions--a collection of outstanding essays by highly prominent scholars--examines the different ways in which the relation between politics and philosophy has been understood and enacted over the ages. The volume sheds light on key theoretical and historical issues: the intriguing position and historical influence of medieval Jewish and Islamic rationalism; the advent of modernity in the thought of Machiavelli and Hobbes; the prospects for greatness in modernity as seen by Adam Smith, Jonathan Swift, the Founding Fathers, and Alexis de Tocqueville; and the prospects for philosophic excellence in modern times as seen by, among others, Montesquieu and Leo Strauss, as well as through the eyes of Plato and the Bible. The volume is dedicated to Ralph Lerner, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. It honors Lerner's splendid teaching and scholarship over half a century, and testifies in some measure to his enlightening, enlivening, gracefully witty, and humanizing activity and example. |
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... virtue and prudence , namely , the legis- lator's exhortation to virtue . The punitive aspect of law is primarily of relevance to those who feel no shame in acting viciously . In the exhortation to virtue , rhetoric and poetry , as ...
... virtue and prudence , namely , the legis- lator's exhortation to virtue . The punitive aspect of law is primarily of relevance to those who feel no shame in acting viciously . In the exhortation to virtue , rhetoric and poetry , as ...
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... virtue was not sufficiently tested by being exposed to the temptation of destroying something good . Is there not some greater virtue that will bring great men to restrain themselves ? Or more : can they not find glory in accepting if ...
... virtue was not sufficiently tested by being exposed to the temptation of destroying something good . Is there not some greater virtue that will bring great men to restrain themselves ? Or more : can they not find glory in accepting if ...
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... virtue he endorses by implication republican suspicion of noble virtue in great men . Franklin shows that the " sound morality " that Lincoln asked for does not include admiration of noble virtue . It may admire noble individuals but ...
... virtue he endorses by implication republican suspicion of noble virtue in great men . Franklin shows that the " sound morality " that Lincoln asked for does not include admiration of noble virtue . It may admire noble individuals but ...
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The Moral Status of Teaching and Writing | 3 |
Averroes on Law and Political WellBeing | 23 |
Prudence Imagination and Determination of Law in 331 | 31 |
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