Introduction | p. ix |
Athens and Jerusalem | |
"In the Beginning …" | p. 3 |
The Mazkir | p. 13 |
The Philosophy of Socrates or the Gods the City Believes In | p. 39 |
The Transformation of Courage in Plato's Laches | p. 65 |
Literature Ancient and Modern | |
Herodotus and Homer on Helen: An Essay on History and Poetry | p. 87 |
Treason and Parricide among the Ancient Greeks | p. 103 |
For Love of One's Teachers: Dante, Virgil, and Paganism | p. 117 |
How One Philosophizes with a Scalpel: Darwin, Nietzsche, and Wells' s The Island of Doctor Moreau | p. 131 |
Literature and the Moral Universe: Camus's The Stranger and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment | p. 161 |
The Turn to the New World | |
Spinoza's Defense of the Bible: A Model of Modern Statesmanship | p. 187 |
Jaffa's Missing Link: Milton's Natural Right Republicanism | p. 203 |
The Return to First Things | |
The Essence of Babel: Rousseau on the Origin of Languages | p. 229 |
The Domestication of Nature: A Reading of Darwin's The Origin of Species | p. 251 |
Publications | p. 269 |
Index | p. 275 |
About the Contributors | p. 281 |
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