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;

• ISBN13: 9780739146323
• ISBN10: 0739146327
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-06
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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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