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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