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Ann Ward Radcliffe; Contributions by Mint Editions
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The volume: • Presents a systematic understanding of core
pollical concepts • Explores key thinkers such as Aristotle,
Cicero, Hobbes, Locke Rousseau, de Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt,
Weil, Grant, Manent • Will be invaluable to students and teachers
of political science, especially political theory and philosophy
The author explores the recovery of Socratic philosophy in the
political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, John Stuart
Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Ward identifies the cause of the
renewed interest in Socrates in Hegel's call for the absorption of
the individual within the modern, liberal state and the concomitant
claim that Socratic skepticism should cease because history has
reached its end and perfection. Recoiling from Hegel's attempt to
chain the individual within the "cave," nineteenth century thinkers
push back against his deification of the state. Yet, underlying
Kierkegaard, Mill and Nietzsche's turn to Socrates is their
acceptance of Hegel's critique of the liberal conception of the
rights-bearing individual. Like Hegel, they agree that such an
individual is an unworthy competitor to the state. In search of a
noble individual to hold up against the state and counter the
belief in the "end" of history, Kierkegaard, Mill and Nietzsche
bring back and transform Socrates in significant ways. For
Kierkegaard the Socratic philosopher in modern times is the person
of faith, for Mill the public intellectual whose idiosyncratic
identity arises from the freedom of speech, and for Nietzsche the
Dionysian artist. Each model the beauty of individuality in our
democratic age.
The volume: * Presents a systematic understanding of core pollical
concepts * Explores key thinkers such as Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes,
Locke Rousseau, de Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, Weil, Grant,
Manent * Will be invaluable to students and teachers of political
science, especially political theory and philosophy
This book examines the basic tenets of nation, nationalism and
citizenship. It explores the relevance of the nation-state to human
freedom and flourishing, as well as the concept of citizenship that
it implies, in contrast to that of the ancient polis and the
"global community." The volume focusses on the shifting notions of
various political concepts over time to present a systematic
understanding of core concepts such as polis, nation and state from
antiquity to the present. It includes contributions that analyze
ancient and modern thought, and sections that address postmodern
and contemporary thinkers, including Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes,
Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, Weil, Grant and
Manent. A comprehensive handbook to introductory politics, this
book will be invaluable to students and teachers of political
science, especially political theory, political philosophy,
democracy, political participation and international relations
theory.
This book examines the basic tenets of nation, nationalism and
citizenship. It explores the relevance of the nation-state to human
freedom and flourishing, as well as the concept of citizenship that
it implies, in contrast to that of the ancient polis and the
"global community." The volume focusses on the shifting notions of
various political concepts over time to present a systematic
understanding of core concepts such as polis, nation and state from
antiquity to the present. It includes contributions that analyze
ancient and modern thought, and sections that address postmodern
and contemporary thinkers, including Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes,
Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, Weil, Grant and
Manent. A comprehensive handbook to introductory politics, this
book will be invaluable to students and teachers of political
science, especially political theory, political philosophy,
democracy, political participation and international relations
theory.
This comprehensive research companion examines the theory, practice
and historical development of the principle of federalism from the
ancient period to the contemporary world. It provides a range of
interpretations and integrates theoretical and practical aspects of
federalism studies more fully than is usually the case. The volume
identifies and examines nascent conceptions of the federal idea in
ancient and medieval history and political thought before
considering the roots of modern federalism in the ideas of a number
of important European political theorists of the sixteenth through
eighteenth centuries. The contributors focus on the development and
institutionalization of the principle of federalism in the American
Republic and examine the historical development and central policy
debates surrounding European federalism. The final sections
investigate contemporary debates about theories of federalism and
regional experiences of federalism in a global context including
Africa, India, Australia, the Middle East, and North and South
America. The scope and range of this volume is unparalleled; it
will provide the reader with a firm understanding of federalism as
issues of federalism promise to play an ever more important role in
shaping our world.
A life of liberty and responsibility does not just happen, but
requires a particular kind of education, one that aims at both a
growth of the human soul and an enrichment of political society in
justice and the common good. This we call a liberal education.
Forgetfulness of liberty is also a forgetfulness of the
multi-dimensional nature of the human person, and a diminution of
political life. Keeping in mind what can be lost when liberal
education is lost, this volume makes the case for recovering what
is perennially noble and good in the liberal arts, and why the
liberal arts always have a role to play in human flourishing. Each
of the authors herein focuses on the connection of three primary
themes: human dignity, liberal education, and political society.
Intentionally rooted in the hub that joins the three themes, each
author seeks to unfold the contemporary significance of that hub.
As a whole, the volume explores how the three themes are crucial to
each other: how they illuminate each other, how they need each
other, and how the loss of one jeopardizes the wellbeing of the
others. In individual chapters, the authors engage various relevant
aspects of liberal education. As a result, the volume is organized
into three parts: Liberal Education and a Life Well Lived; Thinkers
on Dignity and Education in History; Contemporary Topics in Dignity
and Education. As education is increasingly channeled into an ever
more narrow focus on technical specialization, and measured against
professional success, students themselves face a maelstrom of
campus politics and competing political orthodoxies. These are
among the issues that tend to militate against the operative
liberty of the student to think and to speak as a person. This
edited collection is offered as an invitation to think again about
the liberal arts in order to recover the meaning of education as
the authentic pursuit of the good life or eudemonia.
Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed
between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates
articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source
of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a
significant impact on his political philosophy: he argues that
humans are by nature political animals, having their natural end in
the city whose regime is hierarchically structured based on
differences in moral and intellectual capacity. Medieval theorists
attempt to synthesize classical natural and political philosophy
with the revealed truths of scripture; they argue that divine
reason structures an ordered universe, the awareness of which
allows for psychic and political harmony among human beings.
Enlightenment thinkers challenge the natural philosophy of
classical and medieval philosophers, ushering in a more liberal
political order. For example, for Hobbes, there is no rest in
nature as there are no Aristotelian forms or natural places that
govern matter. Hobbes applies his mechanistic understanding of
material nature to his understanding of human nature: individuals
are by nature locked in an endless pursuit of power until death.
However, from this mechanistic understanding of humanity's natural
condition, Hobbes develops a social contract theory in which civil
and political society is constituted from consent. Later thinkers,
such as Locke and Rousseau, modify this Hobbesian premise in their
pursuit of the protection of rights and a free society.
Nevertheless, materialist conceptions of the cosmos have not always
given rise to liberal democratic philosophies. Historicist
influence on scientific inquiry in the nineteenth century is
connected to Darwin's theory of evolution; Darwin reasoned that
over time the process of natural selection produces ever newer and
more highly adapted species. Reflecting a form of social Darwinism,
Nietzsche envisions an aristocratic order that draws its
inspiration from art rather than the rationalism
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