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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. The contributors write in awareness
that a loss of confidence in reason similar to the one we are
witnessing today when the desirability and possibility of guiding
our lives by the enduring, normative truths that reason attempts to
discover had occurred at the time of Socrates, who realized that
the existence of genuine limits to what is knowable by reason
opened up the possibility that our world, instead of having the
kind of intelligible necessities that science seeks to uncover,
could be the work of mysterious, creative gods or god as devoutly
religious citizens claimed it to be. His grasp of this great
difficulty led him and his students ancient and medieval to attempt
to ground the life of reason by means of a pre-philosophic,
preliminary investigation of political-moral questions. Modern
political philosophers later attempted to ground the life of reason
in a considerably different, 'enlightening' way. These essays
examine both of these 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. The volume is divided into five
parts. The essays in Part I examine the moral-political problems
through which Socrates came to ground the philosophic life as those
problems first appeared in earlier, pre-Socratic writers. Part II
explores those problems in their Platonic and Aristotelian
presentations, and in the work of two medieval thinkers. Part III
addresses the thought of Leo Strauss, the thinker upon whose work
the recovery of both ancient and modern political philosophy in our
day has been made possible. Part IV explicates the writings of
modern political philosophers and thinkers with a view to
uncovering their alternative approach to science and political
life. The volume concludes in Part V with essays addressing
contemporary problems enlightened by the study of political
philosophy.
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. The contributors write in awareness
that a loss of confidence in reason similar to the one we are
witnessing today when the desirability and possibility of guiding
our lives by the enduring, normative truths that reason attempts to
discover had occurred at the time of Socrates, who realized that
the existence of genuine limits to what is knowable by reason
opened up the possibility that our world, instead of having the
kind of intelligible necessities that science seeks to uncover,
could be the work of mysterious, creative gods or god as devoutly
religious citizens claimed it to be. His grasp of this great
difficulty led him and his students ancient and medieval to attempt
to ground the life of reason by means of a pre-philosophic,
preliminary investigation of political-moral questions. Modern
political philosophers later attempted to ground the life of reason
in a considerably different, "enlightening" way. These essays
examine both of these 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. The volume is divided into five
parts. The essays in Part I examine the moral-political problems
through which Socrates came to ground the philosophic life as those
problems first appeared in earlier, pre-Socratic writers. Part II
explores those problems in their Platonic and Aristotelian
presentations, and in the work of two medieval thinkers. Part III
addresses the thought of Leo Strauss, the thinker upon whose work
the recovery of both ancient and modern political philosophy in our
day has been made possible. Part IV explicates the writings of
modern political philosophers and thinkers with a view to
uncovering their alternative approach
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.
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.
Can the education which so many search for today on our college
campuses be found in the works of a past author? On the Socratic
Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues
uncovers the education that Socrates sought on his own behalf and,
in so doing, made available to others. Sixteen dialogues are
discussed, each considered on its own, but also placed within the
context of Plato's account of the Socratic quest. The aim of the
book is to make Socrates' investigation and resolution of the
questions that still concern us as human beings more accessible to
serious contemporary readers.
In this book, 19 prominent representatives of each side in the
basic division among Strauss's followers explore his contribution
to political philosophy and Jewish thought. The volume presents the
most extensive analysis yet published of Strauss's religious
heritage and how it related to his work, and includes Strauss's
previously unpublished 'Why We Remain Jews, ' an extraordinary
essay concerned with the challenge posed to Judaism by modern
secular thought. The extensive introduction interrelates the major
themes of Strauss's thought
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