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There was intense debate on ratification during the period from the
drafting and proposal of the federal Constitution in September 1787
to its ratification in 1789. The principal arguments in favor of
ratification were documented by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay in "The
Federalist." The arguments against ratification appeared in various
forms, by various authors, most of whom used a pseudonym.
Collectively, these writings have become known as the
Anti-Federalist papers.
"
The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle" makes
available for the first time a one-volume collection of
Anti-Federalist writings that are commensurate in scope,
significance, political brilliance, and depth with those in "The
Federalist." Included in this volume as an appendix is a
computational and contextual analysis that addresses the question
of the authorship of two of the most well-known pseudonymous
Anti-Federalist writings, namely, "Essays of a Federal Farmer" and
"Essays of Brutus." Also included are the records of Smith's
important speeches at the New York Ratifying Convention, some
shorter writings of Smith's from the ratification debate, and a set
of private letters Smith wrote on constitutional subjects at the
time of the ratification struggle.
Michael Zuckert is Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor and Chair of the
Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.
Derek A. Webb received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame
and is currently a student at Georgetown Law School.
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
There was intense debate on ratification during the period from the
drafting and proposal of the federal Constitution in September 1787
to its ratification in 1789. The principal arguments in favor of
ratification were documented by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay in "The
Federalist." The arguments against ratification appeared in various
forms, by various authors, most of whom used a pseudonym.
Collectively, these writings have become known as the
Anti-Federalist papers.
"
The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle" makes
available for the first time a one-volume collection of
Anti-Federalist writings that are commensurate in scope,
significance, political brilliance, and depth with those in "The
Federalist." Included in this volume as an appendix is a
computational and contextual analysis that addresses the question
of the authorship of two of the most well-known pseudonymous
Anti-Federalist writings, namely, "Essays of a Federal Farmer" and
"Essays of Brutus." Also included are the records of Smith's
important speeches at the New York Ratifying Convention, some
shorter writings of Smith's from the ratification debate, and a set
of private letters Smith wrote on constitutional subjects at the
time of the ratification struggle.
Michael Zuckert is Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor and Chair of the
Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.
Derek A. Webb received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame
and is currently a student at Georgetown Law School.
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