Political philosophy cross-examined : perennial challenges to the philosophic life
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Political philosophy cross-examined : perennial challenges to the philosophic life
（Recovering political philosophy）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
- : pbk
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"Essays in Honor of Heinrich Meier."
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Description
Political societies frequently regard philosophers as potential threats to morality and religion, and those who speak for politics often demand a defense of philosophy. This book will address philosophy as a mode of existence put into question.
Table of Contents
- 1. Sophistry as a Way of Life
- Robert C. Bartlett 2. Aristotle on Theory and Practice
- Christopher Bruell 3. Aristotle's Politics Book 7 on the Best Way of Life
- Thomas L. Pangle 4. Inexhaustible Riches: Mining the Bible
- J. Harvey Lomax 5. On the Philosophic Character of Tacitus' Imperial Political History and Science
- James Nichols 6. Maimonides on Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Guide of the Perplexed I.2
- Ronna Burger 7. Machiavelli in the Prince: His Way of Life in Question
- Nathan Tarcov 8. Of Human Ends in Bacon's Essayes
- Ralph Lerner 9. Hobbes's Natural Theology
- Devin Stauffer 10. Rousseau's Happiness in Freedom
- Hasso Hofmann 11. Heidegger on Nietzsche on Nihilism
- Robert B. Pippin 12. How Benardete Read the Last Stage of Socrates' Philosophic Education
- Laurence Lampert
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