In Search of Humanity (eBook)

Andrea Radasanu is associate professor of political science at Northern Illinois University.

I. Ancient Inquiries into Humanity1. Civilization and the Gods in the EumenidesBy Mark J. Lutz2. Philosophy and “Humanity”: Reflections on Thucydidean Piety, Justice, and NecessityBy Ryan Balot3. Preliminary Observations on the Treaties in Thucydides’ WorkBy Robert Howse and Noah Laurence4. Reflections on the Humanity (and Inhumanity) of ThucydidesBy S. N. Jaffe5. The Spartan Alcibiades: Brasidas and the Prospect of Regime Change in Sparta in Thucydides’ WarBy Michael Palmer6. The Tragedy of Demosthenes in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian WarBy Andrea Radasanu7. Moral Indignation, Magnanimity, and Philosophy in the Trial of the Armenian King By Lorraine Smith Pangle8. Humanity and Divinity in Xenophon’s Defense of SocratesBy Thomas L. Pangle9. Education after FreedomBy Michael S. KochinII. The Taming of Mother Teresa: From Charity to Modern Visions of Humanity 10. Martin Luther King, Augustine, and Civil DisobedienceBy Timothy W. Burns11. “La Carità Propria” and the Uncertain Foundations of Unarmed Principalities By William B. Parsons Jr.12. Machiavelli’s HumanityBy Nathan Tarcov13. “Choice of Loss”: The Revaluation of Roman Values in Shakespeare’s Antony and CleopatraBy Paul A. Cantor14. “When Vice Makes Mercy”: Classical, Christian, and Modern Humanism in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure”By L. Joseph Hebert, Jr.15. “Tis charity to show”: Shakespeare’s Kindly Art in The Taming of the ShrewBy Diana J. Schaub16. New Virtues for Masters of NatureBy Henry Higuera17. The Model of Human Nature and the Revision of Premises in Spinoza’s EthicsBy Richard Velkley18. Interpreting Honor PoliticallyBy Ran HaléviIII. Compassion and the Angst of Late Modernity 19. Locke’s Compassion—and Rousseau’sBy Steven Forde20. Rousseau’s Rome: How the Model of All Free Peoples Governed ThemselvesBy Bryan-Paul Frost21. Rousseau and the Case for and against Cosmopolitan HumanitarianismBy Christopher Kelly22. Hegel as Educator: Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit as a Pedagogical ClassicBy Waller R. Newell23. Reason, Will, and the Image of Humanity: The Criticism of Rationalism by Dostoevsky’s Underground Man and Nietzsche’s ZarathustraBy Jeffrey Metzger24. Is It Possible to Reconcile Reason and Revelation? Their Mutual Relations in the Thought of Leo StraussBy Kenneth Hart Green25. History, Technology, and Justice: George Grant’s Discovery of RousseauBy Hugh Donald Forbes26. “Gods of Vengeance and Compassion”: The Withering Criticism of Compassion in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood MeridianBy Brent Edwin CusherIV. Liberalism, Humanitarianism and Contemporary Affairs27. Character vs. Free Will: Aristotle and Kant on Moral ResponsibilityBy Arthur M. Melzer28. A Kantian Critique of “Public Reason”By Susan Meld Shell29. On the Uses and Abuses of the Notion of SovereigntyBy Miguel Morgado30. Europe’s Democratic OdysseyBy Marc F. Plattner31. Humane Warfare: An Ancient Perspective on a Modern DilemmaBy Linda R. Rabieh32. A Polemic for Pedagogy? Or Socratic Pedagogy and Postmodern Partisanship in Liberal EducationBy Michael Rosano