Enlightening revolutions : essays in honor of Ralph Lerner / edited by Svetozar Minkov with the assistance of Stéphane Douard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lerner, Ralph.

Minkov, Svetozar, 1975-

Douard, Stéphane, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xi, 399 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]

Summary:

The essays collected in this volume make a serious, enlightened contribution to the history of political philosophy. While offering striking new interpretations of crucial texts and events in the history of the West, they illuminate fundamental questions of politics, religion, and philosophy.

Contents:

I The Medieval Renaissance

1 The Moral Status of Teaching and Writing / Miriam Galston 3

2 Averroes on Law and Political Well-Being / Charles E. Butterworth 23

3 Prudence, Imagination, and Determination of Law in Alfarabi and Maimonides / Joshua Parens 31

4 Averroes, Dante and the Dawn of European Enlightenment / Joel L. Kraemer 57

II The Modern Revolution

5 Law and Innovation in Machiavelli's Prince / Nathan Tarcov 77

6 Resistance to Punishment: Controversies Old and New / Thomas S. Schrock 91

7 The Right to Life and Human Dignity / Leon R. Kass 127

III The Place of Philosophy in Modernity

8 Swift Sailing / Ryan Patrick Hanley 145

9 Montesquieu's Prelude: An Interpretation of Book I of The Spirit of Laws / Stuart D. Warner 161

10 Adam Smith on Natural Liberty and Moral Corruption: The Wisdon of Nature and Folly of Legislators? / Lauren Brubaker 191

IV Equality and Greatness in Tocqueville and America

11 Who Is Publius? The Debate Over the Constitution and the American Revolution / Michael Zuckert 221

12 Benjamin Franklin's Biblical Parable on Toleration / Laurence Berns 229

13 Tocqueville as Politician: Revisiting the Revolution of 1789 / Robert T. Gannett Jr. 235

14 Tocqueville's Understanding of "Conditions of Equality" and "Conditions of Inequality" / Gerald Stourzh 259

15 Democratic Greatness in the Founding / Harvey C. Mansfield 281

V Learning from Antiquity and the Thought of Leo Strauss

16 Justice Overruled: The Ambition of Xenophon's Cyrus the Great / Robert Faulkner 289

17 Plato and Relativism / Christopher Bruell 309

18 Is There a Right to Live as We Please? (So Long as We Respect the Right of Others to Do the Same) / David Bolotin 319

19 Two Nations Were in Her Womb: Contemporary Liberal Democracy and the Political Teaching of the Bible / Hillel Fradkin 335

20 Leo Strauss in His Letters / Werner J. Dannhauser 355

21 How Strauss Became Strauss / Heinrich Meier 363

The Writings of Ralph Lerner 385.

Notes:

"The writings of Ralph Lerner": pages 385-389.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739109448

OCLC:

63692568

Publisher Number:

9780739109441