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In search of humanity : essays in honor of Clifford Orwin / edited by Andrea Radasanu.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
- Thucydides.
- Humanity.
- Humanity in literature.
- Human behavior.
- Human behavior in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (563 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <span><span>This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of "humanity" through the history of political philosophy. </span></span>
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Part I: Ancient Inquiries into Humanity; 1 Civilization and the Gods in the Eumenides; 2 Philosophy and "Humanity"; 3 Preliminary Observations on the Treaties in Thucydides' Work; 4 Reflections on the Humanity (and Inhumanity) of Thucydides; 5 The Spartan Alcibiades; 6 The Tragedy of Demosthenes in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War; 7 Moral Indignation, Magnanimity, and Philosophy in the Trial of the Armenian King; 8 Humanity and Divinity in Xenophon's Defense of Socrates; 9 Education after Freedom
- Part II: The Taming of Mother Teresa: From Charity to Modern Visions of Humanity10 Martin Luther King, Augustine, and Civil Disobedience; 11 "La Carità Propria" and the Uncertain Foundations of Unarmed Principalities; 12 Machiavelli's Humanity; 13 "Choice of Loss"; 14 "When Vice Makes Mercy"; 15 "'Tis Charity to Show"; 16 New Virtue for Masters of Nature; 17 The Model of Human Nature and the Revision of Premises in Spinoza's Ethics; 18 Interpreting Honor Politically; Part III: Compassion and the Angst of Late Modernity; 19 Locke's Compassion-and Rousseau's; 20 Rousseau's Rome
- 21 Rousseau and the Case For and Against Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism22 Hegel as Educator; 23 Reason, Will, and the Image of Humanity; 24 Is It Possible to Reconcile Reason and Revelation?; 25 History, Technology, and Justice; 26 "Gods of Vengeance and Compassion"; Part IV: Liberalism, Humanitarianism, and Contemporary Affairs; 27 Character vs. Free Will; 28 "More [Than] Human"; 29 On the Uses and Abuses of the Notion of Sovereignty; 30 Europe's Democratic Odyssey; 31 Humane Warfare; 32 A Polemic for Pedagogy?; Index; About the Editor and Contributors
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 09, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-4985-1324-7
- 0-7391-8417-2
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