Politics, nature, and piety : on the natural basis of political life / Laurence Berns ; edited by Alex Priou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berns, Laurence, 1928- author.

Contributor:

Priou, Alex, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 359 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Paul Dry Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2022.

Summary:

"The essays in Politics, Nature, and Piety take up the central question of political philosophy: What is the good life, and what place do nature, politics, and piety have in that life? 'The unity of the essays,' Alex Priou writes in his introduction, 'lies in the various tensions explored: between ancients and moderns, religion and philosophy, magnanimity and prudence, justice and friendship, and, most fundamentally, spiritedness and the intellect.' Laurence Berns proves an excellent guide for beginning one's study of the great books of political philosophy, from Plato to the present." --Publisher's description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Natural Basis of Political Life: Nature and Convention in Human Speech and Politics

2. Tragedy and Religion in Aristotle's Poetics

3. Gratitude, Nature, and Piety in King Lear

4. Francis Bacon and the Conquest of Nature

5. Thomas Hobbes: A Founding Father of Modern Social Science

6. Putting Things Back Together Again in Kant

7. Radical Historicism and the Attempt to Transcend Philosophy: Some Reflections on Strauss, Heidegger, and Husserl

8. The Relation Between Philosophy and Religion: Three Fundamental Alternatives

9. Spiritedness in Ethics and Politics: A Study in Aristotelian Psychology

10. Aristotle and the Moderns on Freedom and Equality

11. Aristotle and Adam Smith on Justice: Cooperation Between Ancients and Moderns?

12. Classical Prudence and the Declaration's Right to Revolution: Two Old Conservatives Discuss the Anastaplo Case (A Dialogue)

13. Xenophon's Alcibiades and Pericles on the Question of Law, with Applications to the Polity of the United States

14. Madmen and Philosophers: A Note on Xenophon's Memorabilia 1.1.13 and 14.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-359)

ISBN:

9781589881693

1589881699

OCLC:

1315739106