In Search of Humanity : Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin.
Radasanu, Andrea.
In Search of Humanity : Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (563 pages)
Intro -- 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 Humanity -- 10 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 Humanitarianism -- 22 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.
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.
9780739184172
Human behavior.
Electronic books.
BJ1533.H9 -- .I528 2015eb
320.01
In Search of Humanity : Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (563 pages)
Intro -- 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 Humanity -- 10 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 Humanitarianism -- 22 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.
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.
9780739184172
Human behavior.
Electronic books.
BJ1533.H9 -- .I528 2015eb
320.01