In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

563 Pages·2015·2.522 MB·English

by  Andrea Radasanu (ed.)

In Search of Humanity

In Search of Humanity
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
Edited by Andrea Radasanu
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1.Humanity.2.Humanityinliterature.3.Humanbehavior.4.Humanbehaviorinliterature.5.
Thucydides.HistoryofthePeloponnesianWar.I.Radasanu,Andrea,1973-editorofcompilation.II.
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Contents
Introduction ix
AndreaRadasanu
PartI:AncientInquiriesintoHumanity 1
1 CivilizationandtheGodsintheEumenides 3
MarkJ.Lutz
2 Philosophyand“Humanity”:ReflectionsonThucydideanPiety,
Justice,andNecessity 17
RyanBalot
3 PreliminaryObservationsontheTreatiesinThucydides’Work 37
RobertHowseandNoahLawrence
4 ReflectionsontheHumanity(andInhumanity)ofThucydides 51
S.N.Jaffe
5 TheSpartanAlcibiades:BrasidasandtheProspectofRegime
ChangeinSpartainThucydides’War 65
MichaelPalmer
6 TheTragedyofDemosthenesinThucydides’PeloponnesianWar 87
AndreaRadasanu
7 MoralIndignation,Magnanimity,andPhilosophyintheTrialof
theArmenianKing 101
LorraineSmithPangle
8 HumanityandDivinityinXenophon’sDefenseofSocrates 115
ThomasL.Pangle
9 EducationafterFreedom 129
MichaelS.Kochin
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vi Contents
PartII:TheTamingofMotherTeresa:FromCharityto
ModernVisionsofHumanity 149
10 MartinLutherKing,Augustine,andCivilDisobedience 151
TimothyW.Burns
11 “LaCaritàPropria”andtheUncertainFoundationsofUnarmed
Principalities 165
WilliamB.Parsons
12 Machiavelli’sHumanity 177
NathanTarcov
13 “ChoiceofLoss”:TheRevaluationofRomanValuesin
Shakespeare’sAntonyandCleopatra 187
PaulA.Cantor
14 “WhenViceMakesMercy”:Classical,Christian,andModern
HumanisminShakespeare’sMeasureforMeasure 209
L.JosephHebertJr.
15 “’TisCharitytoShow”:Shakespeare’sKindlyArtinThe
TamingoftheShrew 225
DianaJ.Schaub
16 NewVirtueforMastersofNature 245
HenryHiguera
17 TheModelofHumanNatureandtheRevisionofPremisesin
Spinoza’sEthics 263
RichardVelkley
18 InterpretingHonorPolitically 279
RanHalévi
PartIII:CompassionandtheAngstofLateModernity 301
19 Locke’sCompassion—andRousseau’s 303
StevenForde
20 Rousseau’sRome:HowtheModelofAllFreePeoples
GovernedThemselves 317
Bryan-PaulFrost
21 RousseauandtheCaseForandAgainstCosmopolitan
Humanitarianism 331
ChristopherKelly
22 HegelasEducator:ReadingthePhenomenologyofSpiritasa
PedagogicalClassic 347
WallerR.Newell
Contents vii
23 Reason,Will,andtheImageofHumanity:TheCriticismof
RationalismbyDostoevsky’sUndergroundManand
Nietzsche’sZarathustra 365
JeffreyMetzger
24 IsItPossibletoReconcileReasonandRevelation?:Their
MutualRelationsintheThoughtofLeoStrauss 381
KennethHartGreen
25 History,Technology,andJustice:OnGeorgeGrant’sDiscovery
ofRousseau 403
DonaldForbes
26 “GodsofVengeanceandCompassion”:TheWithering
CriticismofCompassioninCormacMcCarthy’sBloodMeridian 421
BrentEdwinCusher
PartIV:Liberalism,Humanitarianism,andContemporaryAffairs 433
27 Charactervs.FreeWill:AristotleandKantonMoral
Responsibility 435
ArthurM.Melzer
28 “More[Than]Human”:KantonLiberalEducationandthe
PublicUseofReason 449
SusanMeldShell
29 OntheUsesandAbusesoftheNotionofSovereignty 465
MiguelMorgado
30 Europe’sDemocraticOdyssey 487
MarcF.Plattner
31 HumaneWarfare:AnAncientPerspectiveonaModernDilemma 499
LindaR.Rabieh
32 APolemicforPedagogy?:OrSocraticPedagogyand
PostmodernPartisanshipinLiberalEducation 515
MichaelRosano
Index 531
AbouttheEditorandContributors 535