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The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's \Reveries of the Solitary Walker\
The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's
\"Reveries of the Solitary Walker\" is the first complete
exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating
work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching.
The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature
that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Thomas L.
Pangle argues that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an
in-depth interpretation of the writing's complex and multileveled
intended teaching about the normatively best way of life-and how
essential this is for a work that was initially bewildering.
Rousseau stands out among modern political philosophers in that
he restored, to political philosophy, what Socrates and his
students (from Plato and Xenophon through Aristotle and the Stoics
and Cicero) had made central-and that the previous modern,
Enlightenment philosophers had eclipsed: the study of the life and
soul of the exemplary, independent sage, as possessor of \"human
wisdom.\" Rousseau made this again the supreme theme and source of
norms for political philosophy and for humanity's moral as well as
civic existence.
In his analysis of The Reveries , Pangle uncovers
Rousseau's most profound exploration and articulation of his own
life, personality, soul, and thought as \"the man of nature
enlightened by reason.\" He describes, in Rousseau's final work, the
fullest embodiment of the experiential wisdom from which flows and
to which points Rousseau's political and moral philosophy, his
theology, and his musical and literary art.
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Political philosophy and the God of Abraham
In this book noted scholar Thomas L. Pangle brings back a lost and crucial dimension of political theory: the mutually illuminating encounter between skeptically rationalist political philosophy and faith-based political theology guided ultimately by the authority of the Bible. Focusing on the chapters of Genesis in which the foundation of the Bible is laid, Pangle provides an interpretive reading illuminated by the questions and concerns of the Socratic tradition and its medieval heirs in the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic worlds. He brings into contrast the rival interpretive framework set by the biblical criticism of the modern rationalists Hobbes and Spinoza, along with their heirs from Locke to Hegel. The full meaning of these diverse philosophic responses to the Bible is clarified through a dialogue with hermeneutic discussions by leading political theologians in the Judaic, Muslim, and Christian traditions, from Josephus and Augustine to our day. Profound and subtle in its argument, this book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of politics, philosophy, and religion but also to thoughtful readers in every walk of life who seek to deepen their understanding of the perplexing relationship between religious faith and philosophic reason.
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The Theban Plays
The timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles-Oedipus the Tyrant,Oedipus at Colonus, andAntigone-have fascinated and moved audiences and readers across the ages with their haunting plots and their unforgettable heroes and heroines. Now, following the best texts faithfully, and translating the key moral, religious, and political terminology of the plays accurately and consistently, Peter J. Ahrensdorf and Thomas L. Pangle allow contemporary readers to study the most literally exact reproductions of precisely what Sophocles wrote, rendered in readily comprehensible English.
These translations enable readers to engage the Theban plays of Sophocles in their full, authentic complexity, and to study with precision the plays' profound and enduring human questions. In the preface, notes to the plays, and introductions, Ahrensdorf and Pangle supply critical historical, mythic, and linguistic background information, and highlight the moral, religious, political, philosophic, and psychological questions at the heart of each of the plays. Even readers unfamiliar with Greek drama will find what they need to experience, reflect on, and enjoy these towering works of classical literature.
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The key texts of political philosophy : an introduction
\"This book introduces readers to analytical interpretation of seminal writings and thinkers in the history of political thought, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Marx, and Nietzsche. Chronologically arranged, each chapter in the book is devoted to the work of a single thinker. The selected texts together engage with 2000 years of debate on fundamental questions including: what is the purpose of political life? What is justice? What is a right? Do human beings have rights? What kinds of human virtues are there and which regimes best promote them? The difficulty of accessing the texts included in this volume is the result not only of their subtlety but also of the dramatic change in everyday life. The authors shed light on the texts' vocabulary and complexities of thought and help students understand and weigh the various interpretations of each philosopher's thought\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Leo Strauss : an introduction to his thought and intellectual legacy
Leo Strauss's controversial writings have long exercised a profound subterranean cultural influence. Now their impact is emerging into broad daylight, where they have been met with a flurry of poorly informed, often wildly speculative, and sometimes rather paranoid pronouncements.This book, written as a corrective, is the first accurate, non-polemical, comprehensive guide to Strauss's mature political philosophy and its intellectual influence. Thomas L. Pangle opens a pathway into Strauss's major works with one question: How does Strauss's philosophic thinking contribute to our democracy's civic renewal and to our culture's deepening, critical self-understanding?This book includes a synoptic critical survey of writings from scholars who have extended Strauss's influence into the more practical, sub-philosophic fields of social and political science and commentary. Pangle shows how these analysts have in effect imported Straussian impulses into a \"new\" kind of political and social science.
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A Discussion of Daniel A. Bell’s The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
A review essay covering a book by Daniel A. Bell, The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (2015). This book is a deeply stimulating contribution to normative political theory. Its core argument is that China instantiates (imperfectly) a meritocratic \"ideal\" that is a superior alternative to contemporary liberal-electoral democracy. This \"ideal unique to China\" (p. 180) is a practical \"model\" and a \"standard,\" with \"the potential to remedy key defects of electoral democracy\": \"China can assist other countries seeking to build up meritocratic rule\" (pp. 61, 79, 195, 197). Yet \"from a theoretical point of view,\" the \"ideal itself is not so clear\" (p. 67). My aim is to assist readers in clarifying the ideal.
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The Theban plays
The timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles - 'Oedipus the Tyrant', 'Oedipus at Colonus', and 'Antigone' - have fascinated and moved audiences and readers across the ages with their haunting plots and their unforgettable heroes and heroines. Now, following the best texts faithfully, and translating the key moral, religious, and poltical terminology of the plays accurately and consistently, Peter J. Ahrensdorf and Thomas L. Pangle allow contemporary readers to study the most literally exact reproductions of precisely what Sophocles wrote, rendered in readily comprehensive English.
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