Political Philosophy Cross-Examined: Perennial Challenges to the Philosophic LifeT. Pangle, J. Lomax Political societies frequently regard philosophers as potential threats to morality and religion, and those who speak for politics often demand a defense of philosophy. This book will address philosophy as a mode of existence put into question. |
Contents
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3 Aristotles Politics Book VII on the Best Way of Life | 29 |
Mining the Bible | 45 |
5 On the Philosophic Character of Tacituss Imperial Political History | 65 |
The Guide of the Perplexed I 2 | 78 |
8 Of Human Ends in Bacons Essayes | 119 |
9 Hobbess Natural Theology | 137 |
10 Rousseaus Happiness of Freedom | 153 |
11 Heidegger on Nietzsche on Nihilism | 172 |
12 How Benardete Read the Last Stage of Socratess Philosophic Education | 189 |
Bibliography of Heinrich Meier | 204 |
Notes on Contributors | 211 |
His Way of Life in Question | 101 |
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