The science of modern virtue : on Descartes, Darwin, and Locke / / edited by Peter Augustine Lawler and Marc D. Guerra ; Shaun Allshouse, design ; contributors Larry Arnhart [and twelve others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787841803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: DeKalb, Illinois : , : NIU Press, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-5017-5791-1; 1-60909-097-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Disciplina: 179/.9
• Soggetti: Virtue
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Matter""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 - Locke, Darwin, and the Science of Modern Virtue""; ""2 - The Virtue of Science and the Science of Virtue""; ""3 - Notes on “The Virtue of Science and the Science of Virtueâ€?""; ""4 - More Cartesian than Descartes""; ""5 - Lockeâ€?s Explanation of How the Science of CiviL society Corrects the Natural Authority of Virtue""; ""6 - The Problem of Humane Quality in Lockeâ€?s Political Philosophy""; ""7 - Locke, Darwin, and the Social Individualism of Virtue""; ""8 - Descartes, Locke, and the Virtue of the individual""; ""9 - Science, Virtue, and the Birth of Modernity""""10 - The Mutual Sacrifice of Science and Virtue""; ""11 - The Scientific Life as a Moral Life?""; ""12 - The Darwinian Science of Aristotelian Virtue""; ""13 - Logon Didonai the Case of the Darwinian Conservative""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Contributors""
• Sommario/riassunto: The Science of Modern Virtue examines the influence that the philosopher Rene Descartes, the political theorist John Locke, and the biologist Charles Darwin have had on our modern understanding of human beings and human virtue. Written by leading thinkers from a variety of fields, the volume is a study of the complex relation between modern science and modern virtue, between a kind of modern thought and a kind of modern action. Offering more than a series of substantive introductions to Descartes', Locke's, and Darwin's accounts of who we ; are and the kind of virtue to which we can aspire, the book invites readers to think about the ways in which the writings of these seminal thinkers shaped the democratic and technological world in which modern human beings live.Thirteen scholars in this volume learnedly explore questions drawn from the diverse disciplines of political science, philosophy, theology, biology, and metaphysics. Let the reader be warned: The authors of these essays are anything but consensual in their analysis. Considered together, the chapters in this volume carry on a lively internal debate that mirrors theoretical modernity's ongoing discussion about the true nature of human beings and the science of virtue. Some authors powerfully argue that Locke's and Darwin's thought is amenable to the claims made about human beings and human virtue by classical philosophers such as Aristotle and classical Christian theologians such as Thomas Aquinas. Others make the opposite case, drawing attention to the ways in which Descartes, Locke, and Darwin knowingly and dialectically depart from central teachings of both classical philosophy and classical Christian theology.

Participation and democracy, East and West : comparisons and interpretations / / edited by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Marilyn Rueschemeyer and Bjorn Wittrock

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778737303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015, c1998
• ISBN: 1-317-46318-8; 0-7656-0230-X; 1-315-70188-X; 0-585-00166-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RueschemeyerDietrich; RueschemeyerMarilyn <1938->; WittrockBjorn
• Disciplina: 321.8/09182/109049; 321.809182109049
• Soggetti: Comparative government; Democracy -- Europe, Eastern; Democracy -- Europe, Western; Democracy -- United States; Democracy - Europe, Eastern; Democracy - Europe, Western; Democracy - United States; Political Theory of the State; Political Science; Law, Politics & Government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 1998 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover ""; ""Half Title ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""About the Editors and Contributors""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Self-Organization of Society and Democratic Rule: Specifying the Relationship""; ""3. Institutions and Actors in a New Democracy: The Vanishing Legacy of Communist and Solidarity Types of Participation in Poland""; ""4. Local Democratization in the Czech Republic After 1989""; ""5. An Emerging Paradox: Civil Society from Above?""; ""6. The Social Democratic Party in Eastern Germany: Political Participation in the Former GDR After Unification""""7. The State, Associations, and the Transition to Democracy: Early Corporatism in Sweden""; ""8. The Norwegian Voluntary Sector and Civil Society in Transition: Women as Catalysts for Deep-Seated Change""; ""9. Social Alliances and Coalitions: The Organizational Underpinnings of Democracy in Western Germany""; ""10. Democracy in America at the End of the Twentieth Century""; ""11. Conclusion: Contrasting Patterns of Participation and Democracy""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Since Alexis de Tocqueville first made the linkage in his writings on America, a healthy democracy has been associated with the flourishing of civil society, as measured by popular participation in voluntary and civic activities and the vitality of organizations that mediate between the individual and the state. This volume takes a fresh look at this classic theme in the context of post-communist Eastern Europe, the West European welfare states and the United States, asking: what patterns of participation characterize the new democracies of Eastern Europe?; what levels of civic activism are ch