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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788146803321

Titolo

In search of humanity : essays in honor of Clifford Orwin / / edited by Andrea Radasanu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-1324-7

0-7391-8417-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (563 p.)

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Humanity

Humanity in literature

Human behavior

Human behavior in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Humanity10 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



Humanitarianism22 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

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>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. </span></span>