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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970795203321

Titolo

Natural right and political philosophy : essays in honor of Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert / / edited by Ann Ward and Lee Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013

ISBN

9780268096618

0268096619

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WardAnn

WardLee

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Natural law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Classical Natural Right""; ""Chapter One: Virtue and Self-Control in Xenophon's Socratic Thought""; ""Chapter Two: The Complexity of Divine Speech and the Quest for the Ideas in Plato's Euthyphro""; ""Chapter Three: Politics and Philosophy in Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Laws""; ""Chapter Four: Both Friends and Truth Are Dear""; ""Chapter Five: Augustinian Humility as Natural Right""; ""Part II: Modern Natural Rights""; ""Chapter Six: On the Treatment of Moral Responsibility in Montaigne's Essays I.15-16""

""Chapter Seven: Benedict Spinoza and the Problem of Theocracy""""Chapter Eight: Criminal Procedure as the Most Important Knowledge and the Distinction between Human and Divine Justice in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws""; ""Chapter Nine: Personhood and Ethical Commercial Life""; ""Chapter Ten: Reflections on Faith and Reason""; ""Part III: American Political Thought and Practice""; ""Chapter Eleven: Locke, the Puritans, and America""; ""Chapter Twelve: Thomas Jefferson, the First American Progressive?""; ""Chapter Thirteen: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of American Constitutionalism""

""Chapter Fourteen: The Presidency in the Constitutional Convention of 1787""""Chapter Fifteen: From Statesman to Secular Saint""; ""Chapter Sixteen: Theodore Roosevelt on Statesmanship and Constitutionalism"";



""Part IV: Politics and Literature""; ""Chapter Seventeen: Of "Demagogic Apes"""; ""Chapter Eighteen: The Inevitable Monarchy""; ""Chapter Nineteen: Preliminary Observations on the Theologico-Political Dimension of Cervantes' Don Quixote""; ""Chapter Twenty: Custom, Change, and Character in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence""

""Chapter Twenty-One: "What's wrong with this picture?" """"Selected Publications by Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

University of Notre Dame political philosophers Catherine and Michael Zuckert explore the concept of natural right in the history of political philosophy.