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

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (563 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetto topico: Humanity; Humanity in literature; Human behavior; Human behavior in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): OrwinClifford <1947->; RadasanuAndrea <1973->; RadasanuAndrea
• 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>
• Titolo autorizzato: In search of humanity
• ISBN: 1-4985-1324-7; 0-7391-8417-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788146803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II