Info
Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship [[electronic resource]]
| Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Busch Elizabeth Kaufer |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina | 370.1150973 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WhiteJonathan W
AgrestoJohn BauerleinMark BenolielPeter A BergnerJeff ColeBruce GioiaDana HirschE. D., Jr. <1928-> (Eric Donald) McClayWilfred M RadasanuAndrea SpillerLisa YonanJonathan |
| Soggetto topico |
Citizenship - Study and teaching - United States
Civics - Study and teaching - United States United States - Politics and government - Study and teaching |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-7391-7058-9
1-299-18482-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Foundations of Civic and Liberal Education; Chapter One: The Inspiring Idea of the Common School; Chapter Two: Memory and Sacrifice in the Formation of Civic Consciousness; Chapter Three: Polishing Barbarous Mores; II: The Changing Landscape of American Civic Life; Chapter Four: American Amnesia; Chapter Five: The Peer Bubble; Chapter Six: Voter Beware; III: On the Ends of Liberal Education; Chapter Seven: Majoring in Servitude; Chapter Eight: Education to What End-Vocation or Virtue?; Chapter Nine: "Reflection and Choice"; Afterword; Index
About the Editors and Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452284803321 |
Busch Elizabeth Kaufer
|
||
| Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy : Machiavelli to Tocqueville / / ed. by Steven Frankel, Martin D. Yaffe
| Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy : Machiavelli to Tocqueville / / ed. by Steven Frankel, Martin D. Yaffe |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | University Park, PA : , : Penn State University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina | 201/.72 |
| Soggetto topico | POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory |
| ISBN |
9780271087450
0271087455 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Machiavelli, Christianity, and Civil Religion -- 2. How Francis Bacon’s New Organon Co-opts Biblical Theology for His New Atlantis -- 3. Leviathan’s Reconquest of the Christian Person for the State -- 4. Will Wonders Never Cease? Spinoza’s Critique of Miracles -- 5. Liberalism and Christianity: Locke’s Use of the Bible in the Second Treatise -- 6. Montesquieu’s Machiavellian Account of Civil Religion -- 7. Montesquieu and Christianity in the American Project: The Moderate Spirit of Religious Liberty -- 8. Hume on Church Establishments: History, Moderation, and Liberty -- 9. Rousseau’s Civil Religion “Problem” -- 10. How the Founders Agreed About Religious Freedom but Disagreed About the Separation of Church and State -- 11. Tocqueville on Religion and Democratic Character: Equality, Mediocrity, and Greatness -- List of Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910984614503321 |
| University Park, PA : , : Penn State University Press, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
In search of humanity : essays in honor of Clifford Orwin / / edited by Andrea Radasanu
| In search of humanity : essays in honor of Clifford Orwin / / edited by Andrea Radasanu |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (563 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.01 |
| Soggetto topico |
Humanity
Humanity in literature Human behavior Human behavior in literature |
| ISBN |
1-4985-1324-7
0-7391-8417-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788146803321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
In search of humanity : essays in honor of Clifford Orwin / / edited by Andrea Radasanu
| In search of humanity : essays in honor of Clifford Orwin / / edited by Andrea Radasanu |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (563 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.01 |
| Soggetto topico |
Humanity
Humanity in literature Human behavior Human behavior in literature |
| ISBN |
1-4985-1324-7
0-7391-8417-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819575403321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||