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In Search of Humanity
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
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2015
Summary
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true north of the modern moral compass. Contributors to this volume consider various aspects of this virtue, by comparison with what came before and with attention to its development from early to late modernity, and up to the present.
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2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8416-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8417-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
545
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Edited Book
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
1 Civilization and the Gods in the Eumenides No access
2 Philosophy and “Humanity” No access
3 Preliminary Observations on the Treaties in Thucydides’ Work No access
4 Reflections on the Humanity (and Inhumanity) of Thucydides No access
5 The Spartan Alcibiades No access
6 The Tragedy of Demosthenes in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War No access
7 Moral Indignation, Magnanimity, and Philosophy in the Trial of the Armenian King No access
8 Humanity and Divinity in Xenophon’s Defense of Socrates No access
9 Education after Freedom No access
10 Martin Luther King, Augustine, and Civil Disobedience No access
11 “La Carità Propria” and the Uncertain Foundations of Unarmed Principalities No access
12 Machiavelli’s Humanity No access
13 “Choice of Loss” No access
14 “When Vice Makes Mercy” No access
15 “’Tis Charity to Show” No access
16 New Virtue for Masters of Nature No access
17 The Model of Human Nature and the Revision of Premises in Spinoza’s Ethics No access
18 Interpreting Honor Politically No access
19 Locke’s Compassion—and Rousseau’s No access
20 Rousseau’s Rome No access
21 Rousseau and the Case For and Against Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism No access
22 Hegel as Educator No access
23 Reason, Will, and the Image of Humanity No access
24 Is It Possible to Reconcile Reason and Revelation? No access
25 History, Technology, and Justice No access
26 “Gods of Vengeance and Compassion” No access
27 Character vs. Free Will No access
28 “More [Than] Human” No access
29 On the Uses and Abuses of the Notion of Sovereignty No access
30 Europe’s Democratic Odyssey No access
31 Humane Warfare No access
32 A Polemic for Pedagogy? No access
Index No access Pages 531 - 534
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 535 - 545
