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Civilization and the gods in the Eumenides / Mark J. Lutz -- Philosophy and "humanity" : reflections on Thucydidean piety, justice, and necessity / Ryan Balot -- Preliminary observations on the treaties in Thucydides' work / Robert Howse and Noah Laurence -- Reflections on the humanity (and inhumanity) of Thucydides / S.N. Jaffe -- The Spartan Alcibiades : Brasidas and the prospect of regime change in Sparta in Thucydides' war / Michael Palmer -- The tragedy of Demosthenes in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War / Andrea Radasanu -- Moral indignation, magnanimity, and philosophy in the trial of the Armenian king / Lorraine Smith Pangle -- Humanity and divinity in Xenophon's defense of Socrates / Thomas L. Pangle -- Education after freedom / Michael S. Kochin -- Martin Luther King, Augustine, and civil disobedience / Timothy W. Burns -- "La carità propria" and the uncertain foundations of unarmed principalities / William B. Parsons Jr -- Machiavelli's humanity / Nathan Tarcov -- "Choice of loss" : the revaluation of Roman values in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / Paul A. Cantor -- "When vice makes mercy" : classical, Christian, and modern humanism in Shakespeare's Measure for measure / L. Joseph Hebert, Jr -- "Tis charity to show" : Shakespeare's kindly art in the Taming of the shrew / Diana J. Schaub -- New virtues for masters of nature / Henry Higuera -- The model of human nature and the revision of premises in Spinoza's ethics / Richard Velkley -- Interpreting honor politically / Ran Halévi -- Locke's compassion and Rousseau's / Steven Forde -- Rousseau's Rome : how the model of all free peoples governed themselves / Bryan-Paul Frost -- Rousseau and the case for and against cosmopolitan humanitarianism / Christopher Kelly -- Hegel as educator : reading the phenomenology of spirit as a pedagogical classic / Waller R. Newell -- Reason, will, and the image of humanity : the criticism of rationalism by Dostoevsky's Underground man and Nietzsche's Zarathustra / Jeffrey Metzger -- Is it possible to reconcile reason and revelation? : their mutual relations in the thought of Leo Strauss / Kenneth Hart Green -- History, technology, and justice : George Grant's discovery of Rousseau / Hugh Donald Forbes -- "Gods of vengeance and compassion" : the withering criticism of compassion in Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian / Brent Edwin Cusher -- Character vs. free will : Aristotle and Kant on moral responsibility / Arthur M. Melzer -- A Kantian critique of "public reason" / Susan Meld Shell -- On the uses and abuses of the notion of sovereignty / Miguel Morgado -- Europe's democratic odyssey / Marc F. Plattner -- Humane warfare : an ancient perspective on a modern dilemma / Linda R. Rabieh -- A polemic for pedagogy?, or, Socratic pedagogy and postmodern partisanship in liberal education / Michael Rosano. |
