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Recovering Reason by Timothy Burns, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Timothy Burns

Current price: $229.00
Recovering Reason by Timothy Burns, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Recovering Reason by Timothy Burns, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Recovering Reason by Timothy Burns, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Timothy Burns

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Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle is a collection of essays composed by students and friends of Thomas L. Pangle to honor his seminal work and outstanding guidance in the study of political philosophy. The contributors write in awareness that a loss of confidence in reason similar to the one we are witnessing today- when the desirability and possibility of guiding our lives by the enduring, normative truths that reason attempts to discover -had occurred at the time of Socrates, who realized that the existence of genuine limits to what is knowable by reason opened up the possibility that our world, instead of having the kind of intelligible necessities that science seeks to uncover, could be the work of mysterious, creative gods or god-as devoutly religious citizens claimed it to be. His grasp of this great difficulty led him and his students-ancient and medieval-to attempt to ground the life of reason by means of a pre-philosophic, preliminary investigation of political-moral questions. Modern political philosophers later attempted to ground the life of reason in a considerably different, "enlightening" way. These essays examine both of these attempts to answer the question of the right life for human beings, as those attempts are introduced and elaborated in the work of thinkers from Homer and Thucydides to Nietzsche and Charles Taylor. The volume is divided into five parts. The essays in Part I examine the moral-political problems through which Socrates came to ground the philosophic life as those problems first appeared in earlier, pre-Socratic writers. Part II explores those problems in their Platonic and Aristotelian presentations, and in the work of two medieval thinkers. Part III addresses the thought of Leo Strauss, the thinker upon whose work the recovery of both ancient and modern political philosophy in our day has been made possible. Part IV explicates the writings of modern political philosophers and thinkers with a view to uncovering their alternative approach | Recovering Reason by Timothy Burns, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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