Classical Rationalism And The Politics Of Europe

Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527506862

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Classical Rationalism and the Politics of Europe by Ann Ward Pdf

Dramatic changes have occurred in Europe in the past quarter century. The fall of communism and the expansion of liberal democracy, together with the desire to project a new “Europa” that is united, peaceful and prosperous into the future, illustrate that political philosophy is what grounds European political discourse and identity. Thus, an understanding of Europe’s political past and potential future directs us to the question: What is political philosophy? An exploration of the question of political philosophy points us back to Socrates, widely regarded as the first political philosopher, or the first philosopher to make human beings central to philosophic inquiry. Scholars such as Thomas Pangle suggest that a revival of the study of Socratic political philosophy will revive serious consideration of the questions of justice or how one ought to live, and demonstrate that classical rationalism is the essential dialectical partner and interrogator of the political theology of Scripture/scripture(s). Classical rationalism in this context is understood as a necessary alternative to modern liberalism, inadequate to the task of taking questions of justice seriously as it insists on regarding all religious claims and understandings of virtue as private preferences rather than definitive of the public sphere, and contemporary postmodernism, which has abandoned rationalism altogether by rejecting any truth claims not understood as relative. This volume explores Socratic rationalism, the major alternatives to it in the history of political philosophy, the potential impact of returning to it in contemporary times, and related themes. It takes a multifaceted approach with contributions from scholars in the fields of philosophy and political science.

Author : Panos Koulermos
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015037321091

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20th Century European Rationalism by Panos Koulermos Pdf

Since its origins during the period of Enlightenment, Rationalism has evolved over the course of time, responding to changes in creative, intellectual and political thought. In this comprehensive study, the nature of twentieth century Rationalism is given detailed consideration as the progression of the movement is traced from the thirties through to Neo-Rationalism and the present day. The study is organised clearly into sections to facilitate understanding of the movement's developments this century. The work of all architects included in this book is presented in an extensive graphic and visual manner to bring forth the spirit and tradition of the Rationalist ethos. The work of architects no longer alive today has been redrawn with extreme care to illuminate the original concept and meaning of these projects.

Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547404569

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The Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe by William Edward Hartpole Lecky Pdf

This study describes the period of great changes in European history - the decline in the belief of magic and miracles and emerging of the new way of thinking which has brought the rise of religious persecution, the gradual secularization of politics and the rise of toleration and rationalism. Contents: Rationalism in Europe On the Declining Sense of the Miraculous Magic and Witchcraft On the Declining Sense of the Miraculous The Miracles of the Church Aesthetic, Scientific, and Moral Developments of Rationalism On Persecution The Antecedents of Persecution The Secularisation of Politics The Industrial History of Rationalism

Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547716211

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History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe (Vol.1&2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky Pdf

This study describes the period of great changes in European history - the decline in the belief of magic and miracles and emerging of the new way of thinking which has brought the rise of religious persecution, the gradual secularization of politics and the rise of toleration and rationalism. Contents: Rationalism in Europe On the Declining Sense of the Miraculous Magic and Witchcraft On the Declining Sense of the Miraculous The Miracles of the Church Aesthetic, Scientific, and Moral Developments of Rationalism On Persecution The Antecedents of Persecution The Secularisation of Politics The Industrial History of Rationalism

Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Rationalism
ISBN : OXFORD:600048205

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History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe by William Edward Hartpole Lecky Pdf

Author : James Greenaway
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781793611017

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Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society by James Greenaway Pdf

A life of liberty and responsibility does not just happen, but requires a particular kind of education, one that aims at both a growth of the human soul and an enrichment of political society in justice and the common good. This we call a liberal education. Forgetfulness of liberty is also a forgetfulness of the multi-dimensional nature of the human person, and a diminution of political life. Keeping in mind what can be lost when liberal education is lost, this volume makes the case for recovering what is perennially noble and good in the liberal arts, and why the liberal arts always have a role to play in human flourishing. Each of the authors herein focuses on the connection of three primary themes: human dignity, liberal education, and political society. Intentionally rooted in the hub that joins the three themes, each author seeks to unfold the contemporary significance of that hub. As a whole, the volume explores how the three themes are crucial to each other: how they illuminate each other, how they need each other, and how the loss of one jeopardizes the wellbeing of the others. In individual chapters, the authors engage various relevant aspects of liberal education. As a result, the volume is organized into three parts: Liberal Education and a Life Well Lived; Thinkers on Dignity and Education in History; Contemporary Topics in Dignity and Education. As education is increasingly channeled into an ever more narrow focus on technical specialization, and measured against professional success, students themselves face a maelstrom of campus politics and competing political orthodoxies. These are among the issues that tend to militate against the operative liberty of the student to think and to speak as a person. This edited collection is offered as an invitation to think again about the liberal arts in order to recover the meaning of education as the authentic pursuit of the good life or eudemonia.

Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000425802

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Polis, Nation, Global Community by Ann Ward Pdf

This book examines the basic tenets of nation, nationalism and citizenship. It explores the relevance of the nation-state to human freedom and flourishing, as well as the concept of citizenship that it implies, in contrast to that of the ancient polis and the "global community." The volume focusses on the shifting notions of various political concepts over time to present a systematic understanding of core concepts such as polis, nation and state from antiquity to the present. It includes contributions that analyze ancient and modern thought, and sections that address postmodern and contemporary thinkers, including Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, Weil, Grant and Manent. A comprehensive handbook to introductory politics, this book will be invaluable to students and teachers of political science, especially political theory, political philosophy, democracy, political participation and international relations theory.

Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000452501

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The Artistic Foundations of Nations and Citizens by Ann Ward Pdf

This book examines politics through the lens of art and literature. Through discussion on great works of visual art, literature, and cultural representations of political thought in the medieval, early modern, and American eras, it explores the relevance of the nation-state to human freedom and flourishing, as well as the concept of citizenship and statesmanship that it implies, in contrast to that of the ‘global community’. The essays in this volume focus on shifting notions of various core political concepts like citizenship, republicanism, and nationalism from antiquity to the present-day to provide a systematic understanding of their evolving histories through Western Art and literature. It highlights works such as the Bayeux Tapestry, Shakespeare’s Henry V, Henry VI, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twain’s Joan of Arc and Hermann’s Nichts als Gespenster, among several other canonical works of political interest. Further, it questions if we should now look beyond the nation-state to some form of tans-national, global community to pursue the human freedom desired by progressives, or look at smaller forms of community resembling the polis to pursue the friendship and nobility valued by the ancients. The volume will be invaluable to students and teachers of political science, especially political theory and philosophy, visual arts, and world literature.

Author : Janne Haaland Matlary
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0852440316

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When Might Becomes Human Right by Janne Haaland Matlary Pdf

Janne Haaland Mátlary has devoted her life to questions of ethics and politics.This preoccupation has become extraordinarily relevant to many of the issues that dominate the contemporary political agenda; particularly in Europe where the debate over relativism, human rights and majority tyranny has become a vital concern to very many of its citizens. Combining academic research with an active political life as a diplomat serving both her native Norway and the Holy See, Janne Haaland Mátlary is able to offer us profound insights into the importance of human dignity and human rights in current politics. This book is essential reading for all who are concerned with issues of rationality, law, human rights, politics and religious freedom in European democracy today. As an academic, studying political science, her work has concentrated on security and foreign policy. She makes a strong case that foundations for human rights can be found through human reason, specifically, through retrieving and reanimating the classical tradition of rationalism that was once the pride of western civilization . She builds her analysis of politics with far more promising materials than the instrumental rationality and the radically individualistic concept of the person that have prevented the human rights movement thus far from reaching its full potential. Mary Anne Glendon, Harvard University Janne Haaland Matláry is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science of the University of Oslo, Norway, and Senior Adjunct Researcher in Security Policy at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. She was State Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Deputy Foreign Minister) of Norway 1997-2000, representing the Christian Democratic Party in the Bondevik government. Her main academic fields are the European Union and international security policy. She has published very widely and played significant roles in a number of international and consultative bodies. In April 2007 she was awarded Il Premio San Benedetto. Her biographical narrative of conversion to the Catholic Church, Faith Through Reason, is also published by Gracewing.

Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793603784

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The Socratic Individual by Ann Ward Pdf

The author explores the recovery of Socratic philosophy in the political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Ward identifies the cause of the renewed interest in Socrates in Hegel’s call for the absorption of the individual within the modern, liberal state and the concomitant claim that Socratic skepticism should cease because history has reached its end and perfection. Recoiling from Hegel’s attempt to chain the individual within the “cave,” nineteenth century thinkers push back against his deification of the state. Yet, underlying Kierkegaard, Mill and Nietzsche’s turn to Socrates is their acceptance of Hegel’s critique of the liberal conception of the rights-bearing individual. Like Hegel, they agree that such an individual is an unworthy competitor to the state. In search of a noble individual to hold up against the state and counter the belief in the “end” of history, Kierkegaard, Mill and Nietzsche bring back and transform Socrates in significant ways. For Kierkegaard the Socratic philosopher in modern times is the person of faith, for Mill the public intellectual whose idiosyncratic identity arises from the freedom of speech, and for Nietzsche the Dionysian artist. Each model the beauty of individuality in our democratic age.

Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780898754407

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History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe by William Edward Hartpole Lecky Pdf

Author : Carol McNamara,Trevor Shelley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666900682

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Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America by Carol McNamara,Trevor Shelley Pdf

The purpose of this volume is to discuss the concept of citizenship—in terms of its origins, its meanings, and its contemporary place and relevance in American democracy, and within a global context. The authors in this collection wrestle with the connection of citizenship to major tensions between liberty and equality, dynamism and stability, and civic disagreement and social cohesion. The essays also raise fundamental questions about the relationship between citizenship and leadership, and invite further reflection on the features of citizenship and civic leadership under the American Constitution. Finally, this collection offers various suggestions about how to revitalize citizenship and civic leadership through an education that is conducive to a renewal of American civic practices and institutions.

Author : Patrick N. Cain,Stephen Patrick Sims,Stephen A. Block
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793621603

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Democracy and the History of Political Thought by Patrick N. Cain,Stephen Patrick Sims,Stephen A. Block Pdf

This volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history of political thought. Each author addresses a single thinker’s reflections on the virtues and defects of democracy and the relationship between democracy and other regimes. Together, these essays explore the tensions within the democratic way of life that arise from an attachment to equality, liberty, citizenship, law, and the divine. Above all, this work aims at recovering a more complex understanding of democracy, connecting the perennial questions of political philosophy to the perplexities and crises of modern democracy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9788855186117

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Crises (Staseis) and Changes (Metabolai) by Anonim Pdf

This book aims to build a solid and proper contribution to the contemporary global debate on the experience of democracy and its possibilities as the most effective mediator of a series of challenges, a debate that is necessarily rooted in the critical reassessment of its Greek cultural heritage. The book is articulated around the identification of a concrete problem: the need for studies that critically discuss Athenian democracy, seen as a daily problem and practice, based on its staseis (crises) and metabolai (changes), and whose solutions and strategies may still contribute to the reflection on the social, intellectual and ethical-political challenges of contemporary democracy.

Author : Hans-W Micklitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108424127

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The Politics of Justice in European Private Law by Hans-W Micklitz Pdf

Compares national concepts of social justice with the developing European concept of access justice.