Reason's inquisition : on doubtful ground /
Theory and practice, reason and revelation, ancients and moderns are the key themes running through the eighteen studies of the literature of political philosophy in Reason's Inquisition. Alfarabi is a pivotal figure, but the range is wide, from Plato and Thucydides to Shakespeare and Hobbes, e...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
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Table of Contents:
- Theory and practice : Alfarabi's Plato revisited
- The Platonism of Alfarabi
- Neoplatonism and Alfarabi's politics
- Beyond theory and practice : the natural and the voluntary in Alfarabi's Philosophy of Aristotle
- Plato's Phaedrus and the rhetoric of the human things
- Theory and practice in Maimonides' Guide of the perplexed
- East meets West : Alfarabi and Hobbes
- Reason and revelation in the thought of Leo Strauss
- A man's world : women in Macbeth
- Lucien Febvre and the right to unbelief
- Reasoning about Revelation
- History and Gnosis : Voegelin's reply to Bultmann
- On Voegelin's interpretation of political reality
- Thucydides and the political
- War and peace : the relevance of Aristotle
- Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
- Politics and education : Rousseau's Emile and the Reversal of Plato
- About subjectivity.