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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colmo, Christopher A., 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023].
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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.