Enlightening Revolutions Essays in Honor of

The essays collected in this volume make a serious, enlightened contribution to the history of political philosophy. While offering striking new interpretations of crucial texts and events in the history of the West, they illuminate fundamental questions of politics, religion, and philosophy.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

I. The Medieval Renaissance

1. The Moral Status of Teaching and Writing

3

(20)

Miriam Galston

2. Averroes on Law and Political Well-Being

23

(8)

Charles E. Butterworth

3. Prudence, Imagination, and Determination of Law in Alfarabi and Maimonides

31

(26)

Joshua Parens

4. Averroes, Dante and the Dawn of European Enlightenment

57

(20)

Joel L. Kraemer

II. The Modern Revolution

5. Law and Innovation in Machiavelli's Prince

77

(14)

Nathan Tarcov

6. Resistance to Punishment: Controversies Old and New

91

(36)

Thomas S. Schrock

7. The Right to Life and Human Dignity

127

(18)

Leon R. Kass

III. The Place of Philosophy in Modernity

8. Swift Sailing

145

(16)

Ryan Patrick Hanley

9. Montesquieu's Prelude: An Interpretation of Book I of The Spirit of Laws

161

(30)

Stuart D. Warner

10. Adam Smith on Natural Liberty and Moral Corruption: The Wisdom of Nature and Folly of Legislators?

191

(30)

Lauren Brubaker

IV. Equality and Greatness in Tocqueville and America

11. Who Is Publius? The Debate Over the Constitution and the American Revolution

221

(8)

Michael Zuckert

12. Benjamin Franklin's Biblical Parable on Toleration

229

(6)

Laurence Berns

13. Tocqueville as Politician: Revisiting the Revolution of 1789

235

(24)

Robert T. Gannett Jr.

14. Tocqueville's Understanding of "Conditions of Equality" and "Conditions of Inequality"

259

(22)

Gerald Stourzh

15. Democratic Greatness in the Founding

281

(8)

Harvey C. Mansfield

V. Learning from Antiquity and the Thought of Leo Strauss

16. Justice Overruled: The Ambition of Xenophon's Cyrus the Great

289

(20)

Robert Faulkner

17. Plato and Relativism

309

(10)

Christopher Bruell

18. Is There a Right to Live as We Please? (So Long as We Respect the Right of Others to Do the Same)

319

(16)

David Bolotin

19. Two Nations Were in Her Womb: Contemporary Liberal Democracy and the Political Teaching of the Bible

335

(20)

Hillel Fradkin

20. Leo Strauss in His Letters

355

(8)

Werner J. Dannhauser

21. How Strauss Became Strauss

363

(22)

Heinrich Meier

The Writings of Ralph Lerner

385

(6)

Index

391

(4)

About the Contributors

395

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