Leo Strauss on democracy, technology, and liberal education /

Liberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood the emergence of liberal democracy and what is necessary to sustain and elevate it, Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Edu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burns, Timothy, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Colección:SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss.
Temas:
Strauss, Leo.
Strauss, Leo
Democracy.
Liberalism.
Education, Humanistic.
Political science > Philosophy.
Free enterprise.
Libéralisme.
Éducation humaniste.
liberalism.
Free enterprise
Democracy
Education, Humanistic
Liberalism
Political science > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Modern Political Thought as Technological Thought
  • Technology and Democracy
  • Chapter One Democracy and Liberal Education
  • Contemporary Nihilists, Ancestral Traditions, and Liberal Education
  • Chapter Two An Aristocracy within a Democracy: "Liberal Education and Responsibility"
  • The Rise of Modern Science and the Evolution to Modern Democracy
  • Chapter Three "German Nihilism"
  • The Place of the Old Moral Reasoning
  • Moral Reasoning and Ancestral Traditions
  • Tradition and the Health of Liberal Democracy
  • Chapter Four "The Liberalism of Classical Political Philosophy"
  • Havelock's Liberalism
  • Disinterring Greek Liberalism: Aeschylus and Sophocles
  • Reconstructing the Anthropologists' Teaching: Protagoras and Republic
  • The Account of the Fragments of Antiphon
  • Chapter Five Concluding Reflections on Moral-Political Reasoning in Contemporary Liberal Democracy
  • Index.

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