Political societies frequently regard philosophers as potential threats to morality and religion, and those who speak for politics often demand a defense of philosophy. This book will address philosophy as a mode of existence put into question.

Autorentext
Robert C. Bartlett, Boston College, USA Christopher Bruell, Boston College, USA Ronna Burger, Tulane University, USA Hasso Hofmann, Humboldt University, Germany Laurence Lampert, Indiana University, USA Ralph Lerner, University Of Chicago, USA J. Harvey Lomax, University Of Memphis, USA James H. Nichols, Claremont Mckenna College, USA Thomas L. Pangle, University Of Texas, USA Robert B. Pippin, University Of Chicago, USA Devin Stauffer, University Of Texas, USA Nathan Tarcov, University Of Chicago, USA

Inhalt

1. Sophistry as a Way of Life; Robert C. Bartlett 2. Aristotle on Theory and Practice; Christopher Bruell 3. Aristotle's Politics Book 7 on the Best Way of Life; Thomas L. Pangle 4. Inexhaustible Riches: Mining the Bible; J. Harvey Lomax 5. On the Philosophic Character of Tacitus' Imperial Political History and Science; James Nichols 6. Maimonides on Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Guide of the Perplexed I.2; Ronna Burger 7. Machiavelli in the Prince: His Way of Life in Question; Nathan Tarcov 8. Of Human Ends in Bacon's Essayes; Ralph Lerner 9. Hobbes's Natural Theology; Devin Stauffer 10. Rousseau's Happiness in Freedom; Hasso Hofmann 11. Heidegger on Nietzsche on Nihilism; Robert B. Pippin 12. How Benardete Read the Last Stage of Socrates' Philosophic Education; Laurence Lampert