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Leo Strauss’s UnSocratic Aristophanes?In Jeremy J. Mhire & Bryan-Paul Frost (eds.), The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic Wisdom, Suny Press. pp. 331-351. 2014.
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Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle (edited book)Lexington Books. 2010.Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle is a collection of essays composed by students and friends of Thomas L. Pangle to honor his seminal work and outstanding guidance in the study of political philosophy. These essays examine both Socrates' and modern political philosophers' attempts to answer the question of the right life for human beings, as those attempts are introduced and elaborated in the work of thinkers from Homer and Thucydides to Nietzsche and Charles Taylor
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On "classic natural right" in natural right and historyIn Timothy Burns (ed.), Brill's Companion to Leo Strauss' Writings on Classical Political Thought, Brill. 2015.
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Hobbes's kingdom of light: a study of the foundations of modern political philosophyUniversity of Chicago Press. 2018."Darkness from vain philosophy" -- Hobbes's natural philosophy -- Religion and theology I: "of religion" -- Religion and theology II: Hobbes's natural theology -- Religion and theology III: Hobbes's confrontation with the Bible -- Hobbes's political philosophy I: man and morality -- Hobbes's political philosophy II: the Hobbesian commonwealth -- Appendix: the engraved title page of Leviathan.
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17This text brings together for the first time two complete key works from classical antiquity on the politics of Athens: Plato's Menexenus and Pericles' funeral oration.
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35Book Review: Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics, by Arash Abizadeh (review)Political Theory 48 (3): 401-405. 2020.
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18Thrasymachus’ Attachment to Justice?Polis 26 (1): 1-10. 2009.Thrasymachus is one of the most infamous villains in Plato’s dialogues; but he is not as villainous as he appears to be. Thrasymachus’ attack on justice and his debunking definition of justice are guided by a complex set of concerns, including a desire to expose the fraud that he thinks rulers are perpetrating against the ruled. Thrasymachus thus shows a concern for justice even in his expression of an argument that is regarded as the classic sophistic critique of justice. Thrasymachus’ attachme…Read more
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1Plato’s Introduction to the Question of JusticeDissertation, Boston College. 1998.This dissertation is a study of the beginning of Plato's Republic--primarily Book One--which I argue is the heart of Plato's analysis of justice. Too often overlooked in favor of the more glamorous "city-in-speech" that Socrates constructs in the later parts of the Republic, the beginning of the Republic, I suggest, is in fact the essential foundation of the rest of the work. Because it offers the most thorough dialectical confrontation with the everyday opinions just men hold about justice, thi…Read more
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5Thrasymachus' Attachment To Justice?Polis 26 (1): 1-10. 2009.Thrasymachus is one of the most infamous villains in Plato's dialogues; but he is not as villainous as he appears to be. Thrasymachus' attack on justice and his debunking definition of justice are guided by a complex set of concerns, including a desire to expose the fraud that he thinks rulers are perpetrating against the ruled. Thrasymachus thus shows a concern for justice even in his expression of an argument that is regarded as the classic sophistic critique of justice. Thrasymachus' attachme…Read more
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66The Unity of Plato's 'Gorgias': Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic LifeCambridge University Press. 2006.Stauffer demonstrates the complex unity of Plato's Gorgias through a careful analysis of the dialogue's three main sections. This includes Socrates' famous argumentative duel with Callicles, a passionate critic of justice and philosophy, showing how the seemingly disparate themes of rhetoric, justice and the philosophic life are woven together into a coherent whole. His interpretation of the Gorgias sheds new light on Plato's thought, showing that Plato and Socrates had a more favourable view of…Read more
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Leo Strauss's "On the basis of Hobbes's political philosophy"In Rafael Major (ed.), Leo Strauss's defense of the philosophic life: reading "What is political philosophy?", University of Chicago Press. 2013.
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