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Ralph Hancock

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History of Western Philosophy
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History of Western Philosophy
Value Theory
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  • Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics
    St. Augustine's Press. 2011.
    Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989. With new pref.
  •  22
    Acknowledgments
    with Peter Augustine Lawler, Thomas Hibbs, Daniel P. Maher, Samuel Goldman, James R. Stoner, Sara M. Henary, Lauren K. Hall, Marc D. Guerra, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Tobin L. Craig, Larry Arnhart, and Paul Seaton
    In Peter Lawler & Marc Guerra (eds.), The Science of Modern Virtue: On Descartes, Darwin, and Locke, Cornell University Press. pp. 317-318. 2013.
  •  16
    About the Contributors
    with Peter Augustine Lawler, Thomas Hibbs, Daniel P. Maher, Samuel Goldman, James R. Stoner, Sara M. Henary, Lauren K. Hall, Marc D. Guerra, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Tobin L. Craig, Larry Arnhart, and Paul Seaton
    In Peter Lawler & Marc Guerra (eds.), The Science of Modern Virtue: On Descartes, Darwin, and Locke, Cornell University Press. pp. 319-322. 2013.
  • Pierre Manent : between nature and history
    In Paul R. DeHart & Carson Holloway (eds.), Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith, Northern Illinois University Press. 2014.
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    Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics
    St. Augustine's Press. 1989.
    Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989. With new pref.
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    America, the West, and Liberal Education
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.
    A collection of eight essays centered around the question of the precise relationship between the intellectual and the moral political ends of Western liberal education, particularly in the United States. The authors seem to be in broad agreement with the views expresses in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind (included is an article by Bloom extolling the virtues of the classics) and, from different starting points criticize the growth of politicized post- modern education. Annotation…Read more
    A collection of eight essays centered around the question of the precise relationship between the intellectual and the moral political ends of Western liberal education, particularly in the United States. The authors seem to be in broad agreement with the views expresses in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind (included is an article by Bloom extolling the virtues of the classics) and, from different starting points criticize the growth of politicized post- modern education. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
    Social and Political PhilosophyPhilosophy of Education
  • Translator's Introduction
    In Pierre Manent (ed.), Natural law and human rights: toward a recovery of practical reason, University of Notre Dame Press. 2020.
    Natural Law Theory
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    The Legacy of the French Revolution
    with L. Gary Lambert
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1996.
    This work aims to clarify the distinctive character of the French Revolution by tracing the philosophical sources of its rhetoric and comparing it to that of the American Revolution.
    Social and Political Philosophy
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    10. The Mutual Sacrifice of Science and Virtue
    In Peter Lawler & Marc Guerra (eds.), The Science of Modern Virtue: On Descartes, Darwin, and Locke, Cornell University Press. pp. 183-187. 2013.
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    The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age (edited book)
    Rowman & Littlefield. 2010.
    In The Responsibility of Reason, Ralph C. Hancock undertakes no less than to answer the Heideggerian challenge.
    Government and Democracy
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    Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield (edited book)
    with John Gibbons, Nathan Tarcov, Jerry Weinberger, Paul A. Cantor, Mark Blitz, James W. Muller, Kenneth Weinstein, Clifford Orwin, Arthur Melzer, Susan Meld Shell, Peter Minowitz, James Stoner, Jeremy Rabkin, David F. Epstein, Charles R. Kesler, Glen E. Thurow, R. Shep Melnick, Jessica Korn, and Robert P. Kraynak
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.
    For forty years, Harvey Mansfield has been worth reading. Whether plumbing the depths of MachiavelliOs Discourses or explaining what was at stake in Bill ClintonOs impeachment, MansfieldOs work in political philosophy and political science has set the standard. In Educating the Prince, twenty-one of his students, themselves distinguished scholars, try to live up to that standard. Their essays offer penetrating analyses of Machiavellianism, liberalism, and America., all of them informed by Mansfi…Read more
    For forty years, Harvey Mansfield has been worth reading. Whether plumbing the depths of MachiavelliOs Discourses or explaining what was at stake in Bill ClintonOs impeachment, MansfieldOs work in political philosophy and political science has set the standard. In Educating the Prince, twenty-one of his students, themselves distinguished scholars, try to live up to that standard. Their essays offer penetrating analyses of Machiavellianism, liberalism, and America., all of them informed by MansfieldOs own work. The volume also includes a bibliography of MansfieldOs writings
    British Philosophy
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