Svetozar Minkov is assistant professor of philosophy at Roosevelt University.

• 1 Part I: The Medieval RenaissanceChapter 2 The Moral Status of Teaching and WritingChapter 3 Averroes on Law and Political Well-BeingChapter 4 Prudence, Imagination, and Determination of Law in Alfarabi and MaimonidesChapter 5 Averroes, Dante and the Dawn of European Enlightenment6 Part II: The Modern RevolutionChapter 7 Law and Innovation in Machiavelli's PrinceChapter 8 Resistance to Punishment: Controversies Old and NewChapter 9 The Right to Life and Human Dignity10 Part III: The Place of Philosophy in ModernityChapter 10 Adam Smith on Natural Liberty and Moral Corruption: The Wisdom of Nature and Folly of Legislators?Chapter 11 Swift SailingChapter 12 Montesquieu's Prelude: An Interpretation of Book I of The Spirit of LawsChapter 14 Tocqueville's Understanding of "Conditions of Equality" and "Conditions of Inequality"14 Part IV: Equality and Greatness in Tocqueville and AmericaChapter 15 Who is Publius? The Debate Over the Constitution and the American RevolutionChapter 16 Benjamin Franklin's Biblical Parable on TolerationChapter 17 Tocqueville as Politician: Revisiting the Revolution of 1789Chapter 18 Is There a Right to Live as We Please? (So Long as We Respect the Right of Others to Do the Same)Chapter 19 Two Nations Were in Her Womb: Contemporary Liberal Democracy and the Political Teaching of the BibleChapter 19 Democratic Greatness in the Founding20 Part V. Learning from Antiquity and the Thought of Leo StraussChapter 21 Justice Overruled: The Ambition of Xenophon's Cyrus the GreatChapter 22 Plato and RelativismChapter 25 Leo Strauss in His LettersChapter 26 How Strauss Became StraussChapter 27 The Writings of Ralph Lerner

A powerful collection of essays—scholarly and humane, probing and elegant—that honors by imitating the great virtues of Ralph Lerner as a teacher and scholar.