Recovering Reason

Timothy Burns is an associate professor of government at Skidmore College.

• 1 Acknowledgements2 IntroductionPart 3 I: Pre-Socratic ThoughtChapter 4 1. Homer and the Foundation of Classical CivilizationChapter 5 2. Prometheus and Oedipus: The Arrogance and Limits of Art and ReasonChapter 6 3. What War DisclosesChapter 7 4. The Classical Rationalism of ThucydidesChapter 8 5. The Aristophanic QuestionChapter 9 6. On the Power of Rhetoric: Gorgias and the Philosophic Foundation of SophistryPart 10 Part II: Socratic RationalismChapter 11 7. Socrates and the SophistsChapter 12 8. Thrasymachus' BlushChapter 13 9. Civic or Human Virtue in Aristotle's PoliticsChapter 14 10. Happiness in the Perspective of PhilosophyChapter 15 11. The Problem of Providence in Maimonides' Guide of the PerplexedChapter 16 12. A Slingshot Recoils: The Critique of Philosophy in Halevi's KuzariPart 17 III: On Leo StraussChapter 18 13. Thinking Nietzsche Through and Strauss's Recovery of Classical Political PhilosophyChapter 19 14. John Toland and Leo Strauss on Esoteric WritingChapter 20 15. Did Plato Believe in his own Metaphysics? And Did Strauss?Chapter 21 16. Leo Strauss on Machiavelli and the Origins of ModernityPart 22 IV: Modern Political PhilosophyChapter 23 17. Aristotelian Kingship and Lockean PrerogativeChapter 24 18. "For Which Human Nature Can Never Be Too Grateful": Montesquieu as the Heir of ChristianityChapter 25 19. "They Flock Into Cities; Their Situation is Less Precarious": David Hume and the Intellectual Origins of the American FoundingChapter 26 20. Rousseau on the Philosophic Life Les rêveries du Promeneur SolitaireChapter 27 21. Schiller on Aesthetic Education: Radicalization by ReturnChapter 28 22. Stendhal and the Promise of Happiness: An Introduction to the Charterhouse of ParmaChapter 29 23. Tocqueville's Burke, or Story as HistoryPart 30 V: Contemporary Issues and political philosophyChapter 31 24. Corrupting or Edifying? Cato the Elder and Cicero on the Role of Philosophy in Roman Civic EducationChapter 32 25. Abstract Painting and the Rule of DoubtChapter 33 26. Kissinger and ThucydidesChapter 34 27. Charles Taylor as a Theorist of MulticulturalismRecognition/AuthenticityChapter 35 28. Neuroplasticity, Perfectibility, and Three Ideas of Nature36 Bibliography of the Published Work of Thomas L. Pangle37 Index38 About the Contributors

The best way to honor a great scholar is with more great scholarship. Over the last few decades, Thomas Pangle has been one of the most illuminating and prolific commentators on the history of political philosophy. As a teacher, he has educated several generations of wonderfully talented students. The discipline of political philosophy has been hugely enriched both by Pangle's own work, and by the work he has helped inspire in students and colleagues-as this excellent volume so powerfully testifies.