Suchergebnisse

Platonic philia and political order / James M. Rhodes -- Taking friendship seriously : Aristotle on the place(s) of philia in human life / Stephen Salkever -- Cicero's distinctive voice on friendship : De amicitia and De re publica / Walter Nicgorski -- The luminous path of friendship : Augustine's account of friendship and political order / John von Heyking -- A companionship of caritas : friendship in St. Thomas Aquinas / Jeanne Heffernan Schindler -- Friendship in the civic order : a reformation absence / Thomas Heilke -- Plato and Montaigne : ancient and modern ideas of friendship / Timothy Fuller -- Hobbes on getting by with little help from friends / Travis D. Smith -- Social friendship in the founding era / George Carey -- It is not good for man to be alone : Tocqueville on friendship / Joshua Mitchell -- Zarathustra and his asinine friends : Nietzsche and taste as the groundless ground of friendship / Richard Avramenko -- Friendship, trust, and political order : a critical overview / Jürgen Gebhardt

The true form of governments : the constitutional movements of power / Tilo Schabert -- Modern boredom, the human element, and creative politics / David Tabachnick -- A political ontology of persons / Toivo Koivukoski -- Friendship as precondition and consequence of creativity in politics / John von Heyking -- Can politics be creative? Theory and empirical evidence / Thomas Heilke -- On Schabert's "creative person in politics" / Dan Avnon -- Breaking routine and adjusting anew : elections, persons, local politics / Alexander Thumfart -- Between wisdom and knowledge : the politics of creativity in a post-communist world / András Lánczi -- The primacy of persons? Why not? But a disenchanted one : a French sociologist visits Schabertpolis / Eirk Neveu

Foreword / by Wilfred McClay -- Introduction / Ronald Weed and John von Heyking -- The legacy of civil religion in the history of political philosophy -- God's for the city and beyond : civil religion in Plato's laws / V. Bradley Lewis -- Truth versus utility: the debate on civil religion in the Roman Empire of the third and fourth centuries / Matthias Riedl -- The humility of true religion : Augustine's critique of Roman civil religion / David J. Bobb -- Forgiving those not trespassing against us : Hobbes and the establishment of the nonsectarian state church / Travis D. Smith -- Civil religion as political technology in Bacon's new Atlantis / David C. Innes -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on civil religion : freedom of the individual, toleration, and the price of mass authenticity / Ronald Weed -- Alexis de Tocqueville on "civil religion" and the Catholic faith / Douglas Kries -- The enduring relevance of civil religion in North America -- Rational theology : Thomas Jefferson and the foundation of America's civil religion / Jeff Sikkenga -- Unsettling faith : the radicalization of the First Amendment and its consequences / Thomas F. Powers -- The personal is (not?) the political : the role of religion in the presidency of George W. Bush / Joseph M. Knippenberg -- Sacred words, fighting words : the Bible and national meaning in Canada, 1860-1900 / Preston Jones -- Civil religion and associational life under Canada's "ephemeral monster" : Canada's multi-headed constitution / John von Heyking

Eric Voegelin's Asian Political Thought brings together scholars from both Asia and the West to reflect upon the political philosopher's thought about China, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, and India, showing how Voegelin's approach can illuminate the region but also what are the possibilities that Asia offers in the twentieth-first century.