Political Philosophy and the Issues of Politics

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This work, by one of the leading representatives of a powerful, humanistic tradition in political philosophy, consists of some twenty papers written over the past quarter-century. The ideas and arguments extending throughout the papers converge on a concrete political theme—the polity of the United States. The relations between public and private life and among the family, property, and modernity are here explored in the context of liberal commercial society. Consideration of economics, ideology, radicalism, alienation, and the moral bases of public policy compel the reader to think and to rethink. Cropsey's conclusions about the causes of modern society's self-dissatisfaction represent the latest stage in the development of a mind consistently and passionately devoted to a philosophical understanding of political life.
"Whether he is discussing Aristotle's theory of friendship, Plato's understanding of Socrates, or Rousseau's Emile, Cropsey's analyses are sensitive,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This work, by one of the leading representatives of a powerful, humanistic tradition in political philosophy, consists of some twenty papers written over the past quarter-century. The ideas and arguments extending throughout the papers converge on a concrete political theme—the polity of the United States. The relations between public and private life and among the family, property, and modernity are here explored in the context of liberal commercial society. Consideration of economics, ideology, radicalism, alienation, and the moral bases of public policy compel the reader to think and to rethink. Cropsey's conclusions about the causes of modern society's self-dissatisfaction represent the latest stage in the development of a mind consistently and passionately devoted to a philosophical understanding of political life.
"Whether he is discussing Aristotle's theory of friendship, Plato's understanding of Socrates, or Rousseau's Emile, Cropsey's analyses are sensitive, illuminating, and always scholarly."—Alan Wertheimer, Perspective
"Cropsey's discussion rests on a vast knowledge of the philosophic origins of modernity in Locke, Hume, and others and the ancient traditions with which they broke It possesses an inner unity and is a real mirror of a modest and penetrating mind, one of the rare original minds of the day."—Allan Bloom, University of Toronto Vissza