Republics Ancient and Modern, Band 2

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UNC Press Books, 1994 - 404 Seiten
Volume I: Where social scientists and many ancient historians tend to follow Max Weber or Karl Marx in asserting the centrality of status or class, Rahe's depiction of the illiberal, martial republics of classical Hellas vindicates Aristotle's insistence on the determinative influence of the political regime and brings back to life a world in which virtue is pursued as an end, politics is given primacy, and socioeconomic concerns are subordinated to grand political ambition. Volume II: Where many intellectual historians discern a revival of the classical spirit in the political speculation of the age stretching from Machiavelli to Adam Smith, Rahe brings to light a self-conscious repudiation of the theory and practice of ancient self-government and an inclination to restrict the scope of politics, to place greater reliance on institutions than on virtuous restraint, and to give free rein to the human's capacities as a tool-making animal. Volume III: Where students of the American founding are inclined to dispute whether the Revolution was liberal, republican, or merely confused, Rahe demonstrates that the American regime embodies an uneasy, fragile, and carefully worked-out compromise between the enlightened despotism espoused by Thomas Hobbes and the classical republicanism defended by Pericles and Demosthenes. -- Amazon.com.
 

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Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xvii
An Ancient Science of Politics
3
The Primacy of Politics in Classical Greece
14
Opinions Passions and Interests
41
The Political Economy of Hellas
66
Paideia The Preparation for Battle
91
The Spartan Regimen
122
The Structure of Politics in Classical Sparta
149
Athens Illiberal Democracy
172
Fides Quaerens Intellectum
205
Notes
217
Index
349
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Paul A. Rahe is professor of history at the University of Tulsa.

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