Will Morrisey

“Manners and Morals”: Table of Contents

November 1, 2018 by Will Morrisey

NOTE: The “Contents” section of the site menu list all articles, divided into six categories (“Bible Notes,” “Philosophers,” “American Politics,” “Nations,” “Manners and Morals,” and “Remembrances”). The articles are arranged in the chronological order of their posting. This Table of Contents lists articles in the “Manners and Morals” section in the order in which they may be read as if they were chapters in a book.

1. Frost and Oliver: Poets of Nature

Robert Frost: “Mending Wall.”
Mary Oliver: “Writing Poems.”

2. “Algeny”

Jeremy Rifkin: Algeny (1983).

3. Seneca: Epistle 88: “On Liberal and Vocational Studies.” Richard Mott Gummere translation. (1920).

4. Latini’s Treasure: What a Gentleman Should Know About Nature

Brunetto Latini: The Book of the Treasure. Book I: “The Origin of All Things.” Paul Barrette and Spurgeon Baldwin translation. (1993).

5. Latini’s Treasure: What a Gentleman Should Know About Morality

Brunetto Latini: The Book of the Treasure. Book II: “The Second Book Speaks of Virtues and Vices.” Paul Barrette and Spurgeon Baldwin translation. (1993).

6. Latini’s Treasure: What a Gentleman Should Know About Politics

Brunetto Latini: The Book of the Treasure. Book III: “Instructions Concerning Cities of Various Types and Good Speaking in Government.” Paul Barrette and Spurgeon Baldwin translation. (1993).

7. Is the Decline of Civility the Refutation of Montaigne?

Ann Hartle: What Happened to Civility: The Promise and Failure of Montaigne’s Modern Project (2022).

8. What Shakespeare Means to Say, When He Says, “As You Like It”

William Shakespeare: As You Like It.

9. Gentlemen and Gentlemanliness According to Shakespeare

William Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona.

10. Royal Dreaming

William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

11. Is All Well That Ends Well?

William Shakespeare: All’s Well That Ends Well.

12. Comic Errors, Legal Slapstick

William Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors.

13. What’s So Funny About the Law?

William Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors. Lecture delivered for the Sixth Annual Will’n in Weslaco Festival, South Texas College, Weslaco, Texas, April 8, 2025.

14. Taming Our Shrewishness

William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew.

15. Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night.

16. Geopolitics of Love

William Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost.

17. The Wisest Beholder

William Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale.

18. Shakespearean Philosophy?

K. J. Spalding: The Philosophy of Shakespeare (1953).

19. The Roman Cato with the Soul of Washington

Joseph Addison: Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays. Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, editors. (2004).

20. Sade: Laclos for the Lackluster

Maurice Lever: Sade (1993).

21. Young Werther’s Wrongly Ordered Soul

Johann Wolfgang Goethe: The Sufferings of Young Werther. Stanley Corngold translation (2013).

22. Religious Toleration Among the Aristocrats? Chateaubriand’s Thought Experiment.

François-René de Chateaubriand: The Adventures of the Last Abencerraje. A. S. Kline translation (2011).

23. Tocqueville on the Moral Effects of Public Charity

Alexis de Tocqueville: Memoir on Pauperism and Other Writings: Poverty, Public Welfare, and Inequality. Christine Dunn Henderson translation (2021).

24. Sentimental Individualism

Richard Brautigan: So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away (1983).

Richard Sennett: The Frog Who Dared to Croak (1983).

25. “The Wizard of Oz,” or, Platonism for the People

26. “Gone With the Wind,” Begone

27. An Age of Inflation

28. Philip Gilbert Hamerton: Man of Letters, Man of Art

Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography 1834-1858. (1896).

Eugénie Gindriez Hamerton: A Memoir by His Wife. (1896).

John Gross: The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: A Study of the Idiosyncratic and the Humane in Modern Literature. (1969).

29. The Life of the Mind as a Way of Life

Philip Gilbert Hamerton: The Intellectual Life. (1877).

30. The “Two Cities” Viewed from Poland

Adam Zagajewski: Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination. Lillian Vallee translation. (2002).

31. Why Ardor?

Adam Zagajewski: A Defense of Ardor. Claire Cavanaugh translation. (2004).

32. Teaching as Distinct from Educating

Jacques Barzun: Teacher in America. (1945).

33. Pedagogy of the (Would-Be?) Oppressors

Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Myram Bergman Ramos translation. (1968).

34. How Bloom Did It: Rhetoric and Principle in The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom: The Closing of the American Mind (1987).

35. The Intellectual Life and the Social Life: Imperfect Together

Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals and Society (2009).

36. Sociology, That Societal Problem

Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss: Primitive Classification. Rodney Needham translation (1967). Originally published in 1903.

37. Liberal Education, That Vexed Thing

John Agresto: The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do About It. (2022).

38. Oedipus’ Self-Deception

39. Fatherhood and Friendship in the Modern Regime

Jean Dutourd: The Springtime of Life. Denver and Helen Lindley translation. (1974).

40. Politics and Romance: Hawthorne’s Blithedale

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance.

41. Vaunting Guardians of the Marxist Revolution

42. The Goodness of Banality

43. Peace-Seeking in the Western Tradition

James Turner Johnson: The Quest for Peace: Three Traditions in Western Cultural History (1987).

44. The Holocaust Reconsidered

Tzetan Todorov: Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps. (1996).

45. Can the Use of Nuclear Weapons Be Moral?

Joseph P. Martino: A Fighting Chance: The Moral Use of Nuclear Weapons (1988).

46. Malraux and the “Farfelu”

André Malraux: The Kingdom of Farfelu with Paper Moons. W. B. Keckler translation. New York: Fugue State Press, 2005.

Georges Lemaitre: From Cubism to Surrealism in French Literature. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1978 (1947).

André Vandegans: La Jeunesse Littéraire d’André Malraux: Essai Sur L’Inspiration Farfelue. Abbeville: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1964.

Domnica Radulesca: André Malraux: The “Farfelu” as Expression of the Feminine and the Erotic. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.

47. Malraux and De Gaulle: Can Democracy Be Cultural?

48. Malraux and ‘Diversity’

Claude Tannery: Malraux, The Absolute Agnostic (1991).

49. Literary ‘Theory’ Refuted

Raymond Tallis: In Defence of Realism (1988).

50. Leftist Lit-Crit, Revised

Patrick Holm Hogan: The Politics of Interpretation (1990).

51. How Not to Edit a Collection of Essays

John K. Roth and Robert C. Whittemore, eds.: Ideology and the American Experience (1988).

52. What Is the Point of Studying Literature?

John Guillory: Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study. Part One. (2022).

53. Undertaking Literary Study

John Guillory: Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study. Part Two. (2022).

54. Does Music Mean Anything?

Peter Kalkavage: Music and the Idea of a World. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2024.

55. Soul Music

Robert R. Reilly (with Jens Laurson): Surprised by Beauty: A Listener’s Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2016.

56. How to Be a Sensible Tourist: Edith Wharton in the Mediterranean

Edith Wharton: The Cruise of the Venadis (2004).

57. The Spirit of the (Democratic) Laws

Dominique Schnapper: The Democratic Spirit of Law (2016).

58. What Is a ‘Network’?

Niall Ferguson: The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, From the Freemasons to Facebook (2017).

59. Epidemic of Fear

Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Virus in the Age of Madness (2020).

60. The Crisis of Islamic Civilization

Ali A. Allawi: The Crisis of Islamic Civilization (2009).

“Philosophers”: Table of Contents

October 31, 2018 by Will Morrisey

NOTE: The “Contents” section of the site menu lists all articles, divided into six categories (“Bible Notes,” “Philosophers,” “American Politics,” “Nations,” “Manners and Morals,” and “Remembrances”). The articles are arranged in the chronological order of their posting. This Table of Contents lists the articles in the “Philosophers” section in the order in which they may be read as if they were chapters in a book.

PHILOSOPHERS

1. Where Does Political Life Come From?

Pierre Clastres: Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology (1988).

2. The Nature of Politics

Mark Blitz: Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena (2021).

3. ‘Regime’ Defined

Clifford Angell Bates: the Centrality of the Regime in Political Science (2016).

4. Benardete on the Odyssey

Seth Benardete: The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey (1997).

5. Philosophy, A Way of Life

Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault. (1995).

6. Laurence Lampert: The Beijing Lectures: Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche: Philosophy and Its Poetry. Lecture III: “Socrates’ Philosophic Poetry”; Lecture IV: “Socrates Becomes Socrates.” Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2024.

7. Plato—Short, Sweet, and Aporetic

Thomas L. Pangle, ed.: The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Dialogues (1987).

8. Why Philosophy? Socrates’ End

9. Socrates’ Trial, Misjudged

I. F. Stone: The Trial of Socrates (1988).

10. Plato’s Phaedo, I

Plato: Phaedo. David Gallup translation. (1985).

Kenneth Dorter: Plato’s Phaedo: An Interpretation (1982).

11. Plato’s Phaedo, II

Ronna Burger: The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth (1984).

12. Plato’s Phaedrus

Plato: Phaedrus. James H. Nichols, Jr., translation. (1998).

Ronna Burger: Plato’s “Phaedrus”: A Defense of the Philosophic Art of Writing (1980).

Charles Griswold: Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Phaedrus (1986).

13. Plato’s Gorgias

Plato: Gorgias. James H. Nichols translation. (1998).

Devin Stauffer: The Unity of Plato’s Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life. (2006).

14. Plato’s Gorgias: The Recovery of Socratic Virtue

Nalin Ranasinghe: Socrates in the Underworld: On Plato’s Gorgias (2009).

15. Socrates and the Sophist

Plato: Greater Hippias. Harold N. Foster translation. (1967).

Catherine H. Zuckert: Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues. (2009). Chapter 4, section iv: “The Sophist’s Inability to Say What Is Noble.”

16. Alcibiades

Plato and Aeschines: Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts. David M. Johnson translation. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2003.

André Archie: Politics in Socrates’ Alcibiades: A Philosophical Account of Plato’s Dialogue Alcibiades Major. Dordrecht: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

17. Benardete on Plato’s Philebus

Seth Benardete: Tragedy and Comedy of Life (1993).

18. Teaching Virtue?

Plato: Meno. George Anastaplo and Laurence Berns translation. (2004).

Jacob Klein: A Commentary on Plato’s Meno. (1965).

19. Fifteen Truths and a Noble Lie

Plato: Republic. Allan Bloom translation. (1987).

20. The Philosopher-King: A Contradiction in Terms?

Plato: Republic. Allan Bloom translation. (1987).

21. After Philosophy: Socrates Interruptus

Plato: Republic. Allan Bloom translation. (1987).

22. Plato’s Republic

John F. Wilson: The Politics of Moderation (1984).

23. Socrates versus Athens

Mary P. Nichols: Socrates and the Political Community: An Ancient Debate (1987).

24. Socrates in the City

Mary P. Nichols: Socrates and the Political Community: An Ancient Debate (1987).

25. Thirty-Nine Reasons for Reading Benardete on Plato’s Republic

Seth Benardete: Socrates’ Second Sailing: On Plato’s Republic (1989).

26. Plato’s Protagoras

Patrick J. Coby: Socrates and the Sophistic Enlightenment: A Commentary on Plato’s Commentary (1987).

27. Defending Philosophy in Renaissance Italy: Ficino’s Metamorphic Retrieval of Plato’s Symposium

Marsilio Ficino: Commentary on Plato’s Symposium on Love (1985).

28. Plato’s Politic Practice: Plato’s “Letters,” I-IV

Ariel Helfer, editor and translator: Plato’s Letters: The Political Challenge of the Philosophic Life. (2023).

29. What Is Politic About Platonic Political Philosophy? Plato’s “Letters,” V-XIII

Ariel Helfer, editor and translator: Plato’s Letters: The Political Challenge of the Philosophic Life (2023).

30. Aristotelian Physics

David Bolotin: An Approach to Aristotle’s Physics: With Particular Attention to the Role of His Manner of Writing. (1997).

31. Moderation, All the Way Down

Stephen G. Salkever: Finding the Mean: Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy (1990).

Aristotle: De Anima. C. D. C. Reeves translation. (2017).

Thomas Aquinas: Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima. Kenholm Foster and Silvester Humphries translation. (1994).

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Robert C. Bartlett and Susan Collins translation. (2011).

Aristotle: Politics. Carnes Lord translation. (2013).

32. Aristotle’s Graceful Ethics

Mary P. Nichols: Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human: Piety and Politics in the “Nicomachean Ethics.” (2023).

33. Learning from Aristotle

Mary P. Nichols: Citizens and Statesmen: A Study of Aristotle’s Politics (1996).

Clifford Angell Bates: Aristotle’s “Best Regime”: Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law (2003).

Susan Collins: Aristotle and the Recovery of Statesmanship (2006).

34. What Good Is Democracy?

Delba Winthrop: Aristotle and Political Science (2019).

35. Aristotle’s Rhetoric

Aristotle: Rhetoric. Joe Sachs translation. (1988).

Larry Arnhart: Aristotle on Political Reasoning: A Commentary on the “Rhetoric” (1981).

36. Aristotle on Rhetoric

Aristotle: On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. George A. Kennedy translation. (1991).

Aristotle: Rhetoric. Joe Sachs translation. (1991).

Larry Arnhart: Aristotle on Political Reasoning: A Commentary on the “Rhetoric” (1981).

37. Averroës’ Commentaries on Aristotle

Charles E. Butterworth, ed.: Averroës’ Three Short Commentaries on Aristotle’s “Topics,” “Rhetoric,” and “Poetics.” (1977).

38. Aristotle on Education

Carnes Lord: Education and Culture in the Political Thought of Aristotle. (1982).

39. Aristotle and “The Moderns”

Aristide Tessitore, ed.: Aristotle and Modern Politics: The Persistence of Political Philosophy (2002).

40. Thucydides and Political Liberty

Mary P. Nichols: Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom (2015).

41. Socratic Half-Lives: How Philosophic Were the Philosophers of the Schools”

Diogenes Laertius: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (1959).

42: Seneca: The Governance of Anger

Seneca: Moral Essays. John W. Basore translation. (1958).

43. Seneca on Anger: A Second Look

Seneca: “To Novatus on Anger.” In Moral and Political Essays. John M. Cooper and J.F. Procopé translation. (1995).

44. Seneca on Philosophy and the Liberal Arts

Seneca: Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales. Richard M. Gummere translation. (1961).

45. Natural Rights and Political Philosophy

Ann Ward and Lee Ward, eds.: Natural Rights and Political Philosophy (2013).

46. Ciceronian Ethics

Marcus Tullius Cicero: On Obligations. P. G. Walsh translation. (2008).

47. Cicero’s Defense of Politics

Marcus Tullius Cicero: On the Republic and On the Laws. David Fott translation. (2014).

48. Recovering Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero: On the Republic and On the Laws. David Fott translation. (2014).

Timothy W. Caspar: Recovering the Ancient View of the Founding: A Commentary on Cicero’s De Legibus. (2011).

49. Those Incoherent Philosophers

Abū Hāmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Tusi al-Ghazāli: The Incoherence of the Philosophers. Michael E. Marmura translation. (2014).

50. Who Is the Teacher?

Augustine of Hippo: The Teacher: A Dialogue between Augustine and his son Adeodatus. In Augustine: Earlier Writings. Edited and translated by John H. S. Burleigh. (1953).

51. Aquinas on Teachers and Teaching

Thomas Aquinas: On the Teacher, Disputed Question on Truth. Question 11, Articles 1 and 2 of Questiones Disputatae de Veritate. Ralph McInerny translation (1998).

52. Taught by an Angel? Aquinas on the Hierarchical Character of Christian Education

Thomas Aquinas: On the Teacher, Disputed Questions on Truth. Question 11, Articles 3 and 4 of Questiones Disputatae de Veritate. Ralph McInerny translation (1998).

53. Dante on Monarchy

Dante Alighieri: Monarchy. Prue Shaw translation (1998).

54. Dante’s Heterodoxy

Ernest L. Fortin: Dissidence et Philosophie au Moyen Age (1981).

55. The Political Spirit

Catherine H. Zuckert, ed.: Understanding the Political Spirit: Philosophical Investigations from Socrates to Nietzsche. (1988).

56. Machiavelli in Florence

Miles J. Unger: Machiavelli: A Biography. (2011).

Heinrich Meier: “The Renewal and the Challenge of Revealed Religion: On the Intention of Leo Strauss’s Thoughts on Machiavelli.” In Political Philosophy and Revealed Religion. Robert Berman translation. (2017).

57. Is Machiavelli Machiavellian”

Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince. Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. translation. (1985).

Leo Strauss: Thoughts on Machiavelli (1969).

58. Flattery and Philosophy

Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince. Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. translation. (1985).

59. What Is “Effectual Truth”?

Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.: Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth: Creating the Modern World (2023).

60. What Is the Executive Power?

Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.: Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power (1989).

61. Mansfield on Machiavelli on Livy

Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.: Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders (1989).

62. The Dialogue between Machiavelli and Shakespeare

Michael Platt: Mighty Opposites: Machiavelli and Shakespeare Match Wits. (2022).

63. Machiavelli Today?

Carnes Lord: The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now (2003).

64. Bodin’s Secrets.

Jean Bodin: Colloquium of the Seven about the Secrets of the Sublime. Marion Leathers Daniels Kuntz translation. (1975).

65. Mr. Nice Guy: On the First Book of Montaigne’s Essays

66. Montaigne Concludes His Argument: The Essays, Book Three

67. Montaigne’s Politics

Biancamaria Fontana: Montaigne’s Politics: Authority and Governance in the “Essais” (2008).

68. Montaigne’s Project

Pierre Manent: Montaigne: Life Without Law. Paul Seaton translation. (2014).

69. Taming Our Shrewishness

William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew.

70. Shakespeare and His Roman Plays

Paul A. Cantor: Shakespeare’s Rome: Republic and Empire (1976).

Michael Platt: Rome and Romans According to Shakespeare (1983).

Jan H. Blits: The End of the Ancient Republic: Essays on Julius Caesar (1982).

71. The Philosophy of Hamlet’s Tragicall Historie

William Shakespeare: Hamlet.

72. Shakespearean Philosophy?

K.J. Spalding: The Philosophy of Shakespeare (1953).

73. The “New Atlantis”: Utopia or Dystopia?

Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis.

Kimberly Hurd Hale: Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis in the Foundation of Modern Political Thought. (2013).

74. Liberalism and Reason

J. E. Parsons, Jr.: Essays in Political Philosophy (1982).

75. The Character of Modern Republicanism

Ralph Lerner: Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of the Enlightenment (1994).

Thomas L. Pangle: The Spirit of Modern Republicanism (1988).

Lorraine Smith Pangle and Thomas L. Pangle: The Ennobling of Democracy (1991).

Michael Zuckert: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism (1994).

76. Political Authority: Resistance and Obedience, Socrates and Hobbes.

77. Hobbes on “The Long Parliament”

Thomas Hobbes: Behemoth, or the Long Parliament. (1990 edition).

78. Locke Questions the Law of Nature

John Locke: Questions Concerning the Law of Nature (1990 edition).

79. Locke on the Moral and Political Implications of Modern Science

Steven Forde: Locke, Science, and Politics (2013).

80. Spinoza and Modern Liberalism

Douglas J. Den Uyl: Power, State, and Freedom: An Interpretation of Spinoza’s Political Philosophy (1983).

81. Montesquieu’s Erotic Liberalism

Diana J. Schaub: Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (1995).

82. What Is Vico Trying to Accomplish?

Giambattista Vico: Principles of the New Science of Giambattista Vico Concerning the Common Nature or Nations. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch translation. Book I. (1994).

83. Seeking Wisdom: Vico’s Philology

Giambattista Vico: Principles of the New Science of Giambattista Vico Concerning the Common Nature or Nations. Book II: “Poetic Wisdom.”

84. Giambattista Vico: Principles of the New Science of Giambattista Vico Concerning the Common Nature or Nations. Books III, IV, and V.

85. Adam Smith, Moralist

Richard F. Teichgraeber, III: “Free Trade” and Moral Philosophy: Rethinking the Sources of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1987).

86. Chastellux on “Public Happiness” in the Ancient World

François Jean de Beauvoir, Marquis de Chastellux: Agriculture and Population: The Truest Proofs of the Welfare of the People. Volume I. (1792).

87. Chastellux on “Public Happiness” in the Modern World: Defense of Enlightenment

François Jean de Beauvoir, Marquis de Chastellux: Agriculture and Population: The Truest Proofs of the Welfare of the People. Volume II. (1792).

88. Education for Kingship: Eros Rightly Understood

François de Selignac de la Mothe-Fénelon: Telemachus, Son of Ulysses. Book I-VI.

89. Education for Kingship: Founding the Best Regime

François de Selignac de la Mothe-Fénelon: Telemachus, Son of Ulysses. Books VII-XI.

90. Telemachus at War, Preparing for Peace

François de Selignac de la Mothe-Fénelon: Telemachus, Son of Ulysses. Books XII-XVIII.

91. Discontented Moderns

92. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men. In Victory Gourevitch, ed.: Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings. (1997)

93. Inequality, That Vexed Question

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse which won the Prize of the Academy of Dijon in the Year 1750.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men.

Marc F. Plattner: Rousseau’s State of Nature (1979).

Walter Scheidel: The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twentieth Century (2017).

94. Rousseau’s Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract.

Hilail Gildin: Rousseau’s Social Contract: The Design of the Argument (1983).

95. Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile or, On Education. Allan Bloom translation (1979).

96. Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: Early Childhood

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile or, On Education, Book II.

97. Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: The Mature Child

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile or, On Education, Book III.

98. Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: Sexuality and Compassion

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile or, On Education, Book IV.

99. Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: The Savoyard Vicar

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile or, On Education, Book IV.

100. Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: Emile in Civil Society

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile or, On Education, Book IV.

101. Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: The Wisdom of Taste

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile or, On Education, Book V.

102. Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: Sophie

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile or, On Education, Book V.

103. Some Notes Concerning Rousseau’s Thoughts on Education: Comparative Politics and Natural Right within Civil Society

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile or, On Education, Book V.

104. Rousseau’s Confessions

Ann Hartle: The Modern Self in Rousseau’s Confessions: A Reply to St. Augustine (1986).

105. Rousseau’s Solitary Walker

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Charles E. Butterworth translation. (1979).

106. Rousseau: Nature or History?

Asher Horowitz: Rousseau: Nature and History (1987).

107. Is Kant a Historicist?

H.S. Reis, ed.: Kant: Political Writings. (1991).

Immanuel Kant: “Idea for a Univeral History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose.”

_____. “The Contest of Faculties: A Renewed Attempt to Answer the Question: ‘Is the Human Race Continually Improving?'”

_____. “Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History.

108. Perpetual Peace

Immanuel Kant: Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1991).

109. Chateaubriand and Political Philosophy

François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand: Essai Politique, Historique, et Morale, sur les Révolutions Anciennes et Modernes considerées dans leurs Rapports avec la Révolutions Française de nos Jours (1797).

110. Chateaubriand’s Critique of Rousseau’s State of Nature

François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand: Atala/René. Irving Putter translation. (1997).

111. Hegel: Philosophy Historicized

112. Hegel’s “Philosophy of History”: Introduction

G.W.F. Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Introduction

113. Hegel’s “Philosophy of History”: The Oriental World

G.W.F. Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of History,Part One.

114. Hegel’s “Philosophy of History”: The Greek World

G.W.F Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Part Two.

115. Hegel’s “Philosophy of History”: The Roman World

G.W.F. Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of History, The Germanic World.

116. Strauss’s Critique of Hegel

Leo Strauss: On Hegel (2019).

117. Historicity and Reason: Two Studies

Richard J. Bernstein: Beyond Subjectivism and Relativism (1983).

Stanley Rosen: G. W. F. Hegel: An Introduction to the Science of Wisdom (1974).

118. Misunderstanding Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop translation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

119. How to Read Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the French Revolution

Alexis de Tocqueville: L’Ancient Regime et la Révolution (n.d.)

Alexis de Tocqueville: The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Arthur Goldhammer translation. (2011).

120. Tocqueville Companion

Cheryl B. Welch, ed.: The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville (2006).

121. Tocqueville the Mediator

Sheldon S. Wolin: Tocqueville Between Two Worlds (2000).

122. Tocqueville on Liberty and Democracy

Michael Hereth: Alexis de Tocqueville: Threats of Freedom in America (1986).

123. Mill’s Liberalism

Bernard Semmel: John Stuart Mill and the Pursuit of Virtue (1984).

124. Emerson: Intellectual or Philosopher?

125. Melville’s Billy Budd

Thomas J. Scorza: In the Time Before Steamships: Billy Budd, the Limits of Politics, and Modernity (1980).

126. Feuerbach’s Materialism

Ludwig Feuerbach: Lectures on the Essence of Religion (1967) [1846].

Ludwig Feuerbach: Principles of the Philosophy of the Future. (1986) [1843].

127. Marxism: Where Does It Go Wrong?

128. Political Philosophy in Beijing, III: A Consideration of Nietzsche.

Laurence Lampert: Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche. Lecture 5: “Nietzsche Becomes Nietzsche”; Lecture 6: “Nietzsche’s Philosophic Poetry.” (2024)

129. Sorel’s Valorization of Violence

Georges Sorel: Reflections on Violence. T. E. Hulme translation. (1967). [1908].

130. Dewey: Growth and Its Problems

131. Dewey’s Defense of “Liberalism”

John Dewey: Liberalism and Social Action (1935).

132. The Effects of the Philosophy of Freedom on Modern Tyranny

Waller R. Newell: Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger. Chapters 1-2. (2022).

133. The Critique of Rationalism in the Philosophy of Freedom.

Waller R. Newell: Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger. Chapters 3-4. (2022).

134. Heidegger’s Consequences

Waller R. Newell: Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger. Chapter 5. (2022).

Michael Millerman: Beginning with Heidegger: Strauss, Rorty, Derrida, Dugin, and the Philosophic Constitution of the Political. (2020).

135. Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger

Timothy W. Burns: Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education. (

136. Voegelin, Hitler, and the Germans

Eric Voegelin: Hitler and the Germans (1999).

137. What Has Wittgenstein to Do with Political Philosophy?

John W. Danford: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy: A Reexamination of the Foundations of Social Science (1978).

138. Liberal Education at Mid-Century

Mark Van Doren: Liberal Education (1943).

139. Benda’s Dubious “Clerks”

Julien Benda: The Betrayal of the Clerks. Richard Aldington translation. (1959 edition).

140. Benda “Buried Alive”

Julien Benda: Exercise d’un Enterré Vif (1946).

141. De Jouvenel’s Conservative Liberalism

Daniel J. Mahoney: Bertrand de Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of Modernity (2005).

142. Voegelin the Revolutionary

Ellis Sandoz: The Voegelinian Revolution (1982).

143. Strauss on Political Philosophy

Hilail Gildin, ed.: An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays by Leo Strauss (1989).

Thomas L. Pangle, ed.: The Rebirth of Classical Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss (1982).

144. Adventures in Inquiry: Leo Strauss’s Quest

Carlo Altini: Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography. (2022).

145. Tyranny and Philosophy

Timothy W. Burns and Bryan-Paul Frost, eds.: Philosophy, History, and Tyranny: Re-examining the Debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève (2016).

146. Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger

Timothy W. Burns: Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education (2021).

147. Political Philosophy Now

Glenn Elmers: The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy. (2023).

148. Do Liberal Democracies Serve Any Purpose?

Kenneth L. Deutsch and Walter Soffer, eds.: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy: A Straussian Perspective (1988).

149. Strauss on Reason and Revelation

Susan Orr: Jerusalem and Athens (1995).

150. The ‘Young Strauss’: A Critique from the ‘Left’

Bruno Quélennec: Retour dans la caverne: Philosophie politique et religion chez le jeune Leo Strauss (2018).

151. Political Philosophy in Beijing: A Consideration of Strauss.

Laurence Lampert: Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche: Philosophy and Its Poetry. Lecture I: “Strauss Recovers the Tradition of Philosophic Poetry”; Lecture II: “Strauss, Nietzsche, and the Philosophic Poetry of the Future.” Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2024.

152. Sartre and the “Last Man”

153. Beauvoir’s Politics

Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex. H. M. Parshley translation (1964 edition).

Sonia Kruks: Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (2012).

154. Dialogue Against Ideology: Raymond Aron’s Political Science

Nathan Orlando: Raymond Aron and His Dialogues in an Age of Ideologies. (2023).

155. The Goodness of Banality

156. What Is Analytic Philosophy?

Stephen Schwartz: A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls. West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons, 2012.

157. Is Logic ‘About’ Anything?

Henry B. Veatch: Two Logics: The Conflict between Classical and Neo-Analytic Philosophy (1969).

158. Logic and Ethics: Is There a Connection?

Henry B. Veatch: Realism and Nominalism (1954).

Henry B. Veatch: Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics (1962).

159. Anarcho-Capitalism Refuted

Murray N. Rothbard: The Ethics of Liberty (1980).

160. Singer’s Critique of Sociobiology

Peter Singer: The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (1981).

161. Two Critiques of Nihilism

Alasdair McIntyre: After Virtue (1981).

Stanley Rosen: Nihilism: A Philosophical Essay (1969).

162. ‘Postmoderns’ Deconstructed

Stanley Corngold: The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory (1986).

163. ‘Postmodernism’ as Disguised Modernism

Stanley Rosen: Hermeneutics and Politics (1987).

Leo Strauss: On Tyranny (2013 edition).

164. Origins of the ‘New Left’

George Friedman: The Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School (1981).

165. This Is Not an Essay: Critiques of Rawls from the ‘Left’

Chantal Mouffe: The Return of the Political (1993).

John Exdell: “Feminism, Fundamentalism, and Liberal Democracy” (1994).

166. Derrida and ‘Deconstruction’

Jacques Derrida: “History of the Lie” (2002).

Hannah Arendt: “Lying in Politics” (1972).

167. Michel Foucault v. Nancy Fraser: Dueling Aphorisms

Paul Rabinow, ed.: The Foucault Reader (1984).

Nancy Fraser: “Foucault on Modern Power” (1981).

168. Liberal Multiculturalism: Kymlicka’s Case

Will Kymlicka: Liberalism, Community, and Culture. (1989).

169. Liberal Multiculturalism, II

Will Kymlicka: Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. (1995).

170. ‘Deliberative Democracy’

Amy Guttmann and Dennis Thompson: Democracy and Disagreement (1996).

Jürgen Habermas: Between Facts and Norms (1996).

171. Political ‘Identitarianism’

Amy Guttmann: Identity in Democracy. (2003).

172. ‘Postmodern’ Happiness

Ross Abbinett: Politics of Happiness (2013).

173. How Some of Our Contemporaries Aspire to the Philosophic Life

174. Delimiting Philosophy

Stanley Rosen: The Limits of Analysis (1980).

Bernard Williams: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985).

175. Imagination, Reconsidered

Eva T. H. Brann: The World of the Imagination (1991).

176. How Can One Govern the Doubleness of Thought?

Hilary Putnam: Truth and History (1981).

177. A Question of Integrity: Wolgast’s Critique of Rawls

John Rawls: Political Liberalism (1996).

Elizabeth H. Wolgast: “The Demands of Public Reason” (1994).

178. Taylor’s “Politics of Recognition”

Charles Taylor et al.: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition (1994).

179. Strengthening Social Contract Theory?

Jeffrey Reiman: Justice and Moral Philosophy (1992).

180. Liberalism’s “Two Faces”

John Gray: Two Faces of Liberalism (2000).

181. What Has Plato to Do with Modern Europe?

Jan Patocka: Plato and Europe (2002).

182. In Defense of Humanism

Tzetan Todorov: Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism (2002).

183. Marxism in Crisis

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe: Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. Chapters 1-2. (2014).

184. Political Theory for a Postmodernist ‘Left’

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe: Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. Chapters 3-4. (2014).

185. What is Beauty?

Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1968).

Roger Scruton: Beauty (2009).

186. Scruton Sums Up

Roger Scruton and Mark Dooley: Conversations with Roger Scruton (2016).

187. Wise Contemporaries: Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent

Daniel J. Mahoney: Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul (2022).

188. Mobbed by Consent

189. Manent on Thinking Politically

Pierre Manent: Seeing Things Politically. Ralph Hancock translation. (2015).

190. Natural Law and the Rights of Men

Pierre Manent: La Loi Naturelle et les Droits des Hommes (2018).

191. Pacifism and Just War

Jenny Teichman: Pacifism and Just War: A Study in Applied Philosophy (1987).

192. Can the Use of Nuclear Weapons Be Moral?

Joseph P. Martino: A Fighting Chance: The Moral Use of Nuclear Weapons (1988).

193. Peace Seeking in the Western Tradition

James Turner Johnson: The Quest for Peace (1987).

194. Pacifism’s Moral Crisis

Guenter Lewy: Peace and Revolution: The Moral Crisis of American Pacifism (1988).

195. Philosophy and Just War

Christopher Coker: Barbarous Philosophers: Reflections on the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg (2010).

196. The Morality of Nuclear Deterrence

Jonathan Shell: The Fate of the Earth (1982).

Nigel Blake and Kay Pole, eds.: Objections to Nuclear Defence (1984).

197. Is International Law Tyrannical?

Chantal Delsol: Unjust Justice: Against the Tyranny of International Law (2008).

198. Mercy

Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish: The Decline of Mercy in Public Life (2014).

199. What Are Persons Worth?

James Franklin: The Worth of Person: The Foundation of Ethics (2022).

200. Re-Politicizing Political Theory

Jeremy Waldron: Political Political Theory (2016).

201. Reconstituting Natural Philosophy

Nicholas Maxwell: In Praise of Natural Philosophy: A Revolution for Thought and Life (2017).

202. Conquest of Nature 6.0

Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel Sternberg: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (2018).

203. The Encounters of Seth Benardete

Seth Benardete: Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete. Part One.

204. The Reflections of Seth Benardete

Seth Benardete: Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete. Part Two.

“Bible Notes”: Table of Contents

October 31, 2018 by Will Morrisey

NOTE: The “Contents” section of the site menu lists all articles, divided into six categories (“Bible Notes,” “Philosophers,” “American Politics,” “Nations,” “Manners and Morals,” and “Remembrances.” The articles are arranged in the chronological order of their posting. This Table of Contents lists articles in the “Bible Notes” section in the order in which they may be read as if they were chapters in a book.

1. The Song of Moses and the Regime of God

Deuteronomy 32.43.

2. The Problem of Factionalism in the Book of Ruth

3. What Can We Learn from the Prophet Zephaniah?

4. Jerusalem versus Athens

Paul Eidelberg: Jerusalem vs. Athens: In Quest of a General Theory of Existence (1983).

5. Jewish Law versus Modern Philosophy

Joseph B. Soloveitchik: The Halakhic Mind: An Essay on Jewish Tradition and Modern Thought (1987).

6. The Jewish Critique of Nature

Aharon Appelfeld: The Age of Wonders (1982).

7. Jewish Interrogations of Modernity

Bernard Malamud: The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1984).

Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Penitent (1983).

8. Anti-Jewish Malice

Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin: Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemistism (1984).

9. Buber’s Anti-Utopian Utopianism

Maurice Friedman: Martin Buber’s Life and Work: The Early Years: 1878-1923 (1982).

10. Wiesel’s Testament

Elie Wiesel: The Testament (1980).

11. Founding the Christian Regime

Letter to the Ephesians.

Paul Stott: Building a Community in Christ (1998).

12. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians

13. What Is Christian Union?

Colossians 3:1-17.

14. The First Epistle of John.

15. Augustine’s Critique of Philosophy

Augustine: Confessions (1960 edition).

16. Augustine on War

William R. Stevenson, Jr.: Christian Love and the Just War: Moral Paradox and Political Life in St. Augustine and His Modern Interpreters (1988).

17. Augustine on Predestination and Free Will: A Note

18. John of Paris on Royal and Papal Power

John of Paris: On Royal and Papal Power. J. A. Watt translation. (2002).

19. Bonaventure on the Distinction between Conscience and Synderesis

Bonaventure: Conscience and Synderesis. McGrade, Kilcullen, and Kemphsaw translation. (2001).

20. Shakespeare: Thinking About God

Robert G. Hunter: Shakespeare and the History of god’s Judgments. (1976).

21. Donne’s Candle for St. Lucy

John Donne: “A Nocturnall upon St. Lucies Day, Being the Shortest Day.”

22. Reason within the Limits of Religion Alone: The Achievement of Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker: On the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1874 edition).

Robert K. Faulkner: Richard Hooker and the Politics of a Christian England (1981).

23. Bossuet on “Universal History” before the Advent of Jesus

Jacques-Bénigne de Bossuet: Discourse on Universal History. Elborg Foster translation. (1976).

24. Bossuet on “Universal History” as Re-written by Christ

Jacques-Bénigne de Bossuet: Discourse on Universal History. Elborg Foster translation. Part II, chapters 19-31, Part III. (1976).

25. Bossuet’s Christian Prince

Jacques-Bénigne de Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture. Patrick Riley translation. Books I-II. (1990).

26. Bossuet on Royal Authority

Jacques-Bénigne de Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture. Patrick Riley translation. Books III-V. (1990).

27. Bossuet on Civic Duty

Jacques-Bénigne de Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture. Patrick Riley translation. Books VI-VIII. (1990).

28. Bossuet on the Supports of Royalty

Jacques-Bénigne de Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture. Patrick Riley translation. Book IX. (1990).

29. Chateaubriand’s Defense of Christianity

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand: The Genius of Christianity, or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion, Part I. Charles I. White translation. (1875).

30. Chateaubriand in Jerusalem

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand: Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. Parts III-VII. A. S. Kline translation. (2011).

31. The Life of a Clerical Aristocrat

François-René de Chateaubriand: Vie de Rancé. Printed in Monsee, Illinois, 2020.

32. The Poetic of Christianity

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand: The Genius of Christianity, Part II (1875).

33. Christianity and the Liberal Arts

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand: The Genius of Christianity, Part III (1875).

34. Christian Forms of Worship

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand: The Genius of Christianity, Part IV (1875).

35. The Religious Statecraft of Pius X

Pius X: The Complete Collected Encyclicals of Pius X. (2023).

36. Pius X on “Modernism”

Pius X: Lamentabili Sane.

_____. Pacendi Dominici Fregis.

_____. “The Oath Against Modernism.”

37. The Derangement of Love in the Western World

Denis de Rougement: Love in the Western World. Montgomery Belgion translation. (1983).

38. An American Orthodoxy?

Damascene Christensen: Not of This World: The Life and Teachings of Fr. Seraphim Rose (1985).

39. Solzhenitsyn’s Legacy

Daniel J. Mahoney: The Other Solzhenitsyn: Telling the Truth about a Misunderstood Writer and Thinker (2014).

40. Some Thoughts Concerning Christian Liberal Education

William V. Frame: The Dialogue of Faith and Reason: The Speeches and Papers of William V. Frame (2006).

41. The Humanitarian Temptation

Daniel J. Mahoney: The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity (2018).

42. Manent on “The Religion of Humanity”

Pierre Manent: The Religion of Humanity: The Illusion of Our Times (2022).

43. “Peace on Earth”

Essay published 1983.

44. Sufi Islam

Hujjat al-Islam Abu Hamid Muhammad Ghazali Tusi: On Knowing Yourself and God. Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam translation. Great Books of the Islamic World. (2002).

45. Theology as Inquiry

Michael Bauman: Pilgrim Theology: Taking the Path of Theological Discovery. (2007).

46. The Names of Jesus

Alistair Beggs and Sinclair Ferguson: Name Above All Names. (2013).

47. What Is Sanctification?

Sinclair Ferguson: Devoted to God: Blueprints for Sanctification (2016).

48. Who Is Jesus?

Sinclair Ferguson and Derek W. H. Thomas: Icthus: Jesus Christ, God’s Son, the Saviour. (2018).

49. Abortion Wrongs

Michael Spencer: Humanly Speaking: The Evil of Abortion, the Silence of the Church, and the Grace of God (2021).

Peter Singer: Practical Ethics. Chapter 6: “Taking Life: The Embryo and the Fetus.” (2011).

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