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The Social Philosophers
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In this provocative, classic, absorbing work of social and intellectual history, Robert Nisbet advances the idea that Western social philosophy arose during the disintegration of the ancient Greek and Roman communities, and has been preoccupied ever since with the problem of community lost and community to be gained. He further contends that Western ideas of moral authority, freedom, consensus, and personality take on their distinctive character when viewed through the lens of humankind’s search for community.
Much of the book’s originality lies in its organization. Nisbet distinguishes six major types of community in Western life and thought: military, political, religious, revolutionary, ecological, and plural. Each of these is presented as a continuing current in Western history and as a vital context to the central ideas of social philosophy. From Plato and Aristotle down to such modern thinkers as Marx, Tocqueville, Weber, Kropotkin, and Fanon, we are able to see the dominant ideas and perspectives of Western thought as responses to conflicts and crises—above all, to those affecting humankind’s quest for community. Written by one of America’s best-known historical sociologists, and with a new foreword by Luke Sheahan, The Social Philosophers will be of interest to the student as well as the general reader.
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Academica
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Maurus of Salerno
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Jatakastava or “Praise of the Buddha’s Former Births”
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Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)
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Paradoxes of Free Will
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Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles
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Some Assumptions of Aristotle
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Theater of Man
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Maistre Nicole Oresme
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Evils of Necessity
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Sophie de Grouchy Letters on Sympathy (1798)
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Denotation of Generic Terms in Ancient Indian Philosophy
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New Fragment of Xenocrates and its Implications
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Philosophical Lectures by Samuel Williams, LL.D., on the Constitution, Duty, and Religion of Man
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Gaetano Filangieri and His Science of Legislation
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Search for a New Voltaire
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James Logan’s “The Duties of Man As They May Be Deduced from Nature”
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Denotation of Generic Terms in Ancient Indian Philosophy
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Theater of Man
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Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles
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Academica
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Evils of Necessity
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Jatakastava or “Praise of the Buddha’s Former Births”
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Search for a New Voltaire
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Some Assumptions of Aristotle
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New Fragment of Xenocrates and its Implications
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Moses Maimonides’ Two Treatises on the Regimen of Health
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Maistre Nicole Oresme
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Maurus of Salerno
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Philosophical Lectures by Samuel Williams, LL.D., on the Constitution, Duty, and Religion of Man
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Gaetano Filangieri and His Science of Legislation
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Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)
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Sophie de Grouchy Letters on Sympathy (1798)
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Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment
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Paradoxes of Free Will
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