Volume 42, Issue 3, Spring 2016

$15.00

This is a complete volume and includes articles, book reviews, discussions and special reviews.

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Holbein and Plato on the Quadriviumby David Foster

A Woman’s Laws and a Man’s: Eros and Thumos in Rousseau’s Julie, or The New Heloise (1761) and The Deer Hunter (1978)
by Nelson Lund

Socrates’s Argument for the Superiority of the Life Dedicated to Politics
by Thomas L. Pangle

REVIEW ESSAYS:

How Philosophy Became Socratic: A Study of Plato’s “Protagoras,” “Charades,” and “Republic”
by Laurence Lampert
reviewed by Liu Xiaofeng

The Meanings of Rights: The Philosophy and Social Theory of Rights, edited by Costas Douzinas and Conor Gearty; Libertarian Philosophy in the Real World: The Politics of Natural Rights by Mark D. Friedman; The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism by Steven Wall
reviewed by Matthew Post

An Exchange: Reply to Antoine Pageau St.-Hilaire’s Review of After Leo Strauss: New Directions in Platonic Political Philosophy
reviewed by Tucker Landy

Strauss’s Platonism and the Fate of Metaphysics: A Rejoinder to Tucker Landy’s Reply
reviewed by Antoine P. St-Hilaire

BOOK REVIEWS:

Arendtian Constitutionalism: Law, Politics and the Order of Freedom
by Christian Volk
reviewed by Rodrigo Chacón

Scripture and Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Alex P. Jassen
reviewed by Ross J. Corbett

On Sovereignty and other Political Delusions by Joan Cocks; Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism
by Sharon Krause
reviewed by Bernard J. Dobski

On Plato’s “Euthyphro”
by Ronna Burger
reviewed by Lewis Fallis

Political Philosophy: What It Is and Why It Matters
by Ronald Beiner
reviewed by Hannes Kerber

Western Civilization and the Academy
by Bradley C. S. Watson
reviewed by Pavlos Leonidas Papadopoulos

Democracy in Decline?
by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner
reviewed by Antonio Sosa

Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville
by J. Judd Owen
reviewed by Dana Jalbert Stauffer

The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience
by Alan E. Johnson
reviewed by John B. Tieder Jr.

The Political Is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy
by Lorna Finlayson
reviewed by Shawn Welnak

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