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Rebecca LeMoine: Plato's Caves: The Liberating Sting of Cultural Diversity. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 276.)
In: The review of politics, Band 82, Heft 4, S. 674-677
ISSN: 1748-6858
Homer's Hero: Human Excellence in the Iliad and the Odyssey
Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence. Offering a new, Plato-inspired reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this book traces the divergent consequences of love of honor and love of one's own private life for human excellence, justice, and politics. Analyzing Homer's intricate character portraits, Michelle M. Kundmeuller concludes that the poet shows that the excellence or virtue to which humans incline depends on what they love most. Ajax's character demonstrates that human beings who seek honor strive, perhaps above all, to display their courage in battle, while Agamemnon's shows that the love of honor ultimately undermines the potential for moderation, destabilizing political order. In contrast to these portraits, the excellence that Homer links to the love of one's own, such as by Odysseus and his wife, Penelope, fosters moderation and employs speech to resolve conflict. It is Odysseus, rather than Achilles, who is the pinnacle of heroic excellence. Homer's portrait of humanity reveals the value of love of one's own as the better, albeit still incomplete, precursor to a just political order. Kundmueller brings her reading of Homer to bear on contemporary tensions between private life and the pursuit of public honor, arguing that individual desires continue to shape human excellence and our prospects for justice. [From the publisher] ; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/1037/thumbnail.jpg
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On the Importance of Penelope
In: Polity, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 43-71
ISSN: 1744-1684
Augustine, Shakespeare, and Tolkien on the Identification and Excellence of Humility in Politics
In: Perspectives on political science, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 210-217
ISSN: 1930-5478
Michael Anderegg. Lincoln and Shakespeare. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. Pp. xvi+222. $29.95
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 492-495
ISSN: 2161-1599
Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue: Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization, written by Peter J. Ahrensdorf
In: Polis: the journal for ancient greek political thought, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 210-212
ISSN: 2051-2996
Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue: Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization, written by Peter J. Ahrensdorf
In: Polis: the journal of ancient Greek political thought, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 210-212
ISSN: 0142-257X
Christopher N. Phillips. Epic in American Culture: Settlement to Reconstruction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Pp. xi+360. $70.00
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 187-189
ISSN: 2161-1599