Humanitas articles from March 2001

Humanitas archives from March 2001

Savior Nation: Woodrow Wilson and the Gospel of Service.
March 22, 2001... Augustine's City of God identifies pride and humility as the founding principles of the City of Man and the City of God. (1) Leaving no mystery as to the identity of the most recent embodiment of the arrogant City of Man in his own day,...

Left and Right Eclecticism: Roger Kimball's Cultural Criticism.
March 22, 2001... Roger Kimball, managing editor of The New Criterion, has recently received extraordinary praise in America. He has been hailed by Irving Kristol as 'among our most intelligent, thoughtful, and provocative cultural critics', and by Frederick...

Ernst Troeltsch's Critique of Hegel: Normative Thought and History.(philosopher Georg Wilhelm Hegel)
March 22, 2001... Introduction Hegel's philosophy is as well known to us through the assessment of his detractors as from sympathetic readings. From Schelling's earliest critique to Karl Popper's diatribe we are afforded a range of criticism that reveals...

Piety, Universality, and History: Leo Strauss on Thucydides.
March 22, 2001... Having compiled his history of the Peloponnesian War before "the change in thought that was effected by Socrates" occurred, Thucydides occupies no obvious place in Leo Strauss's unique exposition of the history of political ideas. (1)...

Power Is Coercion: A Response to Claes Ryn. (Dialogue on Power).(regarding the book "After Liberalism")
March 22, 2001... Claes Ryn's article "Dimensions of Power" (1) includes a thoughtful and closely argued commentary on my book After Liberalism, and it behooves me to respond in the same serious way in which he presents his position. Ryn does not distort my...

A Broader, Subtler View of Power. (Dialogue on Power).(response to article by Paul Gottfried in this issue, p. 96)
March 22, 2001... Professor Gottfried's response (1) to my article on power is useful in that it clarifies his position and confirms the philosophical differences between us. I am glad to know that he does not think that I have distorted his position. What is...

Tradition, Habit, and Social Interaction: A Response to Mark Bevir. (Dialogue on Tradition).(regarding Bevir's essay "On Tradition")
March 22, 2001... Tradition constitutes the inescapable background to human life. Historians construct particular traditions out of the general flux of tradition by tracing the temporal and conceptual connections that flow out of the particular object or objects...

On Practices. (Dialogue on Tradition).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... I am grateful to Dr. Frohnen for providing me with an opportunity to elucidate further my analysis of tradition (1) and its place in social life. My response will take a step toward him but then two back. Frohnen suggests (2) that my...