Humanitas articles from September 2003

Humanitas archives from September 2003

Method and civic education.
September 22, 2003... 1. Introduction Ceux qui, comme porte nostre usage, entreprenent d'une mesme lecon & pareille mesure de conduite, regenter plusieurs esprits de si diverses mesures & formes: ce n'est pas merveille, si en tout un peuple ...

Metapolitics revisited.
September 22, 2003... There are now three changed editions of my Metapolitics, with varying subtitles. Written between 1936 and 1941, while the author was an undergraduate and graduate at Harvard and Oxford, the first edition appeared with Knopf in mid 1941 (before...

Nietzsche on the cross: the defence of personal freedom in the birth of tragedy.
September 22, 2003... Appropriating the Mask of Apostasy Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hiding place, every word a mask. In his later writings, Friedrich Nietzsche often reflects on what he considers to be the...

Augustine and the case for limited government.
September 22, 2003... Augustine's thought has ever held a deep attraction for the Western mind and has, of course, profoundly shaped the moral traditions that inform Western political culture. Although Augustine, the Christian theologian and statesman, never...

Harmony and beauty, disease and suffering: indeterminacy a necessary condition for free will.
September 22, 2003... The order and harmony of the universe could be much more easily reconciled with the iniquity of nature (incomprehensible natural calamities) if we were to accept without thought that the universe is accidental and not something responding to a...