Robert C Bartlett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1037594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert C Bartlett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartlett |
| SIGNATURE | BARTLETT R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Leo Strauss on Plato’s "Protagoras"
Idea of Enlightenment: A Postmortem Study
How to Rule the World: An Introduction to Xenophon'sThe Education of Cyrus
As a contribution to the study of empire and imperial ambition, the present study considers the greatest analysis-Xenophon'sThe Education of Cyrus-of one of the greatest empires of antiquity-the Persian. Xenophon's lively and engaging account permits us to watch Cyrus as he builds a transnational empire, at once vast and stable. Yet Xenophon is ultimately highly critical of Cyrus, because he lacks the self-knowledge requisite to happiness, and of…
Mothers' borderline features and children's disorganized attachment representations as predictors of children's externalizing behavior
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Introduction to the Problem of Happiness: On Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics
The study of Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics is useful today in part because it deals with a question—the nature of human happiness—whose relevance is obvious. But in dealing with that question, Book I compels us to raise difficulties for ourselves that, far from being obvious, are in danger of being forgotten. Chief among these difficulties are, first, the true character of our hope for happiness and, ultimately, the necessity of there being a …
Plato's Critique of Hedonism in the Philebus
No one can claim to have thought seriously about the question "How ought I to live?", the guiding question of political philosophy, without having confronted the powerful answer to it supplied by hedonism. In thinking about hedonism today, we may begin from that thinker who was both very important to and early in its history: Plato. Of the dialogs that have come down to us as Plato's, only the Philebus takes as its direct aim the examination of p…
Kicking the Rascals Out
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An introduction to Hesiod's Works and Days
The present essay sketches the outline and the intention of Hesiod's Works and Days . Hesiod's principal task appears to be the identification (and praise) of the best way of life for his wayward brother Perses, but in carrying out this task, Hesiod speaks of justice and its human and divine supports in such a way as to go well beyond what would be of benefit to his brother. For in the course of his analysis of justice, or as a result of it, Hesi…
Political Philosophy and Sophistry: An Introduction to Plato's Protagoras
Political Philosophy and Sophistry: An Introduction to Plato's Protagoras
This study of Plato's Protagoras seeks not only to advance the understanding of ancient sophistry, a task both important in its own right and essential to the study of the history of political thought, but also to lay a foundation for subsequent inquiries into the connection between ancient sophistry and the relativism characteristic of our age. According to the Protagoras, the chief difference between philosopher and sophist is that the latter w…
Socratic Political Philosophy and the Problem of Virtue
Plato's Meno deserves careful examination today because it highlights two facets of the concern for virtue neglected or obscured by the current revival of virtue among liberal theorists: the devotion to a good that cannot simply be reduced either to individual flourishing or to communal well-being-what Plato calls "nobility" or "the noble"; and the complex relation of virtue so understood to the concern for religion or piety. If the sought-for in…
On the Politics of Faith and Reason: The Project of Enlightenment in Pierre Bayle and Montesquieu
This study seeks to contribute to our understanding of the original political goals of the Enlightenment, especially in its confrontation with the Bible as a source of political guidance. It consists primarily of an exegesis of two seminal works of the period, Pierre Bayle's Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet (1682) and Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748). With clarity, grace, and power, both works make manifest the grandeur of the E…
On The Decline of Contemporary Political Development Studies
This study argues that the self-described “malaise” in the study of political development theory is in part the product of the early attempt to strip judgments of value from those of fact in the interests of a more scientific comparative politics; that the resulting science has been inclined to ignore or neglect what may be the most fundamental difference between the modern and premodern worlds, namely the elimination of all religious concerns fr…
Plato's World: Man's Place in the Cosmos. Joseph Cropsey
Aristotle's Science of the Best Regime
In this Controversy, Mary Nichols and Robert Bartlett both enlist Aristotle in support of a liberal politics. Nichols finds that the Aristotle analyzed by Bartlett in his remarks in this Review in 1994 leads us away from politics into a life of perfect contemplation. The real Aristotle, she avers, by calling attention to the "limits of reason," leaves room for the gods, personal freedom, and shared power. Bartlett responds that the life of contem…
The "Realism" of Classical Political Science
The end of Aristotle's best regime is, almost from the outset, action in accord with moral virtue. Aristotle subsequently casts doubt, however, on the happiness and even the justice of the city so understood, and he is led eventually to posit leisure as the city's goal on the grounds that it is the only politically feasible reflection of the true end, philosophy. By thus beginning from and taking seriously the attachment to moral virtue character…
Aristotle's Science of the Best Regime
Aristotle's science of the best regime brings to light an almost forgotten hut by no means settled quarrel between reason and faith concerning the best way of life and its political embodiments. Aristotle denies the claimed superiority of divine legislation, in favor of the guidance supplied by unaided reason. Aristotle knows, however, as contemporary political science may not, that only by confronting the divine law as such can science avoid col…
Aristotle's Science of the Best Regime
Aristotle's science of the best regime brings to light an almost forgotten hut by no means settled quarrel between reason and faith concerning the best way of life and its political embodiments. Aristotle denies the claimed superiority of divine legislation, in favor of the guidance supplied by unaided reason. Aristotle knows, however, as contemporary political science may not, that only by confronting the divine law as such can science avoid col…
Aristotle's Introduction to the Problem of Happiness: On Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics
The study of Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics is useful today in part because it deals with a question—the nature of human happiness—whose relevance is obvious. But in dealing with that question, Book I compels us to raise difficulties for ourselves that, far from being obvious, are in danger of being forgotten. Chief among these difficulties are, first, the true character of our hope for happiness and, ultimately, the necessity of there being a …
On the Politics of Faith and Reason: The Project of Enlightenment in Pierre Bayle and Montesquieu
This study seeks to contribute to our understanding of the original political goals of the Enlightenment, especially in its confrontation with the Bible as a source of political guidance. It consists primarily of an exegesis of two seminal works of the period, Pierre Bayle's Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet (1682) and Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748). With clarity, grace, and power, both works make manifest the grandeur of the E…
The "Realism" of Classical Political Science
The end of Aristotle's best regime is, almost from the outset, action in accord with moral virtue. Aristotle subsequently casts doubt, however, on the happiness and even the justice of the city so understood, and he is led eventually to posit leisure as the city's goal on the grounds that it is the only politically feasible reflection of the true end, philosophy. By thus beginning from and taking seriously the attachment to moral virtue character…
How to Rule the World: An Introduction to Xenophon'sThe Education of Cyrus
As a contribution to the study of empire and imperial ambition, the present study considers the greatest analysis-Xenophon'sThe Education of Cyrus-of one of the greatest empires of antiquity-the Persian. Xenophon's lively and engaging account permits us to watch Cyrus as he builds a transnational empire, at once vast and stable. Yet Xenophon is ultimately highly critical of Cyrus, because he lacks the self-knowledge requisite to happiness, and of…
Political Philosophy and Sophistry: An Introduction to Plato's Protagoras
This study of Plato's Protagoras seeks not only to advance the understanding of ancient sophistry, a task both important in its own right and essential to the study of the history of political thought, but also to lay a foundation for subsequent inquiries into the connection between ancient sophistry and the relativism characteristic of our age. According to the Protagoras, the chief difference between philosopher and sophist is that the latter w…
Socratic Political Philosophy and the Problem of Virtue
Plato's Meno deserves careful examination today because it highlights two facets of the concern for virtue neglected or obscured by the current revival of virtue among liberal theorists: the devotion to a good that cannot simply be reduced either to individual flourishing or to communal well-being-what Plato calls "nobility" or "the noble"; and the complex relation of virtue so understood to the concern for religion or piety. If the sought-for in…
Plato's Critique of Hedonism in the Philebus
No one can claim to have thought seriously about the question "How ought I to live?", the guiding question of political philosophy, without having confronted the powerful answer to it supplied by hedonism. In thinking about hedonism today, we may begin from that thinker who was both very important to and early in its history: Plato. Of the dialogs that have come down to us as Plato's, only the Philebus takes as its direct aim the examination of p…
Aristotle's Science of the Best Regime
In this Controversy, Mary Nichols and Robert Bartlett both enlist Aristotle in support of a liberal politics. Nichols finds that the Aristotle analyzed by Bartlett in his remarks in this Review in 1994 leads us away from politics into a life of perfect contemplation. The real Aristotle, she avers, by calling attention to the "limits of reason," leaves room for the gods, personal freedom, and shared power. Bartlett responds that the life of contem…
The "Realism" of Classical Political Science
The end of Aristotle's best regime is, almost from the outset, action in accord with moral virtue. Aristotle subsequently casts doubt, however, on the happiness and even the justice of the city so understood, and he is led eventually to posit leisure as the city's goal on the grounds that it is the only politically feasible reflection of the true end, philosophy. By thus beginning from and taking seriously the attachment to moral virtue character…
Aristotle's Science of the Best Regime
Aristotle's science of the best regime brings to light an almost forgotten hut by no means settled quarrel between reason and faith concerning the best way of life and its political embodiments. Aristotle denies the claimed superiority of divine legislation, in favor of the guidance supplied by unaided reason. Aristotle knows, however, as contemporary political science may not, that only by confronting the divine law as such can science avoid col…
Aristotle's Science of the Best Regime
In this Controversy, Mary Nichols and Robert Bartlett both enlist Aristotle in support of a liberal politics. Nichols finds that the Aristotle analyzed by Bartlett in his remarks in this Review in 1994 leads us away from politics into a life of perfect contemplation. The real Aristotle, she avers, by calling attention to the "limits of reason," leaves room for the gods, personal freedom, and shared power. Bartlett responds that the life of contem…
On The Decline of Contemporary Political Development Studies
This study argues that the self-described “malaise” in the study of political development theory is in part the product of the early attempt to strip judgments of value from those of fact in the interests of a more scientific comparative politics; that the resulting science has been inclined to ignore or neglect what may be the most fundamental difference between the modern and premodern worlds, namely the elimination of all religious concerns fr…
Plato's World: Man's Place in the Cosmos. Joseph Cropsey
On the Politics of Faith and Reason: The Project of Enlightenment in Pierre Bayle and Montesquieu
This study seeks to contribute to our understanding of the original political goals of the Enlightenment, especially in its confrontation with the Bible as a source of political guidance. It consists primarily of an exegesis of two seminal works of the period, Pierre Bayle's Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet (1682) and Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748). With clarity, grace, and power, both works make manifest the grandeur of the E…
Socratic Political Philosophy and the Problem of Virtue
Plato's Meno deserves careful examination today because it highlights two facets of the concern for virtue neglected or obscured by the current revival of virtue among liberal theorists: the devotion to a good that cannot simply be reduced either to individual flourishing or to communal well-being-what Plato calls "nobility" or "the noble"; and the complex relation of virtue so understood to the concern for religion or piety. If the sought-for in…
Political Philosophy and Sophistry: An Introduction to Plato's Protagoras
Political Philosophy and Sophistry: An Introduction to Plato's Protagoras
This study of Plato's Protagoras seeks not only to advance the understanding of ancient sophistry, a task both important in its own right and essential to the study of the history of political thought, but also to lay a foundation for subsequent inquiries into the connection between ancient sophistry and the relativism characteristic of our age. According to the Protagoras, the chief difference between philosopher and sophist is that the latter w…
Kicking the Rascals Out
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An introduction to Hesiod's Works and Days
The present essay sketches the outline and the intention of Hesiod's Works and Days . Hesiod's principal task appears to be the identification (and praise) of the best way of life for his wayward brother Perses, but in carrying out this task, Hesiod speaks of justice and its human and divine supports in such a way as to go well beyond what would be of benefit to his brother. For in the course of his analysis of justice, or as a result of it, Hesi…
Aristotle's Introduction to the Problem of Happiness: On Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics
The study of Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics is useful today in part because it deals with a question—the nature of human happiness—whose relevance is obvious. But in dealing with that question, Book I compels us to raise difficulties for ourselves that, far from being obvious, are in danger of being forgotten. Chief among these difficulties are, first, the true character of our hope for happiness and, ultimately, the necessity of there being a …
Plato's Critique of Hedonism in the Philebus
No one can claim to have thought seriously about the question "How ought I to live?", the guiding question of political philosophy, without having confronted the powerful answer to it supplied by hedonism. In thinking about hedonism today, we may begin from that thinker who was both very important to and early in its history: Plato. Of the dialogs that have come down to us as Plato's, only the Philebus takes as its direct aim the examination of p…
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Mothers' borderline features and children's disorganized attachment representations as predictors of children's externalizing behavior
How to Rule the World: An Introduction to Xenophon'sThe Education of Cyrus
As a contribution to the study of empire and imperial ambition, the present study considers the greatest analysis-Xenophon'sThe Education of Cyrus-of one of the greatest empires of antiquity-the Persian. Xenophon's lively and engaging account permits us to watch Cyrus as he builds a transnational empire, at once vast and stable. Yet Xenophon is ultimately highly critical of Cyrus, because he lacks the self-knowledge requisite to happiness, and of…
Idea of Enlightenment: A Postmortem Study
Leo Strauss on Plato’s "Protagoras"
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