Luke Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 5922968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Government of the District of Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2742-1820 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Montesquieu’s Case for Honor in Publius and Adams
Montesquieu’s philosophy of moderate government offers only a qualified endorsement of commercial republics. Recent scholarship has increasingly recognized the extent to which he advocated a monarchy balanced by an aristocracy. This article explicates Montesquieu’s understanding of honor as a vital aristocratic motive and one more consistently favorable to liberty than mercantile self-interest. It then compares this argument to the constitutional…
Socratic Remnant” versus “Creative Democracy”
This article reimagines the role of universities in American public life today by examining two early twentieth-century critics of the research university. Both worried that the new educational system could fracture democratic society, but they drew opposite conclusions about the positive role of universities. Irving Babbitt led a New Humanist school that made the case for liberal learning as a good in itself, but one also capable of cultivating …
Can the Great Books Serve the Common Good? Tocqueville on Aristocratic Education in a Democratic Age
This article engages two established modes of analyzing Tocqueville’s theory in Democracy in America—the institutionalism of Volume 1 and the “art of association” of Volume 2—to argue for the importance of a Platonic theme in Tocqueville, that of education for leadership. After establishing why Tocqueville argues that democracy struggles to cultivate quality leadership, the article turns to examining one proposed solution: education in the classi…
Can the Great Books Serve the Common Good? Tocqueville on Aristocratic Education in a Democratic Age
This article engages two established modes of analyzing Tocqueville’s theory in Democracy in America—the institutionalism of Volume 1 and the “art of association” of Volume 2—to argue for the importance of a Platonic theme in Tocqueville, that of education for leadership. After establishing why Tocqueville argues that democracy struggles to cultivate quality leadership, the article turns to examining one proposed solution: education in the classi…
Socratic Remnant” versus “Creative Democracy”
This article reimagines the role of universities in American public life today by examining two early twentieth-century critics of the research university. Both worried that the new educational system could fracture democratic society, but they drew opposite conclusions about the positive role of universities. Irving Babbitt led a New Humanist school that made the case for liberal learning as a good in itself, but one also capable of cultivating …
Can the Great Books Serve the Common Good? Tocqueville on Aristocratic Education in a Democratic Age
This article engages two established modes of analyzing Tocqueville’s theory in Democracy in America—the institutionalism of Volume 1 and the “art of association” of Volume 2—to argue for the importance of a Platonic theme in Tocqueville, that of education for leadership. After establishing why Tocqueville argues that democracy struggles to cultivate quality leadership, the article turns to examining one proposed solution: education in the classi…
Montesquieu’s Case for Honor in Publius and Adams
Montesquieu’s philosophy of moderate government offers only a qualified endorsement of commercial republics. Recent scholarship has increasingly recognized the extent to which he advocated a monarchy balanced by an aristocracy. This article explicates Montesquieu’s understanding of honor as a vital aristocratic motive and one more consistently favorable to liberty than mercantile self-interest. It then compares this argument to the constitutional…
Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)