Ralph C Hancock
Biographic Data
| ID | 702312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph C Hancock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph C |
| FAMILY NAME | Hancock |
| SIGNATURE | HANCOCK R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Restless Virtue: Greatness in Lawler, Tocqueville, Pascal
A central theme of Peter Lawler’s thought, and of his interpretation of Tocqueville in particular, is the tension between the classical, aristocratic idea of excellence and that of greatness understood as a kind of sublime anxiety, a restlessness that may characterize the democratic masses. His eloquent illustration of this connection is a permanent contribution, not only to Tocqueville studies, but to the task of political philosophy in the late…
Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
"Pierre Manent is one of France's leading political philosophers. This first English translation of his profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the nat…
Thinking, Acting, Flourishing: The Audacious Modesty of Pierre Manent’s Practical Natural Law
Pierre Manent's Natural Law and Human Rights is a brilliant contribution to the critique of the contemporary ideology of universal and ever-expanding “human rights” and of its foundations in the modern natural rights doctrine authored by Hobbes and prepared by Machiavelli. But Manent does not answer modern rationalism in the way we tend to expect. To open up the possibility of substantive goodness, he does not propose a new or restored theory or …
Stuck with Pride: Belated Reflections on Peter Lawler's Tocquevillean Greatness
"Stuck with Pride: Belated Reflections on Peter Lawler's Tocquevillean Greatness." Perspectives on Political Science, 47(1), pp. 19–20
Conservatism, Aesthetic and Active: Reflections on Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent
Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent provide us much to admire, as authors and as men, and much to ponder. They can be seen as collaborators in the defense of the nation-state against the empty universalism of “human rights,” and, more generally, in exposing the boundless arrogance and blindness of modern rationalism insofar as it denies its inheritance from premodern sources. This defense of the nation-state and critique of secular rationalism are of…
Whither Individualism
David Walsh's Theory and Practice
The July–September 2010 issue of this journal featured a symposium on the political thought of David Walsh, which concluded with David's “Response to Symposiasts.” This response, unsurprisingly, wa
The Existential and the Practical
David Walsh has demonstrated a unique gift for reading modernity sympathetically, for discerning within it a certain luminosity, in fact a distinctly Christian luminosity, without losing sight of modernity's darkest possibilities. In the magisterial concluding volume of his trilogy, he seeks to elaborate a “coherence” of modernity that is revealed not in concepts but only “through existence itself.” Finally, though, Walsh's enthusiasm for a purel…
Feature Reviews
Back to Where We Started, or, The New Hobbism Comes Out
Mark Lilla's summons to recover Hobbes's "art of intellectual separation" is stillborn. Lilla acknowledges the tendentiousness and theoretical inadequacy of Hobbes's approach, yet he falls back on that very strategy, refusing the real task of reconciling political and religious goods
Brownson's Political Providence, with Some Preliminary Comparisons with Tocqueville's Providential Statesmanship
An examination of Orestes Brownson's understanding of Providence suggests that, for Brownson, not only the American Founders, but also the "pagan" political philosophers—that is, the original founders of the idea of natural right—"built better than they knew." Tocqueville, in comparison, trusted less in Providence than Brownson and offers himself as a kind of mediator between reason and history, the universal and the particular
Tocqueville: Democratic Politics and the Modern Soul. Introduction
The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot
Hillsdale college
Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics.
Tocqueville on the Good of American Federalism
If Tocqueville emphasizes, at times, the tendency of American federalism toward consolidation and, at other times, its tendency toward disintegration, this is not because he is confused but because he is keenly aware of the difficulty of combining the advantages of bigness with those of smallness. Americans have succeeded in producing such a combination, not through a simple aggregation of institutional mechanisms but through a synthesis that rea…
Tocqueville on the Theory and Practice of American Federalism
James T. Schleifer, in his extremely valuable The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, laments the existences, in the Frenchman’s famous study, of “a lingering confusion” regarding the nature of American federalism
Religion and the Limits of Limited Government
A reflection on the meaning of limited government illuminates both its theoretical limits or boundaries and its practical limitations. The full rationality of the Lockean argument for narrowing the scope of politics to bodily self-interest may be questioned from two apparently opposite standpoints: because of its aggressive materialism or because it seems to rest upon a distinctly Christian dichotomy between spiritual and secular concerns. This p…
Fabulous Boulevard
Fabulous Boulevard. By Ralph Hancock. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1949. xiii + 322 pp. $3.50.) Get access Richard G. Lillard Richard G. Lillard Los Angeles City College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 37, Issue 1, June 1950, Page 159, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888798 Published: 01 June 1950
The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot
Tocqueville on the Good of American Federalism
If Tocqueville emphasizes, at times, the tendency of American federalism toward consolidation and, at other times, its tendency toward disintegration, this is not because he is confused but because he is keenly aware of the difficulty of combining the advantages of bigness with those of smallness. Americans have succeeded in producing such a combination, not through a simple aggregation of institutional mechanisms but through a synthesis that rea…
Fabulous Boulevard
Fabulous Boulevard. By Ralph Hancock. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1949. xiii + 322 pp. $3.50.) Get access Richard G. Lillard Richard G. Lillard Los Angeles City College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 37, Issue 1, June 1950, Page 159, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888798 Published: 01 June 1950
Religion and the Limits of Limited Government
A reflection on the meaning of limited government illuminates both its theoretical limits or boundaries and its practical limitations. The full rationality of the Lockean argument for narrowing the scope of politics to bodily self-interest may be questioned from two apparently opposite standpoints: because of its aggressive materialism or because it seems to rest upon a distinctly Christian dichotomy between spiritual and secular concerns. This p…
Tocqueville on the Theory and Practice of American Federalism
James T. Schleifer, in his extremely valuable The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, laments the existences, in the Frenchman’s famous study, of “a lingering confusion” regarding the nature of American federalism
Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics.
Tocqueville on the Good of American Federalism
If Tocqueville emphasizes, at times, the tendency of American federalism toward consolidation and, at other times, its tendency toward disintegration, this is not because he is confused but because he is keenly aware of the difficulty of combining the advantages of bigness with those of smallness. Americans have succeeded in producing such a combination, not through a simple aggregation of institutional mechanisms but through a synthesis that rea…
Hillsdale college
Tocqueville: Democratic Politics and the Modern Soul. Introduction
The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot
Brownson's Political Providence, with Some Preliminary Comparisons with Tocqueville's Providential Statesmanship
An examination of Orestes Brownson's understanding of Providence suggests that, for Brownson, not only the American Founders, but also the "pagan" political philosophers—that is, the original founders of the idea of natural right—"built better than they knew." Tocqueville, in comparison, trusted less in Providence than Brownson and offers himself as a kind of mediator between reason and history, the universal and the particular
Feature Reviews
Back to Where We Started, or, The New Hobbism Comes Out
Mark Lilla's summons to recover Hobbes's "art of intellectual separation" is stillborn. Lilla acknowledges the tendentiousness and theoretical inadequacy of Hobbes's approach, yet he falls back on that very strategy, refusing the real task of reconciling political and religious goods
The Existential and the Practical
David Walsh has demonstrated a unique gift for reading modernity sympathetically, for discerning within it a certain luminosity, in fact a distinctly Christian luminosity, without losing sight of modernity's darkest possibilities. In the magisterial concluding volume of his trilogy, he seeks to elaborate a “coherence” of modernity that is revealed not in concepts but only “through existence itself.” Finally, though, Walsh's enthusiasm for a purel…
David Walsh's Theory and Practice
The July–September 2010 issue of this journal featured a symposium on the political thought of David Walsh, which concluded with David's “Response to Symposiasts.” This response, unsurprisingly, wa
Whither Individualism
Conservatism, Aesthetic and Active: Reflections on Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent
Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent provide us much to admire, as authors and as men, and much to ponder. They can be seen as collaborators in the defense of the nation-state against the empty universalism of “human rights,” and, more generally, in exposing the boundless arrogance and blindness of modern rationalism insofar as it denies its inheritance from premodern sources. This defense of the nation-state and critique of secular rationalism are of…
Stuck with Pride: Belated Reflections on Peter Lawler's Tocquevillean Greatness
"Stuck with Pride: Belated Reflections on Peter Lawler's Tocquevillean Greatness." Perspectives on Political Science, 47(1), pp. 19–20
Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
"Pierre Manent is one of France's leading political philosophers. This first English translation of his profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the nat…
Thinking, Acting, Flourishing: The Audacious Modesty of Pierre Manent’s Practical Natural Law
Pierre Manent's Natural Law and Human Rights is a brilliant contribution to the critique of the contemporary ideology of universal and ever-expanding “human rights” and of its foundations in the modern natural rights doctrine authored by Hobbes and prepared by Machiavelli. But Manent does not answer modern rationalism in the way we tend to expect. To open up the possibility of substantive goodness, he does not propose a new or restored theory or …
Restless Virtue: Greatness in Lawler, Tocqueville, Pascal
A central theme of Peter Lawler’s thought, and of his interpretation of Tocqueville in particular, is the tension between the classical, aristocratic idea of excellence and that of greatness understood as a kind of sublime anxiety, a restlessness that may characterize the democratic masses. His eloquent illustration of this connection is a permanent contribution, not only to Tocqueville studies, but to the task of political philosophy in the late…
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