Article: Marshall, Terence. A la recherche de l'humanite. Science, poesie ou raison pratique dans la philosophie politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Strauss et James Madison.(Book review)

MARSHALL, Terence. A la recherche de l'humanite. Science, poesie ou raison pratique dans la philosophie politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Strauss et James Madison. Paris: Press Universitaires de France, 2009. vi + 418 pp. Paper, 32.00 [euro]--After he was condemned to death at the age of 70, Socrates chose to remain in the city of Athens even though he was given the opportunity to flee. The refusal to avail himself of this opportunity, as Leo Strauss once observed, was not based on "an appeal to a categorical imperative demanding passive obedience, without ifs and buts." Rather, Socrates' decision was based on a deliberation, on a prudential consideration of the ...

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