Notes on Manent’s The City of Man, Chapter III, “The Economic System” by David Alexander 1 Where Montesquieu cautiously established the English experience as a […]
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Greek Discovery of Mind, Parmenides and Zeno, revised notes, 2nd ed.
Notes on Parmenides and Zeno Lonergan Institute for the “Good Under Construction” © 2016 Where Heraclitus emphasized process, Parmenides denied both multiplicity and motion. Though […]
Pierre Manent, City of Man, chapter 2, notes
Notes on Chapter 2 of Manent’s The City of Man “All literature, all philosophy, all history abounds with incentives to noble action, incentives which would […]
Pierre Manent’s Modern Liberty and Its Discontents, Summary
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Introduction, Pierre Manent’s Modern Liberty and Its Discontents
Notes on the Introduction to Modern Liberty and Its Discontents by Pierre Manent by David Alexander Daniel J. Mahoney locates Pierre Manent among “neoliberal” French […]
Discussion Seminar announcement: Understanding our contemporary political culture
Message from David Alexander: We cordially invite you to participate in a discussion group that will be reading through Catholic philosopher Pierre Manent’s book of […]