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<span><span>This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of “humanity” through the history of political philosophy. </span></span>

<span><span>I. Ancient Inquiries into Humanity<br>1. Civilization and the Gods in the </span><span>Eumenides</span><span><br>By Mark J. Lutz<br>2. Philosophy and “Humanity”: Reflections on Thucydidean Piety, Justice, and Necessity<br>By Ryan Balot<br>3. Preliminary Observations on the Treaties in Thucydides’ Work<br>By Robert Howse and Noah Laurence<br>4. Reflections on the Humanity (and Inhumanity) of Thucydides<br>By S. N. Jaffe<br>5. The Spartan Alcibiades: Brasidas and the Prospect of Regime Change in Sparta in Thucydides’ </span><span>War</span><span><br>By Michael Palmer<br>6. The Tragedy of Demosthenes in Thucydides’ </span><span>Peloponnesian War</span><span><br>By Andrea Radasanu<br>7. Moral Indignation, Magnanimity, and Philosophy in the Trial of the Armenian King <br>By Lorraine Smith Pangle<br>8. Humanity and Divinity in Xenophon’s Defense of Socrates<br>By Thomas L. Pangle<br>9. Education after Freedom<br>By Michael S. Kochin<br><br>II. The Taming of Mother Teresa: From Charity to Modern Visions of Humanity <br>10. Martin Luther King, Augustine, and Civil Disobedience<br>By Timothy W. Burns<br>11. “</span><span>La Carità Propria</span><span>”</span><span> </span><span>and the Uncertain Foundations of Unarmed Principalities <br>By William B. Parsons Jr.<br>12. Machiavelli’s Humanity<br>By Nathan Tarcov<br>13. “Choice of Loss”: The Revaluation of Roman Values in Shakespeare’s </span><span>Antony and Cleopatra</span><span><br>By Paul A. Cantor<br>14. “When Vice Makes Mercy”: Classical, Christian, and Modern Humanism in Shakespeare’s </span><span>Measure for Measure</span><span>”<br>By L. Joseph Hebert, Jr.<br>15. “Tis charity to show”: Shakespeare’s Kindly Art in </span><span>The Taming of the Shrew</span><span><br>By Diana J. Schaub<br>16. New Virtues for Masters of Nature<br>By Henry Higuera<br>17. The Model of Human Nature and the Revision of Premises in Spinoza’s </span><span>Ethics</span><span><br>By Richard Velkley<br>18. Interpreting Honor Politically<br>By Ran Halévi<br><br>III. Compassion and the Angst of Late Modernity <br>19. Locke’s Compassion—and Rousseau’s<br>By Steven Forde<br>20. Rousseau’s Rome: How the Model of All Free Peoples Governed Themselves<br>By Bryan-Paul Frost<br>21. Rousseau and the Case for and against Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism<br>By Christopher Kelly<br>22. Hegel as Educator</span><span>: </span><span>Reading the </span><span>Phenomenology of Spirit</span><span> as a Pedagogical Classic<br>By Waller R. Newell<br>23. Reason, Will, and the Image of Humanity: The Criticism of Rationalism by Dostoevsky’s Underground Man and Nietzsche’s Zarathustra<br>By Jeffrey Metzger<br>24. Is It Possible to Reconcile Reason and Revelation? Their Mutual Relations in the Thought of Leo Strauss<br>By Kenneth Hart Green<br>25. History, Technology, and Justice: George Grant’s Discovery of Rousseau<br>By Hugh Donald Forbes<br>26. “Gods of Vengeance and Compassion”: The Withering Criticism of Compassion in Cormac McCarthy’s </span><span>Blood Meridian</span><span><br>By Brent Edwin Cusher<br><br>IV. Liberalism, Humanitarianism and Contemporary Affairs<br>27. Character vs. Free Will: Aristotle and Kant on Moral Responsibility<br>By Arthur M. Melzer<br>28. A Kantian Critique of “Public Reason”<br>By Susan Meld Shell<br>29. On the Uses and Abuses of the Notion of Sovereignty<br>By Miguel Morgado<br>30. Europe’s Democratic Odyssey<br>By Marc F. Plattner<br>31. Humane Warfare: An Ancient Perspective on a Modern Dilemma<br>By Linda R. Rabieh<br>32. A Polemic for Pedagogy? Or Socratic Pedagogy and Postmodern Partisanship in Liberal Education<br>By Michael Rosano</span></span>
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<span><span>Andrea Radasanu </span><span>is associate professor of political science at Northern Illinois University. </span></span>