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  • Chapter 14 - Cicero’s Republicanism

  • Edited by Jed W. Atkins, Duke University, North Carolina, Thomas Bénatouïl, Université de Lille
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy
    Published online:
    08 December 2021
    Print publication:
    16 December 2021, pp 215-230

  • Summary

    In the face of current perplexity and debate about the nature of the republican tradition, this chapter recalls and more fully recovers the republican aspects of Cicero’s political philosophy. The creators of the American Republic, especially John Adams, and many others including contemporary scholars, have looked to Cicero as a major figure, if not the founder, of the republican tradition. Analysis of Cicero’s definition of res publica provides the basis for an interpretation that at its core is consent, not necessarily formal and explicit, implying liberty. To be fully human is to be free, and to be free is to be a consenting partner in a political community that is just and at liberty to set its own course. A dynamism toward equality coupled with the necessary wisdom and virtue and their implication of inequality are also essential to Cicero’s republicanism. These essentials are to inform institutions and practices. The practical wisdom in institutions includes the rule of law, indirect rather than direct popular government, and mixed government. Roman (and thus Ciceronian) republicanism can be differentiated in some respects from that very self-conscious and much-heralded form of republicanism that developed in the America of John Adams.

  • DONALD P. KOMMERS: In Memoriam—1932–2018

  • Walter Nicgorski
  • Journal:
    The Review of Politics / Volume 81 / Issue 2 / Spring 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 April 2019, pp. 181-182
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  • 6 - Yves R. Simon: a philosopher's quest for science and prudence

  • Edited by Catherine H. Zuckert, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Book:
    Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    29 August 2011, pp 91-107

  • Summary

    Yves R. Simon is sometimes thought to be a rather obscure philosopher, who came somehow, as if it all dropped out of the sky one day, to write a remarkable book on democratic theory. Near the very end of his life, he appeared especially interested in protecting the sphere of practical judgment or prudence from both philosophy and social science. Simon provided some striking formulations that assist his readers in understanding this grand and significant set of relationships and how ultimate science, or metaphysics, can proceed. This chapter sketches Simon's understanding of the nature and object of philosophy, in fact of all science or rational learning. Yves Simon, who had rejected literary approaches to philosophy for system, rigor of demonstration, and assurance, seemed aware all along that the preparation for human action, for prudent human action, required more than the science of philosophy.

  • FREDERICK J. CROSSON

  • Walter Nicgorski
  • Journal:
    The Review of Politics / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / Spring 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 June 2010, pp. 185-187
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  • From the Editor

  • Walter Nicgorski
  • Journal:
    The Review of Politics / Volume 59 / Issue 4 / Fall 1997
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    05 August 2009, pp. 751-752
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  • The New Federalism and Direct Popular Election

  • Walter Nicgorski
  • Journal:
    The Review of Politics / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / January 1972
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 August 2009, pp. 3-15

  • Reforms usually spring from felt or threatened grievances, not from abstract considerations of institutional perfection. It is understandable then that Presidential election years regularly bring a renewal of more than ordinary interest in reforming the way the President is elected. Interest in reform of this kind was more widespread and intense than usual before and after the 1968 election. Changes have already been made in certain phases of the nomination processes of the major political parties. Nevertheless, the constitutional provisions and the laws governing the Presidential election itself remain unchanged. In 1969 and 1970, these provisions and laws were almost swept aside by a proposed constitutional amendment providing for direct popular election of the President.

  • Of Editors, New and Old

  • Walter Nicgorski
  • Journal:
    The Review of Politics / Volume 66 / Issue 1 / Winter 2004
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    05 August 2009, pp. 5-6
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  • Preface to this Special Issue

  • Kenneth L. Deutsch, Walter Nicgorski
  • Journal:
    The Review of Politics / Volume 53 / Issue 1 / Winter 1991
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    05 August 2009, pp. iii-x

  • Interest in Leo Strauss has grown considerably since his death in 1973. His incisive commentaries on the great texts of the Western political tradition have contributed to the revival of scholarly attention to the quarrels between Athens and Jerusalem, poetry and philosophy, the ancients and the moderns, the philosopher and the city as well as to the crisis of liberal democracy. Strauss's teachings that bear on the problem of liberal education have encouraged many of his students and others to write and speak boldly about “the closing of the American mind.”

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