On Humanity`s Intensive Introspection

Joseph Cropsey is Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science emeritus at the University of Chicago. His books include Plato’s World: Man’s Place in the Cosmos, Political Philosophy and the Issue of Politics, and Polity and Economy: An Interpretation of the Principles of Adam Smith. He also edited Hobbes’s A Dialogue Between A Philosopher and A Student of the Common Laws of England, Ancients and Moderns, and the History of Political Philosophy (with Leo Strauss).

• 1. Liberalism, Nature and Convention (1983)2. Liberalism, Self-Abnegation and Self-Assertion (1984)3. Providential Care for Democracy (1985)4. On the Mutual Compatibility of Democracy and Marxian Socialism (1986)5. Activity, Philosophy and the Open Society (1986)6. On the Dramatic End of Plato’s Socrates (1986)7. Religion, the Constitution, and the Enlightenment (1988)8. The Whole as Setting for Man: On Plato’s Timaeus (1990)9. On Pleasure and the Human Good: Plato’s Philebus (1990)10. On Ancients and Moderns (1990)11. The End of History in the Open-ended Age? The Life Expectancy of Self-evident Truth (1995)12. Nature, God, and the Enlightenment: What Is at Work in the Whole (2004)