Political Realism and Wisdom 1st ed. 2015 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Andras Lanczi is a political philosopher and Director of the Institute of Political Science and Philosophy at Corvinus University, USA, Budapest. Among his books published in Hungarian are On Political Knowledge, Fate-legacy, Tradition and Modernity in Leo Strauss's Political Philosophy, Democracy and Political Science, Political Philosophy of the 20th Century. He is also active in the revival of the Hungarian and European conservative political thought."Table of Contents: 1. What is Political Realism?2. The Moral Foundations of Today's Democracies: Rationality, Faith and Realism in Politics3. Intellectuals, Cynicism and Reality4. Evil and History5. Love of Wisdom Crisis of Philosophy. Rifts in Western Culture. 6. Manners and Laws: Could a Global State be a Republic?7. Leo Strauss a Political Realist8. Conclusion, or when Face-book is your only friend"