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Lee Trepanier is Chair and Professor of the Political Science Department at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama and former editor-in-chief of VoegelinView (2016-21). He is author and editor of several books and editor of Lexington Books series Politics, Literature, and Film (2013-present).

Natural Law

Natural law is both a moral and legal theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and therefore has validity everywhere.…

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Reason’s Dark Champions

Reason's Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument. Christopher W. Tindale. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2010.    Christopher W. Tindale’s book traces the reputation,…

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Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.) was a late, Roman Stoic who contributed to the concept of a cosmopolitan community governed by a global ethics. As…

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) was the Roman philosopher who erected the basic conceptual framework of the “law of nations” which has influenced subsequent international law, theory,…

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Ideology

An ideology is a set of beliefs and expressions that present, interpret, and evaluate the world in a way designed to organize, mobilize, and justify social and…

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