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Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: ANCIENT SCIENCE, NATURAL TELEOLOGY, AND THE ORDER OF POLITICS
Chapter 1 The Polis Philosophers
Chapter 2 The Immortality of the Soul and the Origin of the Cosmos in Plato’s Phaedo
Chapter 3 Plato’s Science of Living Well
Chapter 4 Understanding Aristotle’s Politics through Form and Matter
PART II: HEAVENLY PERFECTION AND PSYCHIC HARMONY
Chapter 5 Making “Men See Clearly”: Physical Imperfection and Mathematical Order in Ptolemy’s Syntaxis
Chapter 6 Realism and Liberalism in the Naturalistic-Psychological Roots of Averroës’s Critique of Plato’s Republic
Part III: SKEPTICISM, MECHANISM, AND THE NEW POLITICS
Chapter 7 Skepticism, Science, and Politics in Montaigne’s Essays
Chapter 8 Parmenidean Intuitions in Descartes’s Theory of the Heart’s Motion
Chapter 9 Hobbes’s Natural Condition and his Natural Science of the Mind in Leviathan
Chapter 10 Hobbes and Aristotle: Science and Politics
Chapter 11 From Metaphysics to Ethics and Beyond: Hobbes’s Reaction to Aristotelian Essentialism
Chapter 12 Hobbes and Aristotle on Biology, Reason, and Reproduction
Part IV: THE SCIENTIFIC ROOTS OF LIBERALISM AND CONTEMPORARY “BIOPOLITICS”
Chapter 13 Locke and the Problematic Relation between Natural Science and Moral Philosophy
Chapter 14 Rousseau’s Botanical-Political Problem: On the Nature of Nature and Political Philosophy
Chapter 15 Contrasting Biological and Humanistic Approaches to the Evolution of Political Morality
Dialogue of the Sciences and the Humanities
Notes on Contributors
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