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Index
Cover Title Copyright Contents Introduction Part I Principle and Prudence in “Athens” and “Jerusalem”
1 Machiavelli and Homer on the Man and the Beast
Notes
2 Practice and Principles in Ancient Statesmanship
The Enigma of the Statesman Neutrality or Compromise? A Role for Wisdom? Philosophy and Political Life Ambition and Its Place in Political Life The Rule of Law and Its Limits Conclusion Notes
3 Weaponizing Words: Some Pathologies of Strategic Communication in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War
Notes
4 “And God Led Them Not by the Way of the Philistines”: Principles, Practice, and Prudence in the Torah
Introduction Divine Prudence God’s Goals and His Prudence God’s Politics and His Prudence Abraham and God’s Prudence
5 The Wedding of Logos and Ergon: Josephus’s Defense of the Torah in Against Apion
Josephus as Apologist The Torah as a Regime Priests and Other Rulers Toward a Cold Priesthood Logos and Ergon Notes
Part II Principle and Prudence in Modern Political Thought
6 Machiavelli’s Literary Self-Portraits: Clizia, the Discourses, Alternating Epochs, and the Pursuit of Fame
Machiavelli’s Treatment of the Literary Life Alternating Epochs, Ancient Sources, and the Prologue of Clizia The Self Portrait Of Clizia The Self Portrait Of the Discourses Conclusion Notes
7 Principle and Practice in Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Notes
8 Montesquieu’s Legislator: Putting Order in the Laws
The Design of the Spirit The Laws and the Order of Things Notes
9 On the Lawgiver: Rousseau’s Articulation of the Political Problem
Notes
10 David Hume on Principle, Nature, and the Indirect Influence of Philosophy
I. Philosophic Sects and Philosophy II. The Epicurean, the Stoic, and the Platonist III. The Sceptic I IV. The Skeptic II V. Conclusion Notes
11 Principle and Practice in Hegel’s Critique of Rousseau
From Early Inspiration to the Fury of Destruction The Rational versus the General Will Adapting Rousseau Notes
Part III Principle and Prudence in American Political Thought
12 Principle and Prudence: The Use of Force from the Founders’ Perspective (1984)
Notes
13 Jefferson’s “Summary View” Reviewed, Yet Again
I. Resolved … II. Origins III. Oppression IV. Unkinging the King V. Jefferson’s End in View Notes
14 Lincoln’s Enlightenment
“All Nature … is a Mine” Labor and Education “Every Man Can Make Himself” Notes
Part IV Principle and Prudence in the Thought of Leo Strauss
15 Strauss on the Theoretical and Practical Origins of Philosophy
The “Natural World” vs. the Discovery of the Idea of Nature Natural Right and Providence The Conventionalists’ Critique of Justice, Law, and the Common Good Notes
16 The Prudence of Philosophic Politics: Leo Strauss’s “Introduction” to Thoughts on Machiavelli
Notes
17 Strauss’s Second Statement on Locke
Strauss’s Critique of von Leyden A Different Assessment of the Substantive Issues A Different Assessment of the Literary Issue Notes
18 Leo Strauss’s Nietzsche
The Problem: Philosophy and Religion The Problem of Plato Will to Power, Gods, and Devils The Nature of Nature Notes
List of Contributors Index Back Cover
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