Scientific Statesmanship, Governance and the History of Political Philosophy /
[Book]
edited by Kyriakos N. Demetriou and Antis Loizides.
Abingdon, Oxon [UK] :
Routledge,
2015.
1 online resource
Routledge innovations in political theory ;
61
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Platonic Moment: Political Transpositions of Power, Reason, and Ethics; 2 Political Knowledge and Human Excellence in Aristotelian Political Science; 3 Cicero on Expertise in Governance; 4 Political Wisdom and the City of God: St. Augustine of Hippo ; 5 Bringing Morality Down to Earth: Machiavelli's Contribution to Scientific Statesmanship; 6 Hobbes and the Science of Metaphor; 7 Montesquieu and the Paradoxes of the Art of Statesmanship; 8 Kant and the Moral Politicians ; 9 Adam Ferguson on Human Nature and Enlightened Governance.
10 The American Founders' New Science of Politics11 Edmund Burke, the ""Science of Man, "" and Statesmanship; 12 Scientific Socialism: The Case of Robert Owen; 13 Alexis De Tocqueville on Science, Statesmanship, and Political Philosophy; 14 The Rule of Sociological Method: Auguste Comte's Positive Politics Before the Système de Politique Positive; 15 Science and Partisanship in Max Weber: A Problematic Distinction or a Means of Restraining Professorial Authority?; Contributors; Index.
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Over the centuries, the question of ""good"" or ""effective"" governance has undergone several transformations and ramifications to fit within certain social, cultural and historical contexts. What defines political knowledge? What is the measure of expert political leadership? Various interpretations, perspectives, and re-conceptualizations emerge as one moves from Plato to the present. This edited book explores the relationship between political expertise, which is defined as ""scientific statesmanship or governance, "" and political leadership throughout the history of ideas. An outstanding.
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Scientific Statesmanship, Governance and the History of Political Philosophy.