Principle and prudence in Western political thought /
[Book]
edited by Christopher Lynch and Jonathan Marks.
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2016.
1 online resource
SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machiavelli and Homer on the man and the beast / Peter J. Ahrensdorf -- Practice and principles in ancient statesmanship / Richard S. Ruderman -- Weaponizing words : some pathologies of strategic communication in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War / Karl Walling -- "And God led them not by the way of the Philistines" : principles, practice, and prudence in the Torah -- Hillel Fradkin -- The wedding of Logos and Ergon : Josephus's defense of the Torah in Against Apion / Clifford Orwin -- Machiavelli's literary self-portraits : Clizia, the Discourses, alternating epochs, and the pursuit of fame / Vickie Sullivan -- Principle and practice in Locke's Some thoughts concerning education / Jonathan Marks -- Montesquieu's Legislator : putting order in the laws / Diana J. Schaub -- On the Lawgiver : Rousseau's articulation of the political problem / Heinrich Meier -- David Hume on principle, nature, and the indirect influence of philosophy / Richard Velkley -- Principle and practice in Hegel's critique of Rousseau / Paul Franco -- Principle and prudence : the use of force from the founders' perspective / Nathan Tarcov -- Jefferson's "Summary view" reviewed, yet again / Ralph Lerner -- Lincoln's Enlightenment / Steven B. Smith -- Strauss on the theoretical and practical origins of philosophy / Svetozar Minkov -- The prudence of philosophic politics : Leo Strauss's "Introduction" to Thoughts on Machiavelli / Christopher Lynch -- Strauss's second statement on locke / Nasser Behnegar -- Leo Strauss's Nietzsche / Robert B. Pippin.
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