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Title Principle and prudence in Western political thought / edited by Christopher Lynch and Jonathan Marks.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss
SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Political science -- Philosophy.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Lynch, Christopher, 1963- editor.
Marks, Jonathan, 1969- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Principle and prudence in Western political thought 9781438461250 (DLC) 2015029670 (OCoLC)929331735
ISBN 9781438461267 electronic book
1438461267 electronic book
9781438461250
1438461259
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