Michael L. Palmer

Masters and Slaves

Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays sheds light on the writings of leading figures in the history of political philosophy by exploring a nexus of questions concerning mastery and slavery in the human soul. To this end, Masters and Slaves elucidates archetypal human alternatives in their import for political life: the philosopher and king; the lover of wisdom and the lover of glory; the king and the tyrant; and finally, the master and the slave.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 146mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780739102770
• ISBN-10: 073910277X
• Artikelnr.: 38495892

Autorenporträt

Michael Palmer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. He is the author of Love of Glory and the Common Good: Aspects of the Political Thought of Thucydides (1992), and coeditor of Political Philosophy and the Human Soul: Essays in Memory of Allan Bloom (with Thomas L. Pangle).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Mastering Slaves or Mastering Science?: An Aristotelian Reprise
Chapter 2 Kings, Philosophers, and Tyrants in Plato's Republic Chapter 3
Alcibiades and the Question of Tyranny in Thucydides Chapter 4 Thucydides
on Ambition to Rule Chapter 5 Machiavellian virtù and Thucydidean arete:
Moderation and the Common Good Chapter 6 Machiavelli's Inhuman Humanism in
The Prince Chapter 7 The Master Fool: The Conspiracy of Machiavelli's
Mandragola Chapter 8 Hobbesian and Thucydidean Realism Chapter 9 The
Citizen Philosopher: Rousseau's Dedicatory Letter to the Discourse on
Inequality Chapter 10 On Leo Strauss's Jerusalem and Athens Chapter 11 On
George Grant's English-Speaking Justice Chapter 12 On Allan Bloom's The
Closing of the American Mind