This volume is an inquiry into the history of political philosophy by way of the general theme of education. Each contributor addresses the relationship between a particular political philosopher’s broad teaching on the best political order and that political philosopher’s teaching about education. The unifying contention of the work is that each political philosopher considered in the volume promotes a certain kind of political regime and therefore a particular mode of education essential to that regime. Each chapter, written by a separate contributor, is distinguished from the others primarily by the political philosopher being considered. The book has a chapter dedicated to each of the following political philosophers: Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Bacon, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and Nietzsche. The volume provides a survey of educational models by some of the greatest thinkers of the West, while continually demonstrating that the two themes of politics and education are inseparable.
Author(s): Ian Dagg
Series: Recovering Political Philosophy
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Year: 2023
Language: English
Commentary: Philosophy//Political
Pages: ix; 240
City: Cham
Tags: Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Critical Theory; Political Science;
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
The Limits of Regimes: Education and Character Formation in Xenophon’s Political Thought
1 Introduction
2 The Limits of Regimes in the Case of Cyrus
3 Cyrus’s Persian Education
4 The Nobles’ Doubts and Cyrus’s Transformation of the Persian Regime
5 A Laconic Digression
6 Conclusion
The Beautiful and the False: An Introduction to Plato’s Hippias
1 Why Hippias?
2 The Beautiful and Its Lie
3 Hippias the Beautiful
4 Hippias the False
The Connection Between Moral Virtue and Politics in Aristotle’s Ethics
1 Introduction
2 Moral Virtue and the Question of Method
3 Moral Virtue’s Dependence on the Intellect
4 Prudence and Moral Virtue
5 Particulars and Universals in Practical Matters
6 Architectonic Prudence
7 The Transition to the Politics, Reconsidered
Machiavelli’s Revolutionary Classical Education
Bacon’s Transformation of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Education of Bacon
Liberalism’s Approximation to the Rule of Wisdom
1 Chapter 7: Absolute Rule
2 Book 8, the Rule of (Locke’s) Wisdom
3 The Regime’s Education
4 Part 1, Play and Habit
5 Part 2: Liberal Reverence (§§31–99) and Temper (§§100–133)
6 Part 3, The Good Man (§§134–216)
7 Conclusion
Education and Regime in Rousseau’s Social Contract
1 Politics and Slavery
2 The Direct Addressee
3 The “Scientific” Analysis of Regime
4 Elective Aristocracy Disguised
Tocqueville’s Defense of Aristocratic Literature
1 Aristocratic Literature and Democratic Man
2 The Poetic Ideal of Democratic Man
3 Plato’s Teaching on the Human Soul
4 Plato’s Teaching on Politics
5 The Recovery of Aristocratic Virtue
Nietzsche and Political Education
Index
