10 David Hume on Principle, Nature, and the Indirect Influence of Philosophy

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Principle and Prudence in “Athens” and “Jerusalem”
5. Machiavelli and Homer on the Man and the Beast 15
6. Practice and Principles in Ancient Statesmanship 33
7. Weaponizing Words 51
8. “And God Led Them Not by the Way of the Philistines” 71
9. The Wedding of Logos and Ergon 91
10. Principle and Prudence in Modern Political Thought
11. Machiavelli’s Literary Self-Portraits 113
12. Principle and Practice in Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education 133
13. Montesquieu’s Legislator 151
14. On the Lawgiver 171
15. David Hume on Principle, Nature, and the Indirect Influence of Philosophy 191
16. Principle and Practice in Hegel’s Critique of Rousseau 209
17. Principle and Prudence in American Political Thought
18. Principle and Prudence 237
19. Jefferson’s “Summary View” Reviewed, Yet Again 257
20. Lincoln’s Enlightenment 275
21. Principle and Prudence in the Thought of Leo Strauss
22. Strauss on the Theoretical and Practical Origins of Philosophy 299
23. The Prudence of Philosophic Politics 319
24. Strauss’s Second Statement on Locke 339
25. Leo Strauss’s Nietzsche 357
26. Contributors 379
27. Index 383