Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought () von Christopher Lynch

Introduction
Christopher Lynch andJonathan Marks

Part I. Principle and Prudence in “Athens” and “Jerusalem”

1. Machiavelli and Homer on the Man and the Beast
Peter J. Ahrensdorf

2. Practice and Principles in Ancient Statesmanship
Richard S. Ruderman

3. Weaponizing Words: Some Pathologies of Strategic Communication in Thucydides’Peloponnesian War
Karl Walling

4. “And God Led Them Not by the Way of the Philistines”: Principles, Practice, and Prudence in the Torah
Hillel Fradkin

5. The Wedding ofLogos andErgon: Josephus’s Defense of the Torah inAgainst Apion
Clifford Orwin

Part II. Principle and Prudence in Modern Political Thought

6. Machiavelli’s Literary Self-Portraits:Clizia, theDiscourses, Alternating Epochs, and the Pursuit of Fame
Vickie Sullivan

7. Principle and Practice in Locke’sSome Thoughts Concerning Education
Jonathan Marks

8. Montesquieu’s Legislator: Putting Order in the Laws
Diana J. Schaub

9. On the Lawgiver: Rousseau’s Articulation of the Political Problem
Heinrich Meier

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

11. Principle and Practice in Hegel’s Critique of Rousseau
Paul Franco

Part III. Principle and Prudence in American Political Thought

12. Principle and Prudence: The Use of Force from the Founders’ Perspective (1984)
Nathan Tarcov

13. Jefferson’s “Summary View” Reviewed, Yet Again
Ralph Lerner

14. Lincoln’s Enlightenment
Steven B. Smith

Part IV. Principle and Prudence in the Thought of Leo Strauss

15. Strauss on the Theoretical and Practical Origins of Philosophy
Svetozar Minkov

16. The Prudence of Philosophic Politics: Leo Strauss’s “Introduction” toThoughts on Machiavelli
Christopher Lynch

17. Strauss’s Second Statement on Locke
Nasser Behnegar

18. Leo Strauss’s Nietzsche
Robert B. Pippin

List of Contributors
Index