Scientific statesmanship, governance and the history of political philosophy [Texte imprimé] / edited by Kyriakos N. Demetriou and Antis Loizides

Notes bibliogr.

The platonic moment : political transpositions of power, reason, and ethics / John R. Wallach -- Political knowledge and human excellence in Aristotelian political science / Ryan Balot -- Cicero on expertise In governance / Walter Nicgorski -- Political wisdom and the city Of God : St. Augustine of Hippo / Miles Hollingworth -- Bringing morality down to Earth : Machiavelli's contribution to scientific statesmanship / Joseph V. Femia -- Hobbes and the science of metaphor / Victoria Kahn -- Montesquieu and the paradoxes of the art of statesmanship / Rebecca Kingston -- Kant and the moral politicians / Paul Guyer -- Adam Ferguson on human nature and enlightened governance / Alexander Broadie -- The American founders' new science of politics / Terence Ball -- Edmund Burke, the "science of man," and statesmanship / Daniel O'neill -- Scientific socialism : the case of Robert Owen / David Leopold -- Alexis de Tocqueville on science, statesmanship and political philosophy / Aristide Tessitore -- The rule of sociological method : Auguste Comte's positive politics before the Système de politique positive / Vincent Guillin -- Science and partisanship in Max Weber : a problematic distinction or a means of restraining professorial authority? / Peter Breiner