Regime and Education: A Study in the History of Political Philosophy

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