This collection of essays sheds light on the writings of leading figures in the history of political philosophy by exploring a nexus of questions concerning mastery and slavery in the human soul. To this end, Masters and Slaves elucidates archetypal human alternatives in their import for political life: the philosopher and king; the lover of wisdom and the lover of glory; the king and the tyrant; and finally, the master and the slave.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Mastering Slaves or Mastering Science?: An Aristotelian Reprise Chapter 2 Kings, Philosophers, and Tyrants in Plato's Republic Chapter 3 Alcibiades and the Question of Tyranny in Thucydides Chapter 4 Thucydides on Ambition to Rule Chapter 5 Machiavellian virtù and Thucydidean arete: Moderation and the Common Good Chapter 6 Machiavelli's Inhuman Humanism in The Prince Chapter 7 The Master Fool: The Conspiracy of Machiavelli's Mandragola Chapter 8 Hobbesian and Thucydidean Realism Chapter 9 The Citizen Philosopher: Rousseau's Dedicatory Letter to the Discourse on Inequality Chapter 10 On Leo Strauss's Jerusalem and Athens Chapter 11 On George Grant's English-Speaking Justice Chapter 12 On Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind
