Natural Law And Political Realism In The History Of Political Thought: From The Sophists To Machiavelli

by Dyson, R. W.

• ISBN13: 9780820478241
• ISBN10: 0820478245
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-13
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

This is the first volume of a detailed history of the traditions of natural law and political realism in western political thought. It elucidates the ways in which the relation between politics and morality was understood by major thinkers from classical

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Chapter 1: Political Realism in Fifth-Century Athens: Origins and Rationale	1	(32)
Chapter 2: Plato's 'Republic': The Sovereignty of Philosophy	33	(34)
Chapter 3: Aristotle: The Ethical Necessity of Politics	67	(34)
Chapter 4: Stoicism: Equality, Cosmopolitanism and the Law of Right Reason	101	(36)
Chapter 5: The Transvaluation of Classical Anthropology	137	(30)
Chapter 6: The Augustinian Conception of Politics	167	(42)
Chapter 7: St Thomas Aquinas: The Recovery of Aristotle and the Rehabilitation of Politics	209	(36)
Chapter 8: Machiavelli: Virtu, Fortune and the Autonomy of Politics	245	(26)
Notes	271	(56)
Select Bibliography	327	(12)
Index	339