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Regime and Education

A Study in the History of Political Philosophy

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Editors:
  1. Ian Dagg

    1. Political Science, University of Dallas, Irving, USA

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  • Introduces readers to the thought of a variety of political philosophers on education
  • Discusses the ways in which political orders and educational systems are intertwined
  • Draws together a variety of specialists on particular political philosophers

Part of the book series: Recovering Political Philosophy (REPOPH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Ian Dagg
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Limits of Regimes: Education and Character Formation in Xenophon’s Political Thought

    • Gregory A. McBrayer
    Pages 11-34

  4. The Beautiful and the False: An Introduction to Plato’s Hippias

    • Alex Priou
    Pages 35-52

  5. The Connection Between Moral Virtue and Politics in Aristotle’s Ethics

    • John Hungerford
    Pages 53-80

  6. Machiavelli’s Revolutionary Classical Education

    • John Peterson
    Pages 81-103

  7. Bacon’s Transformation of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Education of Bacon

    • Ian Dagg
    Pages 105-129

  8. Liberalism’s Approximation to the Rule of Wisdom

    • Cole Simmons
    Pages 131-157

  9. Education and Regime in Rousseau’s Social Contract

    • Ian Dagg
    Pages 159-184

  10. Tocqueville’s Defense of Aristocratic Literature

    • Antonio Sosa
    Pages 185-214

  11. Nietzsche and Political Education

    • Michael W. Grenke
    Pages 215-238

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 239-240
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About this book

This volume is an inquiry into the history of political philosophy by way of the general theme of education. Each contributor addresses the relationship between a particular political philosopher’s broad teaching on the best political order and that political philosopher’s teaching about education. The unifying contention of the work is that each political philosopher considered in the volume promotes a certain kind of political regime and therefore a particular mode of education essential to that regime. Each chapter, written by a separate contributor, is distinguished from the others primarily by the political philosopher being considered. The book has a chapter dedicated to each of the following political philosophers: Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Bacon, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and Nietzsche. The volume provides a survey of educational models by some of the greatest thinkers of the West, while continually demonstrating that the two themes of politics and educationare inseparable.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Political Science, University of Dallas, Irving, USA

    Ian Dagg

About the editor

Ian Dagg is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Dallas and Baylor University, USA. He received a doctoral degree from the University of Dallas in Philosophic Studies in Politics. He has published “Natural Religion in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters and The Spirit of the Laws” as well as a Review Essay of On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life by Heinrich Meier translated by Robert Berman in Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. His dissertation is Bad Beginnings, Failed Attempts to Control Convention, and Political Concessions: An Analysis of Plato’s Laws.

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