Scientific Statesmanship, Governance and the History of Political Philosophy
About this ebook
This edited book explores the relationship between political expertise, which is defined as "scientific statesmanship or governance," and political leadership throughout the history of ideas. An outstanding group of experts study and analyze the ideas of significant philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Kant, Burke, Comte, and Weber, among others. The contributors aim to interpret these thinkers’ approaches to "scientific statesmanship," deepening our understanding of the idea itself and decoding its theoretical complexities.
In the face of the ongoing crisis of the traditional party system and the eroding structures within the new cultural-financial and political environment in the era of globalization, tracing the connection between Plato’s idealist statesmanship to twentieth-century modernist politics is an important and ever-challenging enterprise; one that promises to interest scholars of the history of western political thought, philosophy, classics and the classical tradition, political science, and sociology.
About the author
Kyriakos N. Demetriou is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cyprus. His research interests are in the areas of the history of classical reception, nineteenth-century intellectual history, Platonic scholarship, and the history of historiography.
Antis Loizides is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cyprus. His research interests include British utilitarianism, the moral and political thought of John Stuart Mill and James Mill, social contract theories, happiness, justice, and liberty.
