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near fine dust-jacket, attractive black hardcover, very good. previous owner's name in ink: RK Faulkner, Boston College. BLITZ, MARK / KRISTOL, WILLIAM, ed. . Educating the prince: essays in honor of Harvey Mansfield. Edited by Mark Blitz and William Kristol. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, xii, 326pp., . CONTENTS: Virtue, modern and ancient / Mark Blitz -- How a liberal picks a fight: Marsilius of Padua and the singular cause of strife / John P. Gibbons -- Machiavelli and the foundations of modernity: a reading of chapter 3 of The prince / Nathan Tarcov -- Necessity, morality, Christianity / Ralph C. Hancock -- Metaphysics and religion: Francis Bacon's critique of the ancients / Jerry Weinberger -- "Christian kings' and "English Mercuries": Henry V and the classical tradition of manliness / Paul A. Cantor -- "Hobbes", Socinus", "Spinoza": esotericism and the atheist state in Pierre Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary / Kenneth R. Weinstein -- Rousseau on the problem of invisible government: the Discours sur l'économie politique / Clifford Orwin -- Rousseau, nationalism, and the politics of sympathetic identification / Arthur Melzer -- Kantian idealism / Susan Meld Shell -- Political philosophy and the religious issue: from the ancient regime to modern capitalism / Peter Minowitz. - Things which independent states may of right do / Jeremy Rabkin -- The common law spirit of the American Revolution / James R. Stoner, Jr. -- The federalist's unmixed republican government / David F. Epstein -- Responsibility in The federalist / Charles R. Kesler -- Abraham Lincoln and the spirit of American statesmanship / Glen E. Thurow -- Constitutional bureaucracy / R. Shep Melnick -- Separation of powers and contemporary politics: the case of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 / Jessica Korn -- The care of souls in a constitutional democracy: some lessons from Harvey Mansfield and Alexander Solzhenitsyn / Robert P. Kraynak -- Churchill's understanding of politics / James W. Muller. 9780742508279 ISBN 0742508277. Seller Inventory # 95394
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