ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the change in the philosophical understanding of the nature of politics and the goals of political thought, and relates it to the unchanged presupposition of the doctrinal conditional deduction (DCD) method and the Isocratic idea of the subordinate nature of education. Political philosophers have long recognized that "The founder of modern political philosophy is Machiavelli". Machiavelli's break with classical political thought is grounded in his rejection of the classical conception of nature. Machiavelli's rejection of both the classical conception of nature and of the relationship between nature and political aspiration is developed in terms of a new conception of the ends of political life. Locke himself explicitly connects his educational philosophy to his political philosophy. Locke explicitly presents his major educational treatise, Thoughts Concerning Education, as a text intended to serve prior political intentions. The educational and political thought of Rousseau was a response to Plato and Locke.
