Political philosophy /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Open Yale courses series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Why political philosophy?
- Antigone and the politics of conflict
- Socrates and the examined life
- Plato on justice and the human good
- Aristotle's science of regime politics
- The politics of the Bible
- Machiavelli and the art of political founding
- Hobbes's new science of politics
- Locke and the art of constitutional government
- Rousseau on civilization and its discontents
- Tocqueville and the dilemmas of democracy
- In defense of patriotism.