Political philosophy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Steven B., 1951-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
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.