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Political philosophy
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Title
Political philosophy [electronic resource] / Steven B. Smith.
ISBN
0300189133
1283656523
6613969028
9780300189131
9781283656528
9786613969026
0300181809
9780300181807
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? How should conflict be controlled? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most enduring problems that every society confronts, regardless of time and place. Today we ask the same crucial questions about law, authority, justice, and freedom that Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville faced in previous centuries.
Variant and related titles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Smith, Steven B., 1951- Political philosophy. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 08, 2019
Series
The open Yale courses series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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