Political philosophy /
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 crucia...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
Ã2012.
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| Series: | Open Yale Courses.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt32bv21 |
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.