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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主要作者: Smith, Steven B., 1951- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: New Haven : Yale University Press, Ã2012.
丛编:Open Yale Courses.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt32bv21
书本目录:
  • 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.