Political philosophy
By: Steven B. Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780300181807
Subjects: Philosophy; Political science; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Why political philosophy?; title: Antigone and the politics of conflict; title: Socrates and the examined life; title: Plato on justice and the human good; title: Aristotle's science of regime politics; title: The politics of the Bible; title: Machiavelli and the art of political founding; title: Hobbes's new science of politics; title: Locke and the art of constitutional government; title: Rousseau on civilization and its discontents; title: Tocqueville and the dilemmas of democracy; title: In defense of patriotism.