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Minerva's owl : the tradition of western political thought /
"Jeffrey Abramson argues politics with the classic writers and draws the reader into a spirited conversation, with contemporary examples that illustrate the enduring nature of political dilemmas. As the discussions deepen, the voices of Abramson's own teachers, and of the students he has t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The canon of political thought
- Plato's Republic: the debate over justice begins
- The students revolt against Utopia
- Out of the cave and into the light-and back again?
- Beyond Plato's tragic republic
- Aristotle's ethics: the habits of virtue
- Aristotle's politics: severed hands and political animals
- Augustine and the problem of evil
- Machiavelli's dirty hands
- Hobbes and the kingdom of means
- Locke, liberalism, and the possessive life
- Rousseau and the rustic
- Rousseau and the political
- Kant's crooked timber
- John Stuart Mill and the demands of individuality
- Hegel, Marx, and the owl of Minerva
- The revival of political theory
- Conclusion: The passion for politics.