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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Steven B., 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, Ã2012.
Series:Open Yale Courses.
Subjects:
Political science > Philosophy > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Political science > Philosophy
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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