| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
The open Yale courses series
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Open Yale Courses.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 crucial questions about law, authority, justice, and freedom that Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville faced in previous centuries. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political science -- Philosophy -- History.
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Political science -- Philosophy. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Steven B., 1951- Political philosophy. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012 9780300181807 (DLC) 2012016209 (OCoLC)785865154 |
| ISBN |
9780300189131 (electronic book) |
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0300189133 (electronic book) |
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1283656523 (electronic book) |
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9781283656528 (electronic book) |
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6613969028 (electronic book) |
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9786613969026 (electronic book) |
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9780300181807 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0300181809 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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