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Political philosophy
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Political philosophy
AUTHOR:
Smith, Steven B., 1951-
ISBN:
9780300181807
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xi, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
SERIES:
The open Yale courses series

Open Yale courses series.
SERIES_TITLE:
The open Yale courses series

Open Yale courses series.
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.
SUBJECT:
Political science -- Philosophy -- History.