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Minerva's Owl : The Tradition of Western Political Thought / Jeffrey Abramson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 2009.Description: 388 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674032651 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 320.09 ABR
LOC classification:
  • JA81 .A32 2009
Contents:
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.
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Book - Borrowing Book - Borrowing Central Library First floor MERIC 320.09 ABR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 10029 Available 000019908
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-375) and index.

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.

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