Minerva's Owl :
Abramson, Jeffrey B.
Minerva's Owl : The Tradition of Western Political Thought / Jeffrey Abramson. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 2009. - 388 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780674032651 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008043390
Political science--History.
JA81 / .A32 2009
320.09 / ABR
Minerva's Owl : The Tradition of Western Political Thought / Jeffrey Abramson. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 2009. - 388 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780674032651 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008043390
Political science--History.
JA81 / .A32 2009
320.09 / ABR