TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abramson,Jeffrey B.
TI  - Minerva's Owl: The Tradition of Western Political Thought 
SN  - 9780674032651 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - JA81 .A32 2009
U1  - 320.09 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press, 2009
KW  - Political science
KW  - History
N1  - 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
ER  -