01912cam a2200265 a 4500 15493798 20091009113422.0 081022s2009 mau |rb 001 0 eng 2008043390 9780674032651 (cloth : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn261174523 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP C#P BWX YBM CDX VP@ NLGGC DLC JA81 .A32 2009 22 320.09 ABR Abramson, Jeffrey B. 11785 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. Political science History. 11786 ddc BB 13483 13483 0 0 ddc 0 0 MERIC MAIN MAIN 1ST 2010-02-24 purchase 201.60 10029 31 161 320.09 ABR 000019908 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2021-11-10 BB