Contents

Preface

Texts

  1.   Why Political Philosophy?

  2.   Antigone and the Politics of Conflict

  3.   Socrates and the Examined Life

  4.   Plato on Justice and the Human Good

  5.   Aristotle’s Science of Regime Politics

  6.   The Politics of the Bible

  7.   Machiavelli and the Art of Political Founding

  8.   Hobbes’s New Science of Politics

  9.   Locke and the Art of Constitutional Government

10.   Rousseau on Civilization and Its Discontents

11.   Tocqueville and the Dilemmas of Democracy

12.   In Defense of Patriotism

Notes

Index