Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Texts xi
5. 1. Why Political Philosophy? 1
6. 2. Antigone and the Politics of Conflict 10
7. 3. Socrates and the Examined Life 20
8. 4. Plato on Justice and the Human Good 37
9. 5. Aristotle’s Science of Regime Politics 67
10. 6. The Politics of the Bible 89
11. 7. Machiavelli and the Art of Political Founding 109
12. 8. Hobbes’s New Science of Politics 140
13. 9. Locke and the Art of Constitutional Government 165
14. 10. Rousseau on Civilization and Its Discontents 189
15. 11. Tocqueville and the Dilemmas of Democracy 214
16. 12. In Defense of Patriotism 243
17. Notes 259
18. Index 271