4 Beyond Plato’s Tragic Republic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: The Canon of Political Thought 1
4. 1 Plato’s Republic: The Debate over Justice Begins 17
5. 2 The Students Revolt against Utopia 36
6. 3 Out of the Cave and into the Light—and Back Again? 61
7. 4 Beyond Plato’s Tragic Republic 83
8. 5 Aristotle’s Ethics: The Habits of Virtue 87
9. 6 Aristotle’s Politics: Severed Hands and Political Animals 105
10. 7 Augustine and the Problem of Evil 126
11. 8 Machiavelli’s Dirty Hands 145
12. 9 Hobbes and the Kingdom of Means 169
13. 10 Locke, Liberalism, and the Possessive Life 197
14. 11 Rousseau and the Rustic 222
15. 12 Rousseau and the Political 243
16. 13 Kant’s Crooked Timber 258
17. 14 John Stuart Mill and the Demands of Individuality 279
18. 15 Hegel, Marx, and the Owl of Minerva 301
19. 16 The Revival of Political Theory 322
20. Conclusion: The Passion for Politics 345
21. Notes 353
22. Acknowledgments 377
23. Index 379