Preface
Why political philosophy?
Antigone and the politics of conflict
Socrates and the examined life
Plato on justice and the human good
Aristotle's science of regime politics
The politics of the Bible
Machiavelli and the art of political founding
Hobbes's new science of politics
Locke and the art of constitutional government
Rousseau on civilization and its discontents
Tocqueville and the dilemmas of democracy
In defense of patriotism.
Political philosophy by Steven B. Smith. ISBN 9780300181807. Published by Yale University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.