Minerva's Owl: The Tradition of Western Political Thought

by Jeffrey Abramson and Jeffrey B. Abramson

Book Overview

Informal in tone yet serious in content, this book serves as a lively and accessible guide for readers discovering the tradition of political thought that dates back to Socrates and Plato. Because the arguments of the great philosophers are nearly eternal, even those long schooled on politics will find that this book calls on recurring questions about morality and power, justice and war, the risk of democracy, the necessity for evil, the perils...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674057023
• ISBN13: 9780674057029
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.1"