The key texts of political philosophy : an introduction / Thomas L. Pangle, Timothy W. Burns.
This book introduces readers to analytical interpretation of seminal writings and thinkers in the history of political thought, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Marx, and Nietzsche. Chronologically...
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Classical Political Philosophy. 1. Plato's Apology of Socrates; 2. Plato's Republic, book one; 3. Aristotle's Politics
- Part II: Biblical Political Theology. 4. The Bible; 5. St Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law
- Part III: Modern Political Philosophy. 6. Machiavelli's Discourses and Prince; 7. Bacon's New Atlantis; 8. Hobbes's Leviathan; 9. Locke's Second Treatise of Government; 10. Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
- Part IV: Modernity in Question. 11. Rousseau's First and Second Discourses; 12. Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto; 13. Tocqueville's Democracy in America; 14. Nietzsche and his Zarathustra.