Plato to NATO : studies in political thought
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Plato to NATO : studies in political thought
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 1995
Available at 4 libraries
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First published by BBC Books, 1984
Bibliography: p199-204
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A collection of 14 essays on political thought. They span thinkers such as Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Marx, and end with views of 20th-century philosophers such as Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt.
Table of Contents
- Plato - the search for an ideal form of state, Christopher Rowe
- Aristotle - ideals and realities, Peter Nicholson
- St Augustine - Christian political thought at the end of the Roman Empire, Janet Coleman
- St Thomas Aquinas - the state and morality, Antony Black
- Niccolo Machiavelli - the anatomy of political and military decadence, Sydney Anglo
- Jean Calvin - the disciplined commonwealth, Harro Hopfl
- Thomas Hobbes - the sceptical state, Richard Tuck
- John Locke - the politics of trust, John Dunn
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - moral decadence and the pursuit of liberty, Robert Wokler
- Adam Smith - the Enlightenment and the philosophy of society, John Robertson
- John Stuart Mill - the crisis of liberalism, John Gray
- Karl Marx - gravedigger of the capitalist class, Terrell Carver
- the moderns - liberalism revived, Alan Ryan
- the moderns - Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt - "critics of the present", Liam O'Sullivan.
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