Political philosophy : the essential texts

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Political philosophy : the essential texts

edited by Steven M. Cahn

Oxford University Press, 2011

2nd ed

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Now greatly expanded in its second edition, Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts is ideal for survey courses in social and political philosophy. Offering coverage from antiquity to the present, this historically organized collection presents the most significant works from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy. It moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle) through the medieval period (Augustine, Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Smith, Hamilton and Madison, Kant). The book includes work from major nineteenth-century thinkers (Hegel, Marx and Engels, Mill) and twentieth-century theorists (Rawls, Nozick, Charles Taylor, Foucault, Habermas, Virginia Held) and also presents a variety of notable documents and addresses, including The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and speeches by Pericles, Edmund Burke, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The readings are substantial or complete texts, not fragments.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Plato
  • 2. Aristotle
  • 3. Augustine
  • 4. Thomas Aquinas
  • 5. Niccolo Machiavelli
  • 6. Thomas Hobbes
  • 7. John Locke
  • 8. Jean-Jacques Rosseau
  • 9. David Hume
  • 10. Adam Smith
  • 11. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
  • 12. Immanuel Kant
  • 13. GWF Hegel
  • 14. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • 15. John Stuart Mill
  • 16. John Rawls
  • 17. Robert Nozick
  • 18. Charles Taylor
  • 19. Michel Foucault
  • 20. Jurgen Habermas
  • 21. Viginia Held

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