Political Theory : Classic and Contemporary Readings Book

	Acknowledgments	iv
	Introduction	1
Part I	Greek Roots
	Introduction	9
	Thucydides	13
Chapter 1	Excerpts from History of the Peloponnesian War	17
Chapter 2	Thucydides on Human Nature	44
Chapter 3	The Melian Dialogue	52
	Plato	58
Chapter 4	Crito	62
Chapter 5	Excerpts from the Republic	70
Chapter 6	The Republic and the 'Limits of Politics'	84
Chapter 7	Response to Hall	95
	Aristotle	104
Chapter 8	Excerpts from Nicomachean Ethics	108
Chapter 9	Excerpts from the Politics	112
Chapter 10	The Puzzle of the Political Animal: Nature and Artifice in Aristotle's Political Theory	123
Chapter 11	An Ancient Framework for a New--and Old--Feminism	136
Part II	The Age of Empire--Civil and Religious
	Introduction	141
	Marcus Tullius Cicero	146
Chapter 12	Excerpts from On the Commonwealth	149
Chapter 13	Essentials of the Mixed Constitution	172
Chapter 14	Cicero's Focus: From the Best Regime to the Model Statesman	183
	Saint Augustine	198
Chapter 15	Excerpts from The City of God	201
Chapter 16	The Two Cities in Augustine's Political Philosophy	214
Chapter 17	The Earthly City and Its Discontents	223
	Saint Thomas Aquinas	239
Chapter 18	Excerpts from Summa Theologica	243
Chapter 19	Excerpts from On Kingship	256
Chapter 20	Law and Politics	258
Chapter 21	On Thomistic Natural Law: The Bad Man's View of Thomistic Natural Right	267
	Christine de Pizan	280
Chapter 22	Excerpts from The Book of the City of Ladies	283
Chapter 23	Excerpts from The Book of the Body Politic	293
Chapter 24	'Now a New Kingdom of Femininity Is Begun ...': The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies	303
Chapter 25	Polycracy, Obligation, and Revolt: The Body Politic in John of Salisbury and Christine de Pizan	317
Part III	Enter Modernity
	Introduction	329
	Niccolo Machiavelli	331
Chapter 26	Excerpts from The Prince	334
Chapter 27	Excerpts from the Discourses	341
Chapter 28	Introduction to The Prince	349
Chapter 29	Public Versus Private Claims: Machiavellianism from Another Perspective	358
	About the Editors	367
	About the Contributors	368