Political philosophy Book

I. ANCIENT POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

Introduction. Xenophon, from Memorabilia. Plato, from Republic. Plato, from Statesman. Aristotle, from Politics.

II. MEDIEVAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

Introduction. Saint Augustine of Hippo, from The City of God. Saint Thomas Aquinas, from The Treatise on Law. Marsilius of Padua, from Defender of Peace.

III. MODERN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

Introduction. Niccolo Machiavelli, from The Prince. Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan. Baruch Spinoza, from The Theological-Political Treatise. John Locke, from Second Treatise on Government. David Hume, from A Treatise of Human Nature. Immanual Kant, from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from On the Social Contract. Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France. The Federalist Papers, numbers 10, 15, 31, 37, 49, 51. George Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel, from The Philosophy of Right. Karl Marx, Grundrisse. Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme. John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty. Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Thomas Hill Green, from Justice and the Common Good. Herbert Spencer, from Social Statics. Mikhail Bakunin, from God and the State.

IV. CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

Introduction. John Dewey, from Ethics. Benito Mussolini, from Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions. Vladimir Ilich Lenin, from On Soviet Socialist Democracy. Friedrich August von Hayek, from The Constitution of Liberty. Ayn Rand, Man's Rights. Leo Strauss, from What is Political Philosophy? John Rawls, from A Theory of Justice. Robert Nozick, from Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Murray N. Rothbard, Society Without a State. Susan Mendus, Liberal Man. Ronald Dworkin, from Taking Rights Seriously. Jurgen Habermas, from Justification and Application. Alison Jaggar, from Feminist Politics and Human Nature. Richard Rorty, from Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.