Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy

by Cahn, Steven M.

• ISBN13: 9780195140910
• ISBN10: 0195140915
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy provides in one volume the major writings from nearly 2,500 years of political and moral philosophy. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, it moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero) through medieval views (Augustine,Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Adam Smith, Kant). It includes major nineteenth-century thinkers (Hegel, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche) as well as twentieth-century theorists (Rawls, Nozick, Nagel, Foucault, Habermas, Nussbaum). Also included arenumerous essays from The Federalist Papers and a variety of notable documents and addresses, among them Pericles' Funeral Oration, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and speeches by Edmund Burke, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Dewey, and MartinLuther King, Jr. The readings are substantial or complete texts, not fragments. An especially valuable feature of this volume is that the works of each author are introduced with a substantive and engaging essay by a leading contemporary authority. These introductions include Richard Kraut on Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Cicero; Paul J. Weithman on Augustine andAquinas; Roger D. Masters on Machiavelli; Jean Hampton on Hobbes; Steven B. Smith on Spinoza and Hegel; A. John Simmons on Locke; Joshua Cohen on Rousseau and Rawls; Donald W. Livingston on Hume; Charles L. Griswold, Jr., on Smith; Bernard E. Brown on Hamilton and Madison; Jeremy Waldron on Benthamand Mill; Paul Guyer on Kant; Richard Miller on Marx and Engels; Richard Schacht on Nietzsche; Thomas Christiano on Nozick; John Deigh on Nagel; Thomas A. McCarthy on Foucault and Habermas; and Eva Feder Kittay on Nussbaum. Offering unprecedented breadth of coverage, Classics of Political and MoralPhilosophy is an ideal text for courses in social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, or surveys in Western civilization.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Plato
Introduction	1	(5)
Richard Kraut
Defence of Socrates	6	(17)
Crito	23	(9)
Republic	32	(136)
Statesman	168	(10)
Aristotle
Introduction	178	(4)
Richard Kraut
Nicomachean Ethics	182	(40)
Politics	222	(51)
Epicurus
Introduction	273	(2)
Richard Kraut
Letter to Menoeceus	275	(3)
Principal Doctrines	278	(2)
Cicero
Introduction	280	(4)
Richard Kraut
On the Republic	284	(7)
On the Laws	291	(5)
Augustine
Introduction	296	(4)
Paul J. Weithman
The City of God	300	(8)
Thomas Aquinas
Introduction	308	(4)
Paul J. Weithman
Summa Theologiae	312	(23)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Introduction	335	(4)
Roger D. Masters
The Prince	339	(20)
Discourses	359	(24)
Thomas Hobbes
Introduction	383	(3)
Jean Hampton
Leviathan	386	(55)
Baruch Spinoza
Introduction	441	(4)
Steven B. Smith
Theologico-Political Treatise	445	(11)
John Locke
Introduction	456	(5)
A. John Simmons
Second Treatise of Government	461	(45)
Letter Concerning Toleration	506	(7)
Jean-Jacques Rosseau
Introduction	513	(4)
Joshua Cohen
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality	517	(15)
Of the Social Contract	532	(35)
David Hume
Introduction	567	(4)
Donald W. Livingston
A Treatise of Human Nature	571	(37)
Of Parties in General	608	(3)
Of the Original Contract	611	(9)
Adam Smith
Introduction	620	(4)
Charles L. Griswold, Jr.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments	624	(9)
The Wealth of Nations	633	(19)
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
Introduction	652	(4)
Bernard E. Brown
The Federalist Papers	656	(52)
Jeremy Bentham
Introduction	708	(3)
Jeremy Waldron
Principles of Legislation	711	(20)
Immanuel Kant
Introduction	731	(6)
Paul Guyer
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals	737	(38)
On the Common Saying: ``This May Be True in Theory but It Does Not Apply in Practice''	775	(20)
G. W. F. Hegel
Introduction	795	(4)
Steven B. Smith
Philosophy of Right	799	(15)
The Philosophy of History	814	(13)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Introduction	827	(5)
Richard Miller
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844	832	(7)
The German Ideology	839	(9)
Manifesto of the Communist Party	848	(18)
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy	866	(2)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific	868	(22)
John Stuart Mill
Introduction	890	(3)
Jeremy Waldron
Utilitarianism	893	(34)
On Liberty	927	(61)
Considerations on Representative Government	988
The Subjection of Women	977	(35)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Introduction	1012	(5)
Richard Schacht
Human, All Too Human	1017	(4)
Those Spoke Zarathustra	1021	(2)
Beyond Good and Evil	1023	(5)
On the Genealogy of Morals	1028	(3)
Twilight of the Idols	1031	(3)
John Rawls
Introduction	1034	(4)
Joshua Cohen
A Theory of Justice	1038	(22)
Robert Nozick
Introduction	1060	(4)
Thomas Christiano
Anarchy, State, and Utopia	1064	(12)
Thomas Nagel
Introduction	1076	(4)
John Deigh
Equality and Partiality	1080	(19)
Michel Foucault
Introduction	1099	(3)
Thomas A. McCarthy
Power/Knowledge	1102	(13)
Jurgen Habermas
Introduction	1115	(3)
Thomas A. McCarthy
Three Normative Models of Democracy	1118	(7)
On the Internal Relation Between the Rule of Law and Democracy	1125	(7)
Martha C. Nussbaum
Introduction	1132	(4)
Eva Feder Kittay
The Feminist Critique of Liberalism	1136	(27)
DOCUMENTS AND ADDRESSES
Pericles
Funeral Oration	1163	(3)
Edmund Burke
Speech to the Electors of Bristol	1166	(2)
The Declaration of Independence	1168	(2)
The Constitution of the United States	1170	(13)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen	1183	(2)
Abraham Lincoln
First Inaugural Address	1185	(3)
Gettsyburg Address	1188	(1)
Second Inaugural Address	1189	(1)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Solitude of Self	1190	(6)
John Dewey
Democracy	1196	(4)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from a Birmingham City Jail	1200	(9)
The March on Washington Address	1209