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Political Philosophy : The Essential Texts

by Steven M. Cahn

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2nd

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9780195396614

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0195396618

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1/26/2010

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Oxford University Press, USA

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Bold=New to this edition 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. In addition to the new selections noted above in bold, the second edition also includes more essays from Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Smith, Hamilton and Madison, Kant, and Mill. An especially valuable feature of this volume is that the works of each author are introduced with an engaging essay by a leading contemporary authority. These introductions include Richard Kraut on Plato and Aristotle; Paul J. Weithman on Augustine and Aquinas; Roger D. Masters on Machiavelli; Jean Hampton on Hobbes; 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; Paul Guyer on Kant; Steven B. Smith on Hegel; Richard Miller on Marx and Engels; Jeremy Waldron on Mill; Thomas Christiano on Nozick; Robert B. Talisse on Taylor; Thomas A. McCarthy on Foucault and Habermas; and Cheshire Calhoun on Held.

New to this edition
Preface
Plato
Introduction
Defence of Socrates
Crito
The Republic
Aristotle
Introduction
Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
Augustine
Introduction
The City of God
Thomas Aquinas
Introduction
Summa Theologiae
Niccoló Machiavelli
Introduction
The Prince
Discourses
Thomas Hobbes
Introduction, Jean Hampton
Leviathan
John Locke
Introduction
Second Treatise of Government
Letter Concerning Toleration
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Introduction
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Of the Social Contract
David Hume
Introduction
A Treatise of Human Nature
Of Parties in General
Of the Original Contract
Adam Smith
Introduction
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The Wealth of Nations
Alexander Hamilton And James Madison
Introduction
The Federalist Papers (additional essays)
Immanuel Kant
Introduction
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
On the Common Saying: "This May Be True in Theory but It Does Not Apply in Practice"
Perpetual Peace
Introduction
The Philosophy of Right
The Philosophy of History
Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels
Introduction
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
The German Ideology
Manifesto of the Communist Party
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
John Stuart Mill
Introduction
Utilitarianism
On Liberty
Considerations on Representative Government
The Subjection of Women
John Rawls
Introduction
A Theory of Justice
Robert Nozick
Introduction
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Charles Taylor
Introduction
Atomism
Michel Foucault
Introduction
Power/Knowledge
Jã£rgen Habermas
Introduction
Three Normative Models of Democracy
On the Internal Relation Between the Rule of Law and Democracy
Virginia Held
Introduction
Non-contractual Society: A Feminist View
Documents And Addresses
Pericles
Funeral Oration
Edmund Burke
Speech to the Electors of Bristol
The Declaration Of Independence
The Constitution Of The United States
The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of The Citizen
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address
Second Inaugural Address
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Solitude of Self
The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from a Birmingham City Jail
The March on Washington Address
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