The History of Political Theory: Ancient Greece to Modern America

by Sheldon, Garrett Ward

• ISBN13: 9780820423005
• ISBN10: 0820423009
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien. This book contains a concise presentation of the major political theories underlying the Western tradition and contemporary ideological debates in America and the world. From the Ancients, Plato and Aristotle, to contemporary Americans, Rawls, Nozick and Barber, the book examines each thinker's conception of Human Nature, Political Society and Social Ethics. Extensive excerpts from the original writings and their relation to American political principles distinguish this valuable text.

Table of Contents

Preface
Preface to the Second Printing
Introduction	p. 1
The Socratic Tradition	p. 9
Plato's Republic	p. 17
Aristotle	p. 25
Cicero	p. 39
St. Augustine	p. 45
St. Thomas Aquinas	p. 55
Machiavelli	p. 69
Thomas Hobbes	p. 79
John Locke	p. 91
Jean Jacques Rousseau	p. 105
Edmund Burke	p. 121
John Stuart Mill	p. 133
Karl Marx	p. 145
V. I. Lenin	p. 163
Sigmund Freud	p. 169
Giovanni Gentile	p. 179
Mihailo Markovic	p. 191
Hannah Arendt	p. 203
Robert Nozick	p. 211
John Rawls	p. 221
Benjamin Barber	p. 233
Conclusion: The Interplay of Political Theories in American Political Thought	p. 251
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