Political Philosophy : The Essential Texts

by Cahn, Steven M.

• ISBN13: 9780195396614
• ISBN10: 0195396618
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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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