Political Philosophy The Essential Texts

by Cahn, Steven M.

• ISBN13: 9780195177084
• ISBN10: 0195177088
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Ideal for survey courses in social and political philosophy, this volume is a substantially abridged and slightly altered version of Steven M. Cahn's Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy (OUP, 2001). Offering coverage from antiquity to the present, Political Philosophy: The EssentialTexts is a historically organized collection of the most significant works from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy. It moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle) through the medieval period (Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Adam 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, Foucault, Habermas, Nussbaum) and also presents a variety of notable documents and addresses, including the Declaration ofIndependence, the Bill of Rights, and speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther 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 an engaging essay by a leading contemporary authority. These introductions include Richard Kraut on Plato and Aristotle; Paul J. Weithman on Aquinas; Roger D. Masters on Machiavelli; Jean Hamptonon Hobbes; A. John Simmons on Locke; Joshua Cohen on Rousseau and Rawls; Donald W. Livingston on Hume; Charles L. Griswold, Jr., on Adam 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; ThomasChristiano on Nozick; Thomas A. McCarthy on Foucault and Habermas; and Eva Feder Kittay on Nussbaum.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Plato
Introduction	1	(4)
Richard Kraut
*Defence of Socrates	5	(17)
*Crito	22	(9)
Republic	31	(98)
Aristotle
Introduction	129	(4)
Richard Kraut
Politics	133	(36)
Thomas Aquinas
Introduction	169	(4)
Paul J. Weithman
Summa Theologiae	173	(12)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Introduction	185	(3)
Roger D. Masters
The Prince	188	(14)
Discourses	202	(12)
Thomas Hobbes
Introduction	214	(3)
Jean Hampton
Leviathan	217	(26)
John Locke
Introduction
A. John Simmons	243	(3)
Second Treatise of Government	246	(28)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Introduction
Joshua Cohen	274	(4)
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality	278	(15)
Of the Social Contract	293	(28)
David Hume
Introduction	321	(4)
Donald W. Livingston
Of the Original Contract	325	(6)
Adam Smith
Introduction	331	(3)
Charles L. Griswold, Jr.
The Wealth of Nations	334	(16)
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
Introduction	350	(4)
Bernard E. Brown
The Federalist Papers	354	(22)
Immanuel Kant
Introduction	376	(3)
Paul Guyer
Perpetual Peace	379	(10)
G.W.F. Hegel
Introduction	389	(3)
Steven B. Smith
Philosophy of Right	392	(5)
Introduction to the Philosophy of History	397	(9)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Introduction	406	(4)
Richard Miller
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844	410	(7)
The German Ideology	417	(6)
Manifesto of the Communist Party	423	(12)
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy	435	(1)
John Stuart Mill
Introduction	436	(2)
Jeremy Waldron
On Liberty	438	(34)
John Rawls
Introduction	472	(5)
Joshua Cohen
A Theory of Justice	477	(15)
Robert Nozick
Introduction	492	(3)
Thomas Christiano
Anarchy, State, and Utopia	495	(13)
Michel Foucault
Introduction	508	(3)
Thomas A. McCarthy
Power/Knowledge	511	(13)
Jurgen Habermas
Introduction	524	(3)
Thomas A. McCarthy
*Three Normative Models of Democracy	527	(7)
*On the Internal Relation Between the Rule of Law and Democracy	534	(7)
Martha C. Nussbaum
Introduction	541	(4)
Eva Feder Kittay
*The Feminist Critique of Liberalism	545	(26)
Documents and Addresses
The Declaration of Independence	571	(2)
The Bill of Rights	573	(1)
Abraham Lincoln
Gettsyburg Address	574	(1)
Second Inaugural Address	575	(1)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
*Letter from a Birmingham City Jail	576	(10)
*The March on Washington Address	586