History of Political Philosophy
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History of Political Philosophy

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eBook - ePub

History of Political Philosophy

About this book

This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been expanded significantly to include both new and revised essays.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to the Third Edition
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Preface to the First Edition
  8. Introduction
  9. Thucydides by David Bolotin
  10. Plato by Leo Strauss
  11. Xenophon by Christopher Bruell
  12. Aristotle by Carnes Lord
  13. Marcus Tullius Cicero by James E. Holton
  14. St. Augustine by Ernest L. Fortin
  15. Alfarabi by Muhsin Mahdi
  16. Moses Maimonides by Ralph Lerner
  17. St. Thomas Aquinas by Ernest L. Fortin
  18. Marsilius of Padua by Leo Strauss
  19. Niccolo Machiavelli by Leo Strauss
  20. Martin Luther and John Calvin by Duncan B. Forrester
  21. Richard Hooker by Duncan B. Forrester
  22. Francis Bacon by Howard B. White
  23. Hugo Grotius by Richard H. Cox
  24. Thomas Hobbes by Laurence Berns
  25. Rene Descartes by Richard Kennington
  26. John Milton by Walter Berns
  27. Benedict Spinoza by Stanley Rosen
  28. John Locke by Robert A. Goldwin
  29. Montesquieu by David Lowenthal
  30. David Hume by Robert S. Hill
  31. Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Allan Bloom
  32. Immanuel Kant by Pierre Hassner
  33. William Blackstone by Herbert J. Storing
  34. Adam Smith by Joseph Cropsey
  35. The Federalist by Martin Diamond
  36. Thomas Paine by Francis Canavan, S.J.
  37. Edmund Burke by Harvey Mansfield, Jr.
  38. Jeremy Bentham and James Mill by Timothy Fuller
  39. Georg W. F. Hegel by Pierre Hassner translated by Allan Bloom
  40. Alexis De Tocqueville by Martin Zetterbaum
  41. John Stuart Mill by Henry M. Magid
  42. Karl Marx by Joseph Cropsey
  43. Friedrich Nietzsche by Werner J. Dannhauser
  44. John Dewey by Robert Horwitz
  45. Edmund Husserl by Richard Velkley
  46. Martin Heidegger by Michael Gillespie
  47. Epilogue: Leo Strauss and the History of Political Philosophy by Nathan Tarcov and Thomas L. Pangle
  48. Notes
  49. Index