| Description |
xi, 588 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Unabridged selections -- Preface -- Plato -- Introduction, Richard Kraut -- Defence of Socrates -- Crito -- Republic -- Aristotle -- Introduction, Richard Kraut -- Politics -- Thomas Aquinas -- Introduction, Paul J. Weithman -- Summa Theologiae -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- Introduction, Roger D. Masters -- The Prince -- Discourses -- Thomas Hobbes -- Introduction, Jean Hampton -- Leviathan -- John Locke -- Introduction, A. John Simmons -- Second Treatise of Government -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Introduction, Joshua Cohen -- Discourse on the Origin of Inequality -- Of the Social Contract -- David Hume -- Introduction, Donald W. Livingston -- Of the Original Contract -- Adam Smith -- Introduction, Charles L. Griswold, Jr. -- The Wealth of Nations -- ALEXANDER HAMILTON and JAMES MADISON -- Introduction, Bernard E. Brown -- The Federalist Papers -- Immanuel Kant -- Introduction, Paul Guyer -- Perpetual Peace -- G.W.F. Hegel -- Introduction, Steven B. Smith -- Philosophy of Right -- The Philosophy of History -- KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS -- Introduction, Richard Miller -- 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, Jeremy Waldron -- On Liberty -- John Rawls -- Introduction, Joshua Cohen -- A Theory of Justice -- Robert Nozick -- Introduction, Thomas Christiano -- Anarchy, State, and Utopia -- Michel Foucault -- Introduction, Thomas A. McCarthy -- Power/Knowledge -- Jurgen Habermas -- Introduction, Thomas A. McCarthy -- Three Normative Models of Democracy -- On the Internal Relation Between the Rule of Law and Democracy -- Martha C. Nussbaum -- Introduction, Eva Feder Kittay -- The Feminist Critique of Liberalism -- Documents And Addresses -- The Declaration Of Independence -- The Bill Of Rights -- Abraham Lincoln -- Gettysburg Address -- Second Inaugural Address -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham City Jail -- The March on Washington Address |
| 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 Essential Texts is a historically organized collection of the most significant works from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy. It moves from classical thought through the medieval period (Aquinas) to modern perspectives. The book includes work from major nineteenth-century thinkers and twentieth-century theorists and also presents a variety of notable documents and addresses, including the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. The readings are substantial or complete texts, not fragments."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Political science -- Philosophy -- Textbooks.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Author |
Cahn, Steven M.
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| LC no. |
2004054722 |
| ISBN |
0195177088 paperback acid-free paper |
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