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Summary:

"This book introduces readers to analytical interpretation of seminal writings and thinkers in the history of political thought, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Marx, and Nietzsche. Chronologically arranged, each chapter in the book is devoted to the work of a single thinker. The selected texts together engage with 2000 years of debate on fundamental questions including: what is the purpose of political life? What is justice? What is a right? Do human beings have rights? What kinds of human virtues are there and which regimes best promote them? The difficulty of accessing the texts included in this volume is the result not only of their subtlety but also of the dramatic change in everyday life. The authors shed light on the texts' vocabulary and complexities of thought and help students understand and weigh the various interpretations of each philosopher's thought"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Classical Political Philosophy. 1. Plato's Apology of Socrates; 2. Plato's Republic, book one; 3. Aristotle's Politics
• Part II: Biblical Political Theology. 4. The Bible; 5. St Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law
• Part III: Modern Political Philosophy. 6. Machiavelli's Discourses and Prince; 7. Bacon's New Atlantis; 8. Hobbes's Leviathan; 9. Locke's Second Treatise of Government; 10. Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
• Part IV: Modernity in Question. 11. Rousseau's First and Second Discourses; 12. Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto; 13. Tocqueville's Democracy in America; 14. Nietzsche and his Zarathustra.

Author/Creator:

Pangle, Thomas L. , author

Contributors:

Burns, Timothy, 1958- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The key texts of political philosophy: an introduction [by Pangle, T.L.]

Subjects:

Political science — Philosophy

Political science

General Notes:

Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 435 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JA71 .P3383 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781107006072 (hardback)
1107006074 (hardback)
9780521185004 (paperback)
0521185009 (paperback)
1316055892 (electronic bk.)
9781316055892 (electronic bk.)
1139047558
9781139047555

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2014015719

OCLC Numbers:

1097143612
881207701 [Invalid]