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Now greatly expanded in its third edition,
is ideal for survey courses in political philosophy. Offering unprecedented coverage from antiquity to the present, this historically organized collection presents the most significant works from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy. 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.
moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle,
) through the medieval period (Augustine, Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes,
Locke,
, Rousseau, Hume, Adam Smith, Kant, Hamilton and Madison,
). The book includes work from major nineteenth-century thinkers (Hegel, Marx and Engels, Mill,
) and twentieth-century theorists (
Taylor, Rawls,
Nozick, Foucault, Habermas, Held,
) and also presents a variety of notable documents and addresses, including The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, and speeches by Abraham Lincoln, John Dewey, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
the third edition also includes the complete text of Mill’s
an excerpt from Rawls’s
and expanded selections from Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and
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