These essays are designed for students of political philosophy who are approaching the great texts of the past for the first time. Intended to help students find their way into the texts and get the most from them, while encouraging further exploration, the essays offer selective interpretation of setting, form, and content in clear, straightforward language. Texts discussed are Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Augustine's City of God, Machiavelli's Prince and Discourses, Hobbes's Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise of Government, and Rousseau's Social Contract.
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"Well conceived and written. A commendable focus on selected texts and the bibliography is very useful."--Noel B. Reynolds, Brigham Young University
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Murray Forsyth and Maurice Keens-Soper are both at the University of Leicester.
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PHILOSOPHY began in classical Greece and reached its first splendid climax in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
civil philosophy, ruling offices, philosopher guardians, desiring part, natural society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second Treatise, City of God, New York, Heavenly City, Roman Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, Two Treatises, First Treatise, Maurice Cranston, The Elements of Law, French Revolution, Nevertheless Machiavelli, Old Testament, Political Studies New!
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PHILOSOPHY began in classical Greece and reached its first splendid climax in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
civil philosophy, ruling offices, philosopher guardians, desiring part, natural society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second Treatise, City of God, New York, Heavenly City, Roman Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, Two Treatises, First Treatise, Maurice Cranston, The Elements of Law, French Revolution, Nevertheless Machiavelli, Old Testament, Political Studies New!
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- The Social Contract (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on 20 pages
- Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau by John Locke on 19 pages
- The Prince and The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli on 4 pages
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on page 34, and page 61
- The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle on page 44, and page 61
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- Humanity, Freedom And Feminism (Applied Legal Philosophy) by Jill Marshall on page 20, and Back Matter
- Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas: An Historical Introduction by Tudor Jones in Back Matter
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