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Political
Philosophy is a section of Adventures in
Philosophy devoted to a brief history of political
thought and theory from ancient Greece to the
present day. You may notice that some of the
thinkers included here are not ordinarily
considered to be philosophers. We think their
inclusion here is justified, however, because of
the intellectual impact they have had on the
development of social and political thought in
Western Civilization as well as on Western culture
in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background
Essay
A Brief
Introduction to the Study of Political
Philosophy
Ancient Political
Thought
Pericles --
Plato --
Aristotle --
Pliny the
Younger
Essays
Medieval Political
Thought
Saint
Augustine -- Thomas
Aquinas
Essays
Modern Political
Thought
Sir Thomas
More -- Tommaso
Campanella -- Nicolo
Machiavelli
Hugo Grotius --
Thomas Hobbes --
Jean Jacques
Rousseau
Edmund Burke --
Baron Charles-Louis
de Secondat de Montesquieu
Thomas
Paine -- Claude
Henri, Comte de Saint-Simon -- Robert
Owen
David Ricardo
-- Frédéric
Bastiat -- Giuseppe
Mazzini -- John
Stuart Mill
Max Stirner --
Pierre Joseph
Proudhon -- Michael
Bakunin -- Karl
Marx
Jakob
Burckhardt -- Friedrich
Engels -- Ferdinand
Lassalle
George
Plekhanov
Essays
- Military
Practice in Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
- On State
Controlled Marriage, by Tommaso
Campanella
- How Princes
Should Keep Faith, by Niccolo
Machiavelli
- The
Rational Basis of International Law, by Hugo
Grotius
- State and
Sovereignty, by Thomas Hobbes
- The Social
Contract, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
- On Public
Discontents, by Edmund Burke
- The Nature
of Laws, by Baron Charles-Louis de Secondat de
Montesquieu
- Every Man
Invested with Power is Apt to Abuse It, by Baron
Charles-Louis de Secondat de
Montesquieu
- The Rights
of Man, by Thomas Paine
- Appeal to
the Princes to Bring About Social Justice, by
Claude Henri, Comte de Saint-Simon
- Individual
Interest and Universal Good, by Robert
Owen
- On Wages,
by David Ricardo
- What is
Law?, by Frédéric Bastiat
- On
Property and Plunder, by Frédéric
Bastiat
- Interests
and Principles, by Giuseppe Mazzini
- On Liberty,
by John Stuart Mill
- On
Liberty: Introduction, by John Stuart
Mill
- The
Possessed, by Max Stirner
- The
Complexity of Human Nature, by Pierre Joseph
Proudhon
- Science and
Life, by Michael Bakunin
- The
Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation,
by Karl Marx
- On War, by
Jakob Burckhardt
- Morality
is Class Morality, by Friedrich Engels
- The Law of
Wages, by Ferdinand Lassalle
- Bourgeois
and Socialistic Art, by George
Plekhanov
Recent Political
Thought
Georges
Clemenceau -- Prince
Peter Kropotkin -- Georges
Sorel
Bernard
Bosanquet -- Pavel
Borisovich Axelrod -- Vladimir
Soloviev
V.I. Lenin --
Johan Huizinga
-- Nicholas
Berdyaev -- Giovanni
Gentile
Benito Mussolini
-- José
Ortega y Gasset
Essays
- Knowledge
and Emotion, by Georges Clemenceau
- Anarchism,
by Prince Peter Kropotkin
- Optimism
and Pessimism in Social Development, by Georges
Sorel
- On The
State, by Bernard Bosanquet
- A
Marxist's Dream, by Pavel Borisovich
Axelrod
- Humanity
Before Nationality, by Vladimir
Soloviev
- The Three
Sources of Marxism, by V.I. Lenin
- Barbarism,
by Johan Huizinga
- On
Socialism, by Nicholas Berdyaev
- The
Philosophic Basis of Fascism, by Giovanni
Gentile
- The
Doctrine of Fascism: Fundamental Ideas, by
Benito Mussolini
- Bolshevism
and Fascism, by José Ortega y
Gasset
American Political
Thought
Thomas
Jefferson -- Alexander
Hamilton -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Henry David
Thoreau -- Walt
Whitman -- Henry
George -- Woodow
Wilson
Louis D.
Brandeis -- Thorstein
Veblen -- John
Dewey
James Hayden
Tufts -- Benjamin
N. Cardozo
Essays
- First
Inauguration Address, by Thomas Jefferson (March
4, 1801)
- Second
Inauguration Address, by Thomas Jefferson (March
4, 1805)
- On a Just
Partition of Power, by Alexander
Hamilton
- Self-Reliance,
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The
Antidote to the Abuse of Formal Government is
the Growth of the Individual, by Ralph Waldo
Emerson
- The
Individual Must Be Recognized as a Higher and
Independent Power, by Henry David
Thoreau
- The
Purpose of Democracy, by Walt Whitman
- Democracy's
Danger, by Henry George
- Conditions
of Social Life, by Woodrow Wilson
- Law and
Democracy, by Louis D. Brandeis
- The Place
of Women and Pets in the Economic System, by
Thorstein Veblen
- On
Democracy, by John Dewey
- Democracy
at Trial, by James Hayden Tufts
- Law and
Liberty, by Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
Letter
Famous
Political Documents in Western
Culture
[Note
that these documents are located in the Politics
Resource Center.]
The Magna
Carta -- The
Mayflower Compact
The Declaration
of Independence -- The
Articles of Confederation
Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address -- The
Original 7 Articles of the U.S.
Constitution
The Original 10
Amendments of the U.S. Constitution: The Bill of
Rights
Amendments Since
the Bill of Rights
Resource: A
Guide to Reading the American State Papers
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