Great political thinkers : Plato to the present / William Ebenstein
Imprint
Hinsdale, Ill. : Dryden Press, 1969
Edition
4th ed
Descript
xii, 1010 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Plato : Plato, The republic -- Aristotle : Aristotle, Politics -- Polybius : Polybius, The histories -- Cicero : Cicero, The republic and the laws -- Slave and emporer: two Stoic philosophers : Epictetus, The discourses and the manual -- Marcus aurelius, Meditations -- St. Augustine : St. Augustine, The city of god -- John of Salisbury : John of Salisbury, The statesman's book -- St. Thomas Aquinas : St. Thomas aquinas, On kingship -- St. Thomas aquinas, summa theologica -- Dante : Dante, De monarchia -- Marsilio of Padua : Marsilio of padua, The defender of peace -- Machiavelli : Niccolo machiavelli, The prince -- The prostestant reformation : Luther, Secular authority: To what extent it should be obeyed -- Calvin, Institutes of the christian religion -- Stephen junius brutus, A defense of liberty against tyrants -- Bodin : Jean Bodin, Six books on the state -- Hobbes : Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan -- Locke : John Lock, Two treatises of government -- Montesquieu : Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, The spirit of the laws -- Rousseau : Jean Jacques Rousseau, The social contract -- Burke : Edmund Burke, Reflections on the revolution in France -- Bentham : Jeremy Bentham, Principles of morals and legislation -- The dilemma of democracy: Liberty and equality : Alexis de Tocqueville, Democcracy in America -- John Stuart Mill, on liberty -- The cult of the state : G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of law -- Benito Mussolini, The doctrine of fascism -- Liberalism: Old and new : Herbert Spencer, Laissez faire (social statics and the man versus the state) -- John Maynard Keynes, The end of laissez faire and the general theory of employment, interest, and money -- Revolutionary communism : Karl Marx, Economic and philosophical manuscripts -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The commuist manifesto -- V.I. Lenin, selected works -- Democratic socialism and the welfare state : Clement R. Attlee, The labour party in perspective -- Lord Lindsay of Birker, The philosophy of the british labour government -- Hugh Gaitskell, socialism and nationalization -- Gunnar, Beyond the welfare state -- Freud : Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its discontents -- Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, Why war?