Part I. The history of social and political theory : Plato's political philosophy -- Aristotle's social and political philosophy -- Aquinas -- Medieval political thought -- Machiavelli -- Hobbes -- Locke -- Rousseau -- Hume and Smith on justice -- Kant -- Hegel -- Mill -- Marx -- Late nineteenth and ealy twentieth-century british thought -- Continental political philosophy -- French political thought in the twentieth century -- The political philosophy of China -- Indian political theory -- Part II. Political theories and ideologies : Anarchism -- Liberalism -- Conservatism -- Republicanism -- Marxism and contemporary political thought -- Feminism and the history of political philosophy -- Environmentalism -- Part III. Normative foundations : Contractarianism -- Contractualism and political liberalism -- Utilitarianism and consequentialism -- Perfectionism -- Pluralism -- Virtue ethics and political philosophy -- Natural law and rights theory -- Part IV. Distributive justice : Luck egalitarianism -- The difference principle -- Left libertarianism -- Libertarianism -- Desert -- Needs and distributive justice -- The capability approach (and social justice) -- Intergenerational distributive justice -- Part V. The national state and beyond : Nationalism -- Human rights and cosmopolitanism -- Multiculturalism -- Global justice and politics -- Justice and borders -- War -- Part VI. Political concepts : Equality -- Freedom -- Autonomy -- Power -- Authority and legitimacy -- Democracy -- Rights -- Toleration -- Part VII. Approaches -- Social evolution -- The pragmatist project in political philosophy -- Postmodernism and politics -- Social choice theory -- Rational choice theory -- Discourse theory -- Part VIII: Issues in social and political philosophy : Education -- Health -- Marriage, sex, and the family -- Work -- Punishment -- Terrorism -- Paternalism, moralism, and markets -- Religion in public life

1. Political science -- Philosophy -- History
2. Social sciences -- Philosophy -- History
3. Political sociology -- Philosophy -- History