Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2004-12-02
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0195177088
ISBN-13: 9780195177084
Ideal for survey courses in social and political philosophy, this volume is a substantially abridged and slightly altered version of Steven M. Cahn’s Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy (OUP, 2001). Offering coverage from antiquity to the present, Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts is a historically organized collection of the most significant works from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy. It moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle) through the medieval period (Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Adam Smith, Hamilton a...