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Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy

Author: Steven M Cahn

Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy provides in one volume the major writings from nearly 2,500 years of political and moral philosophy. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, it moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero) through medieval views (Augustine, Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Adam Smith, Kant). It includes major nineteenth-century thinkers (Hegel, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche) as well as twentieth-century theorists (Rawls, Nozick, Nagel, Foucault, Habermas, Nussbaum). Also included are numerous essays from The Federalist Papers and a variety of notable documents and addresses, among them Pericles' Funeral Oration, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and speeches by Edmund Burke, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Dewey, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The readings are substantial or complete texts, not fragments.
An especially valuable feature of this volume is that the works of each author are introduced with a substantive and engaging essay by a leading contemporary authority. These introductions include Richard Kraut on Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Cicero; Paul J. Weithman on Augustine and Aquinas; Roger D. Masters on Machiavelli; Jean Hampton on Hobbes; Steven B. Smith on Spinoza and Hegel; A. John Simmons on Locke; Joshua Cohen on Rousseau and Rawls; Donald W. Livingston on Hume; Charles L. Griswold, Jr., on Smith; Bernard E. Brown on Hamilton and Madison; Jeremy Waldron on Bentham and Mill; Paul Guyer on Kant; Richard Miller on Marx and Engels; Richard Schacht on Nietzsche; Thomas Christiano on Nozick; John Deigh on Nagel;Thomas A. McCarthy on Foucault and Habermas; and Eva Feder Kittay on Nussbaum. Offering unprecedented breadth of coverage, Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy is an ideal text for courses in social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, or surveys in Western civilization.

Table of Contents:

* Unabridged selections

Preface

PLATO

Introduction, Richard Kraut

* Defence of Socrates

* Crito

Republic

Statesman

ARISTOTLE

Introduction, Richard Kraut

Nicomachean Ethics

Politics

EPICURUS

Introduction, Richard Kraut

* Letter to Menoeceus

* Principal Doctrines

CICERO

Introduction, Richard Kraut

On the Republic

On the Laws

AUGUSTINE

Introduction, Paul J. Weithman

The City of God

THOMAS AQUINAS

Introduction, Paul J. Weithman

Summa Theologiae

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Introduction, Roger D. Masters

The Prince

Discourses

THOMAS HOBBES

Introduction, Jean Hampton

Leviathan

BARUCH SPINOZA

Introduction, Steven B. Smith

Theologico-Political Treatise

JOHN LOCKE

Introduction, A. John Simmons

Second Treatise of Government

Letter Concerning Toleration

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Introduction, Joshua Cohen

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Of the Social Contract

DAVID HUME

Introduction, Donald W. Livingston

A Treatise of Human Nature

* Of Parties in General

* Of the Original Contract

ADAM SMITH

Introduction, Charles L. Griswold, Jr.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

The Wealth of Nations

ALEXANDER HAMILTON and JAMES MADISON

Introduction, Bernard E. Brown

The Federalist Papers

JEREMY BENTHAM

Introduction, Jeremy Waldron

Principles ofLegislation

IMMANUEL KANT

Introduction, Paul Guyer

* Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

* On the Common Saying: "This May Be True in Theory but It Does Not Apply in Practice"

G.W.F. HEGEL

Introduction, Steven B. Smith

The Philosophy of Right

The Philosophy of History

KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Introduction, Richard Miller

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

The German Ideology

* Manifesto of the Communist Party

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

* Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

JOHN STUART MILL

Introduction, Jeremy Waldron

* Utilitarianism

* On Liberty

Considerations on Representative Government

The Subjection of Women

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Introduction, Richard Schacht

Human, All Too Human

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Beyond Good and Evil

On the Genealogy of Morals

Twilight of the Idols

JOHN RAWLS

Introduction, Joshua Cohen

A Theory of Justice

ROBERT NOZICK

Introduction, Thomas Christiano

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

THOMAS NAGEL

Introduction, John Deigh

Equality and Partiality

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Introduction, Thomas A. McCarthy

Power/Knowledge

JURGEN HABERMAS

Introduction, Thomas A. McCarthy

* Three Normative Models of Democracy

* On the Internal Relation Between the Rule of Law and Democracy

MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM

Introduction, Eva Feder Kittay

* The Feminist Critique of Liberalism

DOCUMENTS AND ADDRESSES

PERICLES

* Funeral Oration

EDMUND BURKE

Speech to the Electors of Bristol

* THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

* THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

* THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

First Inaugural Address (selections)

* Gettysburg Address

* Second Inaugural Address

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

* The Solitude of Self

JOHN DEWEY

Democracy

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

* Letter from a Birmingham City Jail

* The March on Washington Address

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