Western Political Thought

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title page
3. Contents
4. About the Author
5. Preface
6. Introduction
7. 1. The Greek City-State: Democratic Institutions in Athens
8. 2. Plato (427–347 BCE): Justice and Reason
9. 3. Aristotle (384–322 BCE): Moral Action and the Best Constitution
10. 4. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas: Christian Political Thought in the Middle Ages
11. 5. Machiavelli (1469–1527): Humanism and Republicanism
12. 6. Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679): Contract as the Basis of Political Obligation
13. 7. John Locke (1632–1704): Theological Premises and Liberal Limits on Government
14. 8. Rousseau (1712–1778): The General Will and Moral and Political Liberty
15. 9. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832): Representative Government as the Maximizer of Utility
16. 10. John Stuart Mill (1806–1873): The Benefits of the Liberty of Men and Women for Society
17. 11. G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831): The Social Conditions for a Non-Contractual Theory of Freedom
18. 12. Karl Marx (1818–1883): The State and Class Struggle
19. Afterword
20. Endnotes
21. Copyright