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NoneTable of contents
- Cover
- About Pearson
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface To The Second Edition
- Preface To The First Edition
- About the Author
- Introduction
- 1. The Greek City-State: Democratic Institutions in Athens
- 2. Plato (427–347 bce): Justice and Reason
- 3. Aristotle (384–322 bce): Moral Action and the Best Constitution
- 4. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas: Christian Political Thought in the Middle Ages
- 5. Machiavelli (1469–1527): Humanism and Republicanism
- 6. Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679): Contract as the Basis of Political Obligation
- 7. John Locke (1632–1704): Theological Premises and Liberal Limits on Government
- 8. Rousseau (1712–1778): The General Will and Moral and Political Liberty
- 9. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832): Representative Government as the Maximizer of Utility
- 10. John Stuart Mill (1806–1873): The Benefits of the Liberty of Men and Women for Society
- 11. G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831): The Social Conditions for a Non-Contractual Theory of Freedom
- 12. Karl Marx (1818–1883): The State and Class Struggle
- 13. Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937): Hegemony in Civil Society as a Basis of the Modern State
- 14. John Rawls (1921–2002): A Liberal Egalitarian Theory of Justice
- 15. Carole Pateman, Martha C. Nussbaum, Judith Butler: Contemporary Feminist Theory
- Afterword
- Index
- Copyright
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- Title: Western Political Thought: From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times, 2nd Edition by Pearson, 2nd Edition
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