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).

* 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 of Legislation 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

Steven M. Cahn, City University of New York Graduate Center

"This is a fine reader for any course in ethics or political philosophy. It contains well-edited readings along with introductions by leading philosophers. Beginning students will find this a very user-friendly text, and advanced students will benefit from the breadth of readings."--Ted Vaggalis, Drury University |k No