Table Of ContentPreface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction Thucydides by David Bolotin Plato by Leo Strauss Xenophon by Christopher Bruell Aristotle by Carnes Lord Marcus Tullius Cicero by James E. Holton St. Augustine by Ernest L. Fortin Alfarabi by Muhsin Mahdi Moses Maimonides by Ralph Lerner St. Thomas Aquinas by Ernest L. Fortin Marsilius of Padua by Leo Strauss Niccolo Machiavelli by Leo Strauss Martin Luther and John Calvin by Duncan B. Forrester Richard Hooker by Duncan B. Forrester Francis Bacon by Howard B. White Hugo Grotius by Richard H. Cox Thomas Hobbes by Laurence Berns Rene Descartes by Richard Kennington John Milton by Walter Berns Benedict Spinoza by Stanley Rosen John Locke by Robert A. Goldwin Montesquieu David Lowenthal David Hume by Robert S. Hill Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Allan Bloom Immanuel Kant by Pierre Hassner William Blackstone by Herbert J. Storing Adam Smith by Joseph Cropsey The Federalist by Martin Diamond Thomas Paine by Francis Canavan, S.J. Edmund Burke by Harvey Mansfield, Jr. Jeremy Bentham and James Mill by Timothy Fuller Georg W.F. Hegel by by Pierre Hassner; translated by Allan Bloom Alexis de Tocqueville by Marvin Zetterbaum John Stuart Mill by Henry M. Magid Karl Marx by Joseph Cropsey Friedrich Nietzsche by Werner J. Dannhauser John Dewey by Robert Horwitz Edmund Husserl by Richard Velkley Martin Heidegger by Michael Gillespie Epilogue: Leo Strauss and the History of Political Philosophy by Nathan Tarcov and Thomas L. Pangle Index
SynopsisThis volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been expanded significantly to include both new and revised essays.