Social and Political Philosophy

Description

An anthology of a basic statement by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. The book contains selections from the following:

Plato: The Republic, The Crito
Aristotle: Politics
Niccolo Machiaveli: The Prince, Discourses
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
John Locke: The Second Treatise on Civil Government
Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract
Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence, An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, Letters.
Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
V.I. Lenin: State and Revolution
Benito Mussolini: The Doctrine of Fascism
Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf
John Dewey: Reconstruction in Philosophy, Ethics.
M.K. Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance.