Classics of Political Thought
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- Collection: Classics in the History of Political Thought
This is a collection of the most significant writings in the history of political thought. It is designed to bring together in one convenient location the readings which a typical college course on this topic might require:
- The Politics
- Edmund Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- James The Federalist (Gideon ed.) 1818
- James The Oceana (1656)
- Thomas Leviathan (1651)
- David Essays Moral, Political, Literary (1777)
- David A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
- Thomas The Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Immanuel Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay (1795)
- John The Two Treatises of Civil Government (1689)
- Niccolo The Prince, (1513)
- Niccolo Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius ()
- Karl Marx, Capital
- John Stuart On Liberty (1859)
- John Stuart The Subjection of Women (1869)
- Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de The Spirit of Laws (1748)
- The Dialogues
- The Republic
- Jean-Jacques The Social Contract (1761)
- Jean-Jacques A Discourse on Inequality
- Alexis de De la Démocratie en Amérique (in French)
This list can also be viewed as a Collection in The Library: Classics in the History of Political Thought
Political Thought
- Althusius and the Federal Commonwealth
- Althusius’s Political Thought
- Bryce on America
- Burckhardt’s Pessimistic Conservatism
- Calhoun on Union & Liberty
- Chodorov’s Political Thought
- Chodorov, Socialism via Taxation (1946)
- Cicero’s Commonwealth
- Classics of Political Thought
- Cobden’s Political Thought
- Condorcet, 10th Epoch. Future Progress of Man (1796)
- Constant and Modernity
- Constant’s Political Thought
- Constant, The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns (1819)
- Dante on Monarchy
- De Lolme and the English Constitution
- Eighteenth-century middle-class English radicalism
- Étienne de la Boétie, Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (1576)
- French Declaration of Rights
- Friedman on a Volunteer Army
- Friedman on Stability of Freedom
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and the Fabian Society
- Guizot and Representative Government
- Guizot on the rise of the Free Cities
- Herbert & State Compulsion
- Hobbes: Oakeshott’s Introduction to Leviathan
- Hume on the Origin of Government
- Hume’s Essays
- Julian, George Washington (1817-1899)
- Kant’s Political Philosophy
- Kant’s Political Philosophy II
- Karl Marx and the Liberal Critique of Socialism
- Lecky and Democracy
- Leggett and the Doctrine of Equal Rights
- Leoni on Voting and the Market
- Macaulay, Southey’s Colloquies (1830)
- Machan, Spencer A Century Later
- Mackay on the Socialist Dystopia
- Marcus Aurelius and the Scottish Enightenment
- Marxism as Farrago: A Dialog betwen H.B Acton & a Reader
- Milton and Freedom of Speech
- Milton on the Ideal Republic
- Milton on the Right to Depose a Tyrant King
- Milton’s Political Writings
- Minogue on Freedom
- Montesquieu and the Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu’s Mes Pensées: Editor’s Introduction
- Oakeshott and Hobbes
- Paul, The Liberty and Property Defence League
- Penn’s Life and Political Thought
- Personal Rights Association
- Plato’s The Laws - Jowett’s analysis
- Plato’s The Republic - Jowett’s analysis
- Read, To Abdicate or Not
- Richter’s Socialist Dystopia
- Rothbard on the Black Revolution
- Rothbard’s Review of Leoni, Freedom and the Law
- Rousseau as Political Philosopher
- Rousseau’s Political Thought
- Spencer & the State
- Spencer on Education
- Spencer on the Tyranny of Fashion (1854)
- Spencer, Proper Sphere of Government (1843)
- Spencer, The Right to Ignore the State (1851)
- Spinoza’s Political Theory
- Tacitus and Tyranny
- Taylor and American tyranny
- The Earl of Shaftesbury on Liberty and Harmony