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SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Edited By John Somerviller.
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Edited By John Somerviller.
An anthology of 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.