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Philosopher Resources
Plato (Approx. 427 B.C.E.-347 B.C.E.)
Aristotle (384-322B.C.E)
Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
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City of God (Translated by Healey)
Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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The Prince (alternate)
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
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Ethics (Translated by Elwes)
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Treatise on Theology and Politics (J. Bennett)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Montesquieu (1689-1755)
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Spirit of the Laws (Translated by Nugent)
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Spirit of the Laws (alternate)
Voltaire (1694-1778)
David Hume (1711-1776)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
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Emile (Translated by Worthington)
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Second Discourse (Translated by Cole)
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
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Metaphysics of Morals (alternate)
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Perpetual Peace (alternate)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
The Federalists (works 1788)
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Federalist Papers (complete)
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Federalist Papers (alternate)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
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Democracy in America (Translated by Reeve)
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Democracy in America (Translated by Schleifer)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Frederick Engels (1820-1878)
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Max Weber (1864-1920)
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Politics as a Vocation (1918 Munich Lecture)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
John Rawls (1921-2002)
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Justice as Fairness (paper)
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The Law of Peoples (paper)
Robert Nozick (1938-2002)
Related Works
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Recommended Reading
Political Philosophy by Stephen B. Smith
An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Jonathan Wolff
The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
Online Resources
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
McMaster University: History of Economic Thought
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Some Texts from Early Modern Philosophy
Open Online Courses
Yale: Introduction to Political Philosophy
Online Videos
School of Life (Various Short Videos)
Moral Foundations of Politics (Professor Shapiro, Yale)
Important Concepts
Labor Theory of Value (Investopedia)
Labor Theory of Value (Prychitko)
A Priori and A Posteriori (Baehr)
The Problem of Dirty Hands (Coady)
Enlightenment (Bristow)
The Natural Law Tradition (Murphy)
Social Contract Theory (C. Friend)
Contemporary Approaches to Social Contract (D'Agostino)
Understanding the General Will (Dagger)
State of Nature (Lacewing)
Political Legitimacy (Peter)
Other Philosopher's and Interesting Thinkers
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
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The American Crisis (December 1776)
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
David Ricardo (1772-1823)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
August Comte (1798-1857)
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)
Leo Strauss (1899-1973)
Karl Popper (1902-1994)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
H.L.A. Hart (1907-1992)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)
Simone Weil (1909-1943)
Robert A. Dahl (1915-2014)
Joseph Cropsey (1919-2012)
Noam Chomsky (1928-present)
Jurgen Habermas (1929-present)
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
Sara Ruddick (1935-2011)
Margaret Gilbert (1942-present)
Susan Haack (1945-present)
Susan Moller Okin (1946-2004)
James Tully (1946-present)
Martha Nussbaum (1947-present)
bell hooks (1952-present)
Cornel West (1953-present)
Judith Butler (1956-present)
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato"
(Alfred North Whitehead, 1979)