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