Title: The Political Classics: A Guide to the Essential Texts from Plato to Rousseau
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN 10: 0192852825
ISBN 13: 9780192852823
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Near Fine

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These essays are designed for students of political philosophy who are approaching the great texts of the past for the first time. Intended to help students find their way into the texts and get the most from them, while encouraging further exploration, the essays offer selective interpretation of setting, form, and content in clear, straightforward language. Texts discussed are Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Augustine's City of God, Machiavelli's Prince and Discourses, Hobbes's Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise of Government, and Rousseau's Social Contract.

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Murray Forsyth and Maurice Keens-Soper are both at the University of Leicester.

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