Western Political Thought: From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times, 2nd Edition by Pearson, 2nd Edition

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. About Pearson
3. Title Page
4. Contents
5. Preface To The Second Edition
6. Preface To The First Edition
7. About the Author
8. Introduction
9. 1. The Greek City-State: Democratic Institutions in Athens
10. 2. Plato (427–347 bce): Justice and Reason
11. 3. Aristotle (384–322 bce): Moral Action and the Best Constitution
12. 4. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas: Christian Political Thought in the Middle Ages
13. 5. Machiavelli (1469–1527): Humanism and Republicanism
14. 6. Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679): Contract as the Basis of Political Obligation
15. 7. John Locke (1632–1704): Theological Premises and Liberal Limits on Government
16. 8. Rousseau (1712–1778): The General Will and Moral and Political Liberty
17. 9. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832): Representative Government as the Maximizer of Utility
18. 10. John Stuart Mill (1806–1873): The Benefits of the Liberty of Men and Women for Society
19. 11. G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831): The Social Conditions for a Non-Contractual Theory of Freedom
20. 12. Karl Marx (1818–1883): The State and Class Struggle
21. 13. Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937): Hegemony in Civil Society as a Basis of the Modern State
22. 14. John Rawls (1921–2002): A Liberal Egalitarian Theory of Justice
23. 15. Carole Pateman, Martha C. Nussbaum, Judith Butler: Contemporary Feminist Theory
24. Afterword
25. Index
26. Copyright