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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Plato | |
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| The Pre-Socratic Philosophers | |
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| The Sophists. Socrates | |
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| Plato: HIs Life and Works | |
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| The Gorgias | |
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| The Republic | |
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| The Republic: Selection of the Guardians and Their Manner of Living | |
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| The Republic: The Definition of Justice | |
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| The Republic: Education of the Guardians | |
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| The Republic: The Four Stages of Cognition | |
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| The Republic: The Allegory of the Cave | |
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| The Republic: The Decline of the Best State | |
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| The Republic: Concluding Observations | |
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| The Laws | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| Aristotle: His Life and Works | |
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| Aristotle's Metaphysics | |
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| Nicomachean Ethics | |
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| Theoretical and Practical Reason | |
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| The Politics: The Nature of the Polis | |
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| Household Management | |
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| Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic | |
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| Types of Political Order | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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| The Hellenistic Age and the Roman Lawyers | |
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| The Early Cynics | |
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| Epicureanism. Stoicism | |
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| The Revision of Stoicism | |
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| Polybius | |
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| Cicero | |
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| The Roman Law | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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| St. Augustine and the Early Middle Ages | |
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| The Hebraic Tradition. Early Christianity | |
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| The Christian Creeds | |
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| Augustine: His Life and Works | |
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| Augustine's Conception of Human Nature | |
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| The City of God and the City of Babylon | |
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| Augustine's Conception of the State | |
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| Augustine on Slavery and Property | |
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| Greek and Christian Thought Compared | |
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| Church and State in the Early Middle Ages | |
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| Law in the Early Middle Ages | |
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| Law in the Early Middle Ages | |
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| Feudalism | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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| St. Thomas Aquinas and the High Middle Ages | |
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| Recovery of Greek Philosophy | |
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| Aquinas: His Life and Works | |
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| Reason and Revelation | |
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| Political Philosophy | |
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| Virtue | |
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| Law | |
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| Political Structure | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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| Machiavelli | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| Machiavelli: His Life and Works | |
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| The Prince | |
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| The Discourses | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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| Thomas Hobbes and The Intellectual Revolution of the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Seventeenth Century | |
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| The Rise of Modern Science | |
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| The Reaction of the Church | |
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| Rene Descartes (1596-1650) | |
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| Hobbes: His Life and Works | |
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| Leviathan | |
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| The First Part: Of Man | |
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| The Second Part: Of Commonwealth | |
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| The Third Part: Of a Christian Commonwealth | |
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| The Fourth Part: Of the Kingdom of Darkness | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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| John Locke. Locke: His Life and Works | |
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| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
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| The Two Treatises. First Treatise | |
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| Second Treatise | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
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| Rousseau: His LIfe and Works | |
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| Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (The First Discourse) | |
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| Discourse on Inequality (The Second Discourse) | |
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| On the Social Contract | |
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| The General Will with Moral Liberty | |
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| Popular Sovereignty and Participation | |
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| The Institutional Structure within the Political System | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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| Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill | |
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| Bentham and John Stuart Mill | |
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| Bentham: HIs Life and Works | |
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| Mill: His Life and Works | |
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| Utilitarianism Reconsidered | |
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| On Liberty | |
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| Government and Society | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |
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| Karl Marx | |
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| Marx: His Life and Works | |
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| Philosophic Background | |
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| Historical Materialism | |
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| Economics | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Readings | |