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Classics in Political Philosophy

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ISBN-10: 0130821985

ISBN-13: 9780130821980

Edition: 3rd 2000

Authors: Jene M. Porter

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List price: $240.20
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 3/6/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 680
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Preface to the First Edition (1989)
Preface to the Second Edition (1997)
Preface to the Third Edition
The Republic
Cephalus and Thrasymaechus
The Question Restated
Selection of Rulers
Guardians and Virtues
Philosophers as Kings
Four Stages of Cognition
The Allegory of the Cave
Decline of the State
Justice Benefits
The Myth of Eros
The Nicomachean Ethic
The Goal of Human Life
Justice and Injustice
Kinds of Friendships and Politics
The Politics
The City and the Household
Views Concerning the Best Regime
The City and the Regime
Types of Regimes: What Preserves and Destroys Them
What Preserves and Destroys Regimes
Education and the Best Regime
The City of God
The Earthly City
Fallen Nature and the Two Cities
True Justice: Not of This World
Development of the Two Cities
Summa Contra Gentiles
Summa Theologica
The Existence of God
(First Part): Significance of the State
Treatise on Law
The Various Kinds of Law
Just War
Resisting Tyrannical Government
Right to Property
Property Useful to Human Life
Need and Charity
Usury
The Prince
Dedicatory Letter: Niccol Machiavelli to His Magnificence Lorenzo de'Medici
How One Should Govern Cities or Principalities That, Before Being Conquered, Used to Live Under Their Own Laws
New Principalities Acquired by One's Own Arms And Ability
New Principalities Acquired Through the Power of Others and Their Favour
Those Who Become Rulers Through Wicked Means
The Civil Principality
Ecclesiastical Principalities
The Different Types of Army, and Mercenary Troops
Auxiliaries, Mixed Troops and Native Troops
How a Ruler Should Act Concerning Military Matters
The Things for Which Men, and Especially Rulers, Are Praised or Blamed
Generosity and Meanness
Cruelty and Mercifulness; and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared
How Rulers Should Keep Their Promises
How a Ruler Should Act in Order to Gain Reputation
How Much Power Fortune Has Over Human Affairs, and How It Should Be Resisted
Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarian Yoke
The Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil
Author's Introduction
The First Part: Of Man
The Second Part: Of Commonwealth
Two Treatises of Government: The Second Treatise-An Essay Concerning the True Origin, Extent and End of Civil Government
Second Discourse: Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men
First Part
Second Part
On the Social Contract
The Phenomenology of the Spirit
Master and Servant
Introduction to the Philosophy of History
Original History
Reflective History
Philosophical History
The Philosophy of Right
Ethical Life
Civil Society