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Classics of Political and Social Philosophy 2001

Selected and Partially Transliterated by

Jan Narveson
 

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Plato: Crito

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Henry David Thoreau: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

3

 

Plato: The Republic

5

 

Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics

22

 

Aristotle: Politics

27

 

St. Thomas Aquinas: from Summa Contra Gentiles, On Kingship, and Summa Theologica

30

 

Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince

37

 

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

40

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Benito Mussolini, Fascism

57

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John Locke: Second Treatise of Civil Government

61

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David B. Suits, On Locke’s Argument for Government

70

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David Hume: "Of the Original Contract”

78

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David Hume: Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

81

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract

86

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Immanuel Kant: Philosophy of Right

92

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Immanuel Kant: Perpetual Peace

99

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Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

103

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John Stuart Mill -- Selected Works

105

 

    Utilitarianism

105

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    On Liberty

110

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    on Representative Government

115

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    The Subjection of Women

120

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Frederic Bastiat: The Law

122

 

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, selections

141

 

    1844 Mss.

141

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    Communist Manifesto

142

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    Critique of Political Economy

144

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    Capital

144

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    On the Division of Labour in Production

150

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    Critique of the Gotha Program

151

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    Socialism, Utopian and Scientific

153

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    On Morality

157

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Lysander Spooner: No Treason - The Constitution of No Authority

158

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Ludwig von Mises: Laissez Faire or Dictatorship

168

 

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; American Bill of Rights

173

 

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