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    Ancient and Medieval Thinkers  
      Plato
Aristotle
Cicero
Epicurus
St. Augustine
Boethius
St. Thomas Aquinas
Marcilius of Padua
 
         
    Early Modern Thinkers  
     

Niccolo Machiavelli
Rene Descartes
Francis Bacon
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Baron de Montesquieu
David Hume
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adam Smith
Thomas Paine

Immanuel Kant
Edmund Burke
The Federalist Papers
Mary Wollstoncraft

 
         
    19th and 20th Century Thinkers  
     

Jeremy Bentham
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Alexis de Tocqueville
John Stuart Mill
Karl Marx
Peter Kropotkin
Freidrich Nietzche
Max Weber
V. I. Lenin
John Dewey
Adolph Hitler
Michael Oakshott
Isaiah Berlin
Jurgen Habermas
John Rawls
Robert Nozick

 
         

         
  Building Your Own Personal Library  
    The Cannon  
      This list identifies the classic texts of Philosophy that comprise the core of our Western intellectual tradition. It is meant to serve as a guide as you begin the process of finding those works from the past that have a track record of lasting value to include in your own personal library. You will also want enhance this process by including the master works of literature and the great music and fine art that will complete your library and advance your education. Check with the literature, music, and arts faculty to find these works.  
         
    Mr. Green's Outline of the History of Western Political Philosophy  
       
  Links: Find e-texts and other information about the great philosophers.  
      EpistemeLinks.com  
      History of Economic Thought Website  
      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  
      The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy  
      Lectures on Modern Intellectual History  
         
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  The Important Western Philosophers  
    The works of Political Philosophy are in blue  
         
  Classical and Medieval Thinkers  
         
  Plato  
    The Republic  
    Selected Dialogues by Plato  
      Apology. Crito, Phaedo, Euthyphro, Symposium, Gorgias, Meno, Phaedrus, Timaeus  
    Find Plato E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
    Plato's letter on considering a career in public life (two pages)  
         
  Aristotle  
    Politics  
    Nicomachean Ethics  
    Metaphysics  
    Find Aristotle E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Cicero  
    De Republica  
    De Legibus  
         
  Epicurus  
      Letter to Menoeceus  
      Principal Doctrines  
         
  St. Augustine  
    The Confessions  
    The City of God (Chapter 29)  
    Find St .Augustine E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Boethius  
    The Consolation of Philosophy  
    Find Boethius E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
 

St. Thomas Aquinas

 
    Summa Theologica (Assorted Sections)  
    On Kingship  
    Find St. Thomas Aquinas E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Masilius of Padua  
    The Defender of the Peace  
         
  William of Occam  
         
         
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  Early Modern Thinkers  
         
    Documents related to Political Philosophy are in blue  
         
  Niccolo Machiavelli  
    The Prince  
    The Discourses  
    Find Machiavelli E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Rene Descartes  
    Discourse on Method  
    Meditation on First Philosophy  
    Find Descartes E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Francis Bacon  
    Novum Organum (The New Organon)  
    Find Bacon E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Michel de Montaign  
    Essays  
         
  Thomas Hobbes  
    Leviathan  
    Find Hobbes E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
       
  John Locke  
    Second Treatise on Government  
    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding  
    Letter on Toleration  
    Find Locke E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Baron de Montesquieu  
    The Spirit of the Laws  
    Persian Letters  
         
  David Hume  
    Treatise on Human Nature (Book III On Morals)  
    Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding  
    Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals  
    Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion  
    Selected Essays  
      On the Original Contract, Of the Origin of Government, Of the First Principles of Government, Of Commerce, Of Interest, Of Taxes, Of the Balance of Trade, Of the Liberty of the Press,  
    Find Hume E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
       
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau  
    Discourse on the Arts and Science  
    Discourse on the Origins of Inequality  
    Discourse on Political Economy  
    The Social Contract  
    Confessions  
    Emile  
    Find Rousseau E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Adam Smith  
    An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations  
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments  
    Find Smith E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Immanuel Kant  
    Critique of Pure Reason  
    Critique of Practical Reason  
    Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals  
    Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose  
    On the Common Saying: "This May Be True in Theory, But It Does Not Apply In Practice"  
    Perpetual Peace  
    Find Kant E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Edmund Burke  
    Reflections on the Revolution in France  
    Find Burke E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  The American State Documents  
    The ConSource Website.  
      This website links the phrases and clauses of the American Constitution and the Constitutional Amendments to writing from the period that addressed or commented on the linked phrases or clauses. It also contains facsimiles (pdf) of the original letters, pamphlets, and other documents that are the source of these writings.  
         
  James Madison and Alexander Hamilton  
    The Federalist Papers  
      Link to the Full Text  
         
  Mary Wollstonecraft  
         
         
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  19th and 20th Century Thinkers  
         
    Documents related to Political Philosophy are in blue  
         
  Jeremy Bentham  
    A Fragment on Government  
    An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation  
       
    Find Bentham E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  
    Phenomenology of Mind (or Phenomenology of Spirit)  
    Philosophy of Right  
    Find Hegel E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Alexis de Tocqueville  
    Democracy in America  
      Link to the Full Text  
         
         
  John Stuart Mill  
    On Liberty  
    Utilitarianism  
    The Subjugation of Women  
    Considerations on Representative Government  
    Principles of Political Economy  
    Find Mill E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Karl Marx  
    Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, 1844 [contains Alienated (or Estranged) Labor]  
    The Communist Manifesto  
    Das Kapital  
    Selected Essays  
      On the Jewish Question, Critique of the Gotha Program, Theses on Feuerbach, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, The German Ideology  
    Find Marx E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
    Find the complete works of Marx and Engles as E-Texts at:  
      The Marx-Engles Library  
      The Marx-Engles Internet Archive  
    Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" Worksheet  
         
  Friedrich Nietzsche  
    Find Nietzsche E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
         
  Peter Kropotkin  
    Link  
       
  Max Weber  
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism  
    Politics as a Vocation  
       
  William James  
    Pragmatism  
         
  V.I. Lenin  
    Vladimir Lenin Works  
         
  John Dewey  
    Find Dewey E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com  
       
  Adolph Hitler  
    Mein Kampf Link  
         
  Michael Oakeshott  
    The Michael Oakeshott Association: Works by Oakeshott  
         
  Isaiah Berlin  
    Two Concepts of Liberty  
    The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library  
         
  Jurgen Habermas  
    Writings by Habermas  
         
  John Rawls  
    Theory of Justice  
       
  Robert Nozick  
    Anarchy, State, and Utopia  
       
       
    Donald McCloskey on the Classes and their Virtues  
         
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