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Classic Texts in Political Philosophy

• The Republic by Plato;
• The Laws by Plato;
• The Gorgias by Plato;
• The Phaedrus by Plato;
• The Phaedo by Plato;
• The Apology of Socrates by Plato;
• History of the Pelopenessian War by Thucydides;
• The Politics by Aristotle;
• The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle;
• Defensor Pacis by Marsilius of Padua;
• The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon;
• Novum Organon by Francis Bacon;
• The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon;
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes;
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli;
• The Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli;
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke;
• Nonsense on Stilts by Jeremy Bentham;
• On Liberty by John Stuart Mill;
• Essay on Human Understanding by John Locke;
• Two Treatises of Government by John Locke;
• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay;
• Essays Moral Political and Literary by David Hume;
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau;
• The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau;
• Political Writings by Immanuel Kant;
• The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine;
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche;
• The Geneology of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche;
• Selected Writings by Karl Marx;
• Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft;
• Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville;
• Being and Time by Martin Heidegger;