Political Theory Readings

• Plato
• The Republic
• Laws
• Aristotle,
  • Politics
  • Law and Morality
• Cicero, The Republic
• St. Augustine, The City of God
• St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologies
• Marsilius of Padua, The Defender of Peace (Defensor Pacis)
• Machiavelli
• The Prince
• The Discourses
• The Seven Books on the Art of War
• Bodin, Six Books on the Commonwealth
• Thomas Hobbs, Leviathan
• John Locke, Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
• Rousseau, On the Social Contract
• Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Grotius, Prolegomena, The Law of War and Peace
• Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws Book XI
• John Stuart Mill,
• On Liberty text only
• The Subjection of Women
• Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right
• Marx,
  • The Manifesto of the Communist Party
  • Capital
• Lenin, Selected Works
• Sorel, Reflections on Violence
• Hitler, Mein Kampf