An Introduction to Political Philosophy

Cover Page......Page 1
Title: AN INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY......Page 3
ISBN 041557921X......Page 4
About the Book......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
1 THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY......Page 9
2 THE POLITICAL THEORIES OF THE SOPHISTS......Page 25
3 PLATO\'S THEORY OF THE IDEAL STATE......Page 32
4 ARISTOTLE\'S THEORY OF THE BEST POSSIBLE STATE......Page 45
5 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY BETWEEN ARISTOTLE AND MACHIAVELLI......Page 55
6 MACHIAVELLI ON THE SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT......Page 62
7 HOBBES\'S THEORY OF THE RATIONAL STATE......Page 69
8 LOCKE\'S THEORY OF THE MORAL STATE......Page 81
9 ROUSSEAU\'S THEORY OF THE GENERAL WILL......Page 90
10 HUME AND BURKE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONSERVATISM......Page 100
11 HEGEL\'S IDEALIST THEORY OF THE STATE......Page 108
12 THE UTILITARIAN THEORIES OF BENTHAM AND MILL......Page 117
13 MARXISM, COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM......Page 131
14 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICS......Page 148
15 THE JUSTIFICATION OF GOVERNMENT......Page 159
INDEX (erroneos page numbers)......Page 169