CONTENTS: Preface, Introduction, Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, Immaneul Kant, John Stuart Mill, Georg Willhelm Fredrich Hegel, Karl Marx,
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This book is an introduction to western political thought, spanning from the ancient to the modern times. It aims to give students to give opportunities to study a range of thinkers who are considered to be the key in the 'canon' of western political thought. Written simply and directly , it represents the basic ideas and dilemmas of western political thought through an in-depth analysis of a limited number of major thinkers - Plato to Karl Marx. It views the thinkers in historical context examines them in terms of the changing relationship of ethics and politics in western political thought.
