Plato to NATO
Studies in Political Thought
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-14-024677-3 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of 14 essays on political thought. They span thinkers such as Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Marx, and end with views of 20th-century philosophers such as Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
table
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
176 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-024677-3 (9780140246773)
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Introduction
Content
Plato - the search for an ideal form of state, Christopher Rowe; Aristotle - ideals and realities, Peter Nicholson; St Augustine - Christian political thought at the end of the Roman Empire, Janet Coleman; St Thomas Aquinas - the state and morality, Antony Black; Niccolo Machiavelli - the anatomy of political and military decadence, Sydney Anglo; Jean Calvin - the disciplined commonwealth, Harro Hopfl; Thomas Hobbes - the sceptical state, Richard Tuck; John Locke - the politics of trust, John Dunn; Jean-Jacques Rousseau - moral decadence and the pursuit of liberty, Robert Wokler; Adam Smith - the Enlightenment and the philosophy of society, John Robertson; John Stuart Mill - the crisis of liberalism, John Gray; Karl Marx - gravedigger of the capitalist class, Terrell Carver; the moderns - liberalism revived, Alan Ryan; the moderns - Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt - "critics of the present", Liam O'Sullivan.