Synopses & Reviews
This is the first anthology to include the major moral and political works of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Reid, Rousseau, and Kant in a single volume.
Table of Contents
Historical Chart
Preface
Suggested Syllabi
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI:
Biography and Notes on the Text / The Prince
THOMAS HOBBES:
Biography and Notes on the Text / Leviathan, parts I and II (omitting chapters 45, 79, 2528, 3031)
JOHN LOCKE:
Biography and Notes on the Text / The Second Treatise on Civil Government / A Letter Concerning Toleration
DAVID HUME:
Biography and Notes on the Text / A Treatise of Human Nature, book III / Of the Original Contract
THOMAS REID:
Biography and Notes on the Text / Essays on the Active Powers of Man, essay III, part III; essay V
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU:
Biography and Notes on the Text / The Social Contract / A Discourse on the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind
IMMANUEL KANT:
Biography and Notes on the Text / Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals / Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Right (Part I of The Metaphysics of Morals)