CONTENTS

Introduction

Preface to the Fifth Edition

Preface to the First Edition

SOPHOCLES

Antigone

PLATO

Euthyphro

Apology

Crito

Phaedo Death Scene (115B1–118A17)

Republic

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

Politics (Bk. I; Bk. II, 1–5, 9; Bk. III; Bk. IV, 1–15, 16 [abridged]; Bk. VII, 1–3, 13, 15; Bk. VIII, 1–3)

EPICURUS

Letter to Menoeceus

Principal Doctrines

EPICTETUS

Encheiridion

AUGUSTINE

City of God (Bk. XIX [abridged])

AQUINAS

On Kingship (I, 1)

Summa Theologica (I–II, Q.90. 1–4, Q.91. 1–4, Q.94. 1–6, Q.95. 1–4, Q.96. 1–6; II–II, Q.40. 1, Q.42. 2, Q.66. 1–2)

Disputed Questions on Virtue [abridged] (On the Virtues in General, 1–9, 13; On the Cardinal Virtues, 1–2)

MACHIAVELLI

Letter to Francesco Vettori

The Prince

Discourses (Bk. I, 1–2; Bk. II, 1–2, 20, 29; Bk. III, 1, 9)

HOBBES

Leviathan (Dedicatory, Introduction, Pt. 1–2, Review and Conclusion)

LOCKE

Second Treatise of Government

A Letter Concerning Toleration

HUME

Treatise of Human Nature (Bk. II, Pt. III, Sec. III; Bk. III, Pt. I, Sec. I–II; Pt. II, Sec. I–II)

ROUSSEAU

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

On the Social Contract

KANT

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

To Perpetual Peace

MILL

On Liberty

Utilitarianism

The Subjection of Women

MARX

Alienated Labor

On the Jewish Question

Communist Manifesto

Critique of the Gotha Program

NIETZSCHE

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

On the Genealogy of Morality

WEBER

Politics as a Vocation