BIBLIOGRAPHY

BELOW ARE LISTED books from the authors I have discussed, in the translations I think the best (some of them are my own). If you want to become an advanced student of political philosophy, you should learn the original languages of these texts. Failing that—and who wants to wait to read Plato until he has learned Greek?—you should choose a literal translation done by someone who respects the thought of the author as opposed to someone who considers himself superior to this rather confused fellow.

 

Plato (427–347 B.C.). The Republic of Plato, trans. Allan Bloom; Laws, trans. Thomas Pangle; Apology of Socrates, in Four Texts on Socrates, trans. Thomas West and Grace Starry West.

Aristotle (384–322 B.C.). The Politics, trans. Carnes Lord; Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Hippocrates G. Apostle.

Thucydides (C. 460–C. 400 B.C.). History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. R. Crawley.

Cicero (106–43 B.C.). De re publica, trans. C. W. Keyes (Loeb edition).

Augustine (354–430). The City of God, trans. Marcus Dods.

Al-Farabi (ca. 878–950). The Political Regime, in Medieval Political Philosophy, ed. Ralph Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi.

Moses Maimonides (1135–1204). The Guide for the Perplexed, trans. Shlomo Pines. Intro. by Leo Strauss.

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). On Law, Morality, and Politics (excerpts), ed. William P. Baumgarth and Richard J. Regan, S. J.

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527). The Prince, trans. Harvey C. Mansfield; Discourses on Livy, trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626). New Atlantis.

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679). Leviathan.

John Locke (1632–1704). Two Treatises of Government; A Letter Concerning Toleration.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778). The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings, trans. Victor Gourevitch; On the Social Contract, trans. Roger Masters.

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804). Perpetual Peace and Other Essays, trans. Ted Humphrey.

Edmund Burke (1729–1797). Reflections on the Revolution in France; An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs.

G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831). The Philosophy of Right, trans. T. M. Knox; The Philosophy of History, trans. J. Sibree.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859). Democracy in America, trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop.

John Stuart Mill (1806–1873). On Liberty; Considerations on Representative Government.

Karl Marx (1818–1883). The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900). The Use and Abuse of History, trans. Adrian Collins; Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Walter Kaufmann.

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976). An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Ralph Manheim; Being and Time, trans. Joan Stambaugh.