The Political Writings of St. Augustine
10 best books like The Political Writings of St. Augustine (Augustine of Hippo): On the Republic / On the Laws, The Politics and The Constitution of Athens, On Law, Morality, and Politics, De Monarchia (On the Monarchy), Three Treatises, The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), On the Citizen, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness, A Jonathan Edwards Reader
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0674992350 |
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0521484006 |
This new collection of Aristotle's political writings provides the student with all the necessary materials for a full understanding of his work as a political scientist. In addition to a revised and extended introduction, this expanded Cambridge Texts edition contains an extensive guide to further...
The second edition of Aquinas, On Law, Morality, and Politics retains the selection of texts presented in the first edition but offers them in new translations by Richard J. Regan--including that of his Aquinas, Treatise on Law (Hackett, 2000). A revised Introduction and glossary, an updated select...
De Monarchia (On the Monarchy)
Se il latino è Grammatica e il volgare è lingua naturale, il De vulgari eloquentia è una Bibbia ancora illibata, immune ai germi del protestantesimo; scritta in latino per i cattedratici comuni mortali, esalta il volgare come lingua del corpo e dello spirito, eleggendola a idioma dominante...
| Author | Martin Luther |
| ISBN | 0800616391 |
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years that followed, Luther clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In these writings Luther tried to frame his ideas in terms...
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0521424461 |
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as the Social Contract.The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau...
| Author | Thomas Hobbes |
| ISBN | 0521437806 |
De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to have been at least sanctioned...
| Author | J.G.A. Pocock |
| ISBN | 0691114722 |
The Machiavellian Moment is a classic study of the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness of the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. J.G.A. Pocock suggests that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which...
| Author | William Godwin |
| ISBN | 0140400303 |
I've had this one on the shelf for years, but something tells me that, in this day and age, it's an interesting time to finally crack it open. Here's the opening excerpt from the introduction by editor, Dr. Isaac Kramnick:
"Every political philosophy has its prophet and sacred text. For liberalism...
| Author | Jonathan Edwards |
| ISBN | 0300098383 |
Prepared by editors of the distinguished series The Works of Jonathan Edwards, this authoritative anthology includes selected treatises, sermons, and autobiographical material by early America’s greatest theologian and philosopher.
"Jonathan Edwards remains unequaled among...
| Author | Niccolò Machiavelli |
Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations, says David Wootton in his Introduction. In the pages that follow I...
Rawls does an excellent job of explaining the core philosophers of western liberalism along with critiques by Marx and to a lesser extent Rousseau. Even thought I was familiar with each of these thinkers, Rawls helped me gain a firm grasp on each along with an understanding of the development of liberalism....
| Author | Carter Lindberg |
| ISBN | 1557865752 |
This narrative description and analysis of the European Reformations of the sixteenth century begins with a chapter on the history and historiography of Reformation scholarship and concludes with an extended reflection on the Reformations' religious, social, and cultural legacies. The storyline...
| Author | Richard A. Norris Jr. |
| ISBN | 0800614119 |
Series Foreword I. Introduction Early Christology Initial Problems Justin Martyr, Melito of Sardis, Irenaeus of Lyon, Tertullian of Carthage, Origen of Alexandria Further Problems The Arians and Athanasius; Apollinaris of Laodicea; Theodore of Mopsuestia; Cyril, Nestorius, and Eutyches;...
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
| ISBN | 0521379172 |
Mill's tract, published in 1859, remains one of the most important and influential of all writings on "Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be exercised by society over the individual" (5). Mill attempts to define those limits as narrowly as possible, and leave as much...
| Author | Étienne Gilson |
| ISBN | 0268008019 |
In this final edition of his classic study of St. Thomas Aquinas, Etienne Gilson presents the sweeping range and organic unity of Thomistic philosophical thought. Gilson demonstrates that Aquinas drew from a wide spectrum of sources in the development of his thought—from Aristotle to the Arabic...
| Author | Russell Kirk |
| ISBN | 1882926994 |
Typically, I am a pretty great reader. I finish books quickly. But if book-reading-records were “broken”, this book did it for me.
It took me three weeks to read this whole book. Now, I have to add that that is at a ploddy speed. I didn't read for hours each day, and sometimes I didn't read at...
| Author | Henry Bettenson |
| ISBN | 0195012933 |
It took me one year and three months, but I've finally finished this comprehensive survey of writings relating to the Christian Church that I bought for the Church History class I audited last Fall. Reading just a little bit at a time eventually adds up! This collection was originally compiled in 1943...
| Author | Frederica Mathewes-Green |
| ISBN | 1557252866 |
This book took more time to read than its thickness would suggest because it is the type of material one needs to marinade in. I am already applying some if the principles, though not as holistically as the book suggests.
There are two things that rub me a little bit the wrong way about this book,...
| Author | Michael Oakeshott |
| ISBN | 0865970955 |
Rationalism in Politics,
first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics.
Oakeshott criticizes...
| Author | Karl Barth |
| ISBN | 0804206120 |
This is a quick read, and certainly a much more accessible introduction to Barth's thought that the infamous and multi-volumed Church Dogmatics. Very early in the three essays we see Barth's confusion in the midst of theological history: he claims that Kierkegaard had "no influence" on 19th century...
