Political Philosophy

The great argument about power and the state — from Plato’s Republic and Machiavelli’s Prince to the social contracts and revolutionary tracts of the modern age.

How should we be governed?

In this collection

• Euthydemus
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume IX
• Laws
• Parmenides
• Anti-Monarchal Essay
• Capital, Volume One: The Process of Production of Capital
• Lysis
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume V
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume IV
• Menexenus
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume XI
• Agrarian Justice
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume XII
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
• Protagoras
• Laches
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume X
• The American Crisis
• Symposium
• Philebus
• Emile
• Phaedrus
• The Social Contract
• Gorgias
• The Communist Manifesto
• Phaedo
• Sophist
• Meno
• Charmides
• Reflections on the Revolution in France
• The American Republic -- its Glories and its Dangers
• Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions, by a Columbian Patriot

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