Political Philosophy: How should we be governed?

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.

In this collection

• Lysis
• Symposium
• Laws
• The Republican Proclamation
• Laches
• The Republic
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume XII
• Parmenides
• The Age of Reason
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Charmides
• Apology
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume VIII
• Phaedrus
• Timaeus
• Eryxias
• The Prince
• The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance
• Capital, Volume Two: The Process of Circulation of Capital
• Capital, Volume Three: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
• Common Sense
• Cratylus
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume VII
• Statesman
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