Classics of political philosophy

Classic Texts in Political Philosophy

(This list is more or less chronological)

• The Republic by Plato
• The Laws by Plato
• Gorgias by Plato
• Phaedrus by Plato
• The Phaedo by Plato
• The Apology of Socrates by Plato
• Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians by Xenophon
• History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
• The Politics by Aristotle
• Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
• Defensor pacis by Marsilius of Padua
• The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon
• Novum Organon by Francis Bacon
• The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• The Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• Nonsense on Stilts by Jeremy Bentham
• On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
• Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
• Utopia by Thomas More
• Essays Moral Political and Literary by David Hume
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Political Writings by Immanuel Kant
• The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
• On the Geneology of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Selected Writings by Karl Marx
• Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
• Being and Time by Martin Heidegger