Leo Strauss Natural Right and History
Strauss, Leo. Natural Right and History. United Kingdom: University of Chicago Press, 1953. This is an iconic reading of natural right and natural law in the early modern political thought. Often cited as a conservative…
John Locke Second Treatise on Government
Locke, John. Two treatises of government. India: Cambridge University Press, 1988.We know he read Hobbes. We have the appearance of the early modern themes of natural law and natural right. Social contract, right of rebellion and consent…
Arendt, What is Freedom?
This essay is the fourth in the book known as Between Past and Future. You can tell she is working on ideas about the concept of the will later expanded upon…
De Tocqueville Democracy in America
Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America explores the theme of a people. Its like a social study of different kinds of social groups he encountered in early America. What is…
Thomas Paine Common Sense
Paine, Thomas. Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine. United States: Penguin Publishing Group, 2003.Paine wrote in the context of the men of letters, or the pamphlet culture of England,…
The Federalist Papers and the Letters of Brutus
Hamilton, Alexander., Madison, James., Jay, John. The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Hamilton, Madison and John Jay wrote under the name of Publius. Suggested passagesNo.9, 14, 47-51vs. Letters of Brutus, No. I, II, and IV
J.J. Rousseau The Social Contract
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Rousseau: 'The Social Contract' and Other Later Political Writings. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1997.You know the saying that you have to visualize something before you can make it real? Well if Helen's…
Hobbes Leviathan
Hobbes, Thomas. Hobbes: Leviathan. Edited by Richard Tuck. Revised Student edition. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2002.I have the one with the plain blue cover.I was personally so fascinated by…