Political Philosophy: Ancient to Renaissance

This is a textbook to a course in Early Political Philosophy or Early Political Theory. It consists of selections from original source material which are prefaced by historical and critical introductions and annotated.

Frontmatter

 * 1) Preface
 * 2) Maps of Places of Interest

The Sophists

 * 1) Protagoras Fragments
 * 2) Antiphon Fragments

The Early Historians

 * 1) Herodotus Selections
 * 2) Thucydides Selections

Plato

 * 1) The Euthyphro
 * 2) The Meno
 * 3) The Apology
 * 4) The Republic
 * 5) The Laws

Aristotle

 * 1) The Nicomachean Ethics Selections
 * 2) The Politics

Cicero

 * 1) De Re Publica Selections

St. Augustine

 * 1) The City of God Selections

St. Thomas Aquinas

 * 1) Summa Theologica Selections
 * 2) On Kingship

Medieval Islamic Philosophers

 * 1) Al-Farabi Selections
 * 2) Avicenna Selections
 * 3) Aberroes Selections

Niccolo Machiavelli

 * 1) The Prince
 * 2) The Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius Selections.