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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder

Political Philosophy

Key Themes

* The social and political philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.

* The Medieval natural law theories of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.

* The transition between the natural law tradition and the contractarian tradition in Thomas Hobbes' social and political philosophy.

* The contractarian theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

* American Constitutional theory.

* Classic Liberalism.

* Marxism.