Social and Political Philosophy: Readings From Plato to Gandhi

by John Somerville (Editor)

Other authors: Aristotle (Contributor), John Dewey (Contributor), Friedrich Engels (Contributor), M. K. Gandhi (Contributor), Adolf Hitler (Contributor) — 13 more, Thomas Hobbes (Contributor), Thomas Jefferson (Contributor), V. I. Lenin (Contributor), John Locke (Contributor), Niccolo Machiavelli (Contributor), Karl Marx (Contributor), John Stuart Mill (Contributor), Benito Mussolini (Contributor), Plato (Contributor), Jean Jacques Rousseau (Contributor), Ronald E. Santoni (Editor), Henry David Thoreau (Contributor), James H. Tufts (Contributor)

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An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Thoreau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Dewey, and Gandhi.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Somerville, John	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Aristotle	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dewey, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Engels, Friedrich	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gandhi, M. K.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hitler, Adolf	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hobbes, Thomas	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Jefferson, Thomas	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Lenin, V. I.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Locke, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Machiavelli, Niccolo	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Marx, Karl	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Mill, John Stuart	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Mussolini, Benito	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Plato	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Rousseau, Jean Jacques	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Santoni, Ronald E.	Editor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Thoreau, Henry David	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Tufts, James H.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Thoreau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Dewey, and Gandhi.

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