INTRODUCING POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Essential illustrated guide to key ideas of political thought. Philosophers have always asked fundamental and disturbing questions a bout politics. Plato and Aristotle debated the merits of democracy. The origins of society, the state and government authority were issues addressed by Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx and many other philosophers. Introducing Political Philosophy explains the central concepts of this intriguing branch of philosophy and presents the major political theorists from Plato to Foucault. How did governm ents get ...[Read more]