Classics of Moral and Political Theory

by Michael L. Morgan (Editor)

Anthology, Philosophy, Political Studies

Genres: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, Classics, Textbooks, Anthologies, Theory

1259 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Jermain · Rating 3 out of 5]

We covered a bit from this book in the course. However, the publication should have included all the books in their entirety, i.e., Hobbes' "Leviathan," which only has two its chapters.

[Sean Gill · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great selection of texts, but implementation of footnotes was often very sloppy—especially when they tended to be longer—and some of the translations gave me pause. Also a bit unwieldy and easily damaged. Great for introductory courses, though, especially given the price.

[pearl]

It would probably be healthy if I should learn more about political philosophy, ethics and that sort of stuff. I've avoided it for an embarrassingly long time now, mostly due to an irrational 'fear of arguing' (of course it's silly since I'm studying philosophy and it's all arguing anyway). Maybe it's more deeply rooted than that, iderno. But if I can't crash the course on Hist. of Pol. Thought next quarter, then I might as well do some poking around on my own.

[Polly Trout · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm travelling in India for 3 weeks, and my Quixotic plan has been to simultaneously get through as much of this behemoth as possible 1250 pages of original philosophical texts from Plato to Nietzsche. Originally I thought I would go through chronologically but after 50 pages of Plato, the Greeks defeated me yet again, and I started skipping around. Currently I'm reading Mill's "On Liberty".

[Joe Martin]

Classics of Moral and Political Theory by Michael L. Morgan (2001)

[Shanhui · Rating 4 out of 5]

havn't really finish all... it's too much! but i was juz still to print things out when I actually have this book-. -!