ABOUT THIS BOOK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Introduction

THUCYDIDES by David Bolotin

PLATO by Leo Strauss

XENOPHON by Christopher Braell

ARISTOTLE by Curnes Lord

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO by James E. Holton

ST. AUGUSTINE by Ernest L. Fortin

ALFARABI by Muhsin Mahdi

MOSES MAIMONIDES by Ralph Lerner

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS by Emext L. Fortin

MARSILIUS OF PADUA by Leo Strauss

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI by Leo Strauss

MARTIN LUTHER and JOHN CALVIN by Duncan B. Forrester

RICHARD HOOKER by Duncan B. Forrester

FRANCIS BACON by Howard B. White

HUGO GROTIUS by Richard H. Cox

THOMAS HOBBES by Laurence Berns

RENE DESCARTES by Richard Kennington

JOHN MILTON by Walter Berns

BENEDICT SPINOZA by Stanley Rosen

JOHN LOCKE by Robert A. Goldwin

MONTESQUIEU by David Lowenthal

DAVID HUME by Robert S. Hill

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU by Allan Bloom

IMMANUEL KANT by Pierre Hassner

WILLIAM BLACKSTONE by Herbert J. Storing

ADAM SMITH by Joseph Cropsey

THE FEDERALIST by Martin Diamond

THOMAS PAINE by Francis Canavan, SJ

EDMUND BURKE by Harvey Mansfield, Jr.

JEREMY BENTHAM and JAMES MILL by Timothy Fuller

GEORG W. F. HEGEL by Pierre Hassner

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE by Marvin Zetterbaum

JOHN STUART MILL by Henry M. Magid

KARL MARX by Joseph Cropsey

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE by Werner J. Dannhauser

JOHN DEWEY by Robert Horwitz

EDMUND HUSSERL by Richard Velkley

MARTIN HEIDEGGER by Michael Gillespie

EPILOGUE: Leo Strauss and the History of Political Philosophy by Nathan Tarcov and Thomas L. Pangle

INDEX