The
fifth edition of Michael L. Morgan's Classics of Moral and Political
Theory broadens the scope and increases the versatility of this
landmark anthology by offering new selections from Aristotle's
Politics, Aquinas Disputed Questions on Virtue and Treatise on Law, as
well as the entirety of Locke s Letter Concerning Toleration, Kant's To
Perpetual Peace, and Nietzsche s On the Advantage and Disadvantage of
History for Life.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Preface to Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Plato 1
Apology 6
Crito 21
Phardo (death scene: 114d-118a) 29
Republic 32
Aristotle 247
Nicomachean Ethics 250
Politics (Bk. 1; Bk. II, 1-5, 9; Bk. III; Bk. IV; Bk. VII, 1-3, 13) 385
Epicurus 451
Letter to Menoeceus 453
Principal Doctrines 456
Epictetus 460
Encheiridion 462
Augustine 479
City of God, Bk. XIX (abridged) 481
Machiavelli 497
Letter to Vettori 499
The Prince 502
Discourses (Bk. I, 1-2; Bk. II, 1-2, 20, 29; Bk. III, 1, 9) 556
Hobbes 581
Leviathan (Dedicatory, Introduction, Pt. I-II, Review and Conclusion) 581
Locke 736
Second Treatise of Government 739
Hume 816
Treatise of Human Nature (Bk. II, Pt. III, Sec. iii; Bk. III, Pt. I, Sec. i-ii; Pt. II, Sec. i-ii) 818
Rousseau 845
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 847
On the Social Contract 908
Kant 980
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals 983
Mill 1031
On Liberty 1033
Utilitarianism 1101
Marx 1140
Alienated Labor 1142
On the Jewish Question 1150
Communist Manifesto 1168
Critique of the Gotha Program 1192
Nietzsche 1205
Beyond Good and Evil (Sec. 6-9, 16-44, 186-213, 257-62) 1208
