Bibliography

Required Texts

The following texts (with the one noted exception) are available at Columbia University Bookstore. The store may bundle them together and offer a discount. I have also listed the publisher and ISBN for each in case you should want to order them online. You should always bring the text(s) under discussion to class.

  • Plato, Republic (Hackett), ISBN # 0872201368
  • Plato, Symposium and Phaedrus (Dover) (at Labyrinth Books for this section), 0486277984
  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World�s Classics), 019283407X
  • Aristotle, Politics (Hackett), 0872203883
  • Bible, New Revised Standard Ed. (Oxford), 0195283805
  • Augustine, The City of God (Penguin), 0140444262
  • al-Qur�an (Amana), 0915957779
  • St. Thomas Aquinas, On Politics and Ethics (Norton), 0393952436
  • Machiavelli, Selected Political Writings (Hackett), 087220247
  • XHans J. Hillerbrand, ed., The Protestant Reformation (Harper and Row), 0061313424
  • Ren� Descartes, Discourse on Method etc. (Hackett), 0872204200
  • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford World�s Classics), 0192834983
  • John Locke, Political Writings of John Locke (NAL/Mentor), 0451628616