An edition of The politics book
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The politics book
1st American ed.
by Richard Gilbert
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"Exploring more than 100 big ideas on topics as diverse as the rule of law, the extent of liberty, and the justification of warfare, [this book] takes you on a journey through the history of politics, from the influential theories of ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia to modern concepts voiced by today's brightest political thinkers."--Front jacket flap.
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Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990), Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī, John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), José Martí (1853-1895), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Fei Han (-233 B.C), Winston Churchill Sir (1874-1965), Jean Bodin (1530-1596), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), José María Luis Mora (1794-1850), Auguste Comte (1798-1857), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Robert S. Nozick, Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), Paulo Freire (1921-1997), Smedley D. Butler (1881-1940), Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), Hirobumi Itō (1841-1909), Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), Plato, Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944), Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1870-1924), Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Confucius, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), Gianfranco Miglio, Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin kni︠a︡zʹ (1842-1921), Shīrīn ʻIbādī, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), P.-J Proudhon (1809-1865), Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), Marcus Tullius Cicero, Arne Næss, Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Malcolm X (1925-1965), Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), Noam Chomsky (1928-), Michael Walzer (1935-), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), Aristotle, Jane Addams (1860-1935), Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), Zedong Mao (1893-1976), Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814-1876), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Ayn Rand (1905-1982), James Madison (1751-1836), Johannes Althusius (1557-1638), Ernesto Guevara (1928-1967), Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), Georges Sorel (1847-1922), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), Michel Foucault (1926-1984), John Locke (1632-1704), Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430), Fārābī, Robert Anthony Pape (1960-), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), Max Weber (1864-1920), Yat-sen Sun (1866-1925), Marsilius of Padua (-1342?), Sunzi (active 6th century B.C), Jomo Kenyatta, Aleksandr Herzen (1812-1870), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Di Mo (active 400 B.C), Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), Giles of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges (approximately 1243-1316), Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi (1903-1979), Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938), Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406), Karl Marx (1818-1883), Francisco de Vitoria (1486?-1546), Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), Kauṭalya, Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932), Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), M. N. Roy (1887-1954), Charles de Secondat Montesquieu baron de (1689-1755), Muḥammad Prophet (-632), John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1931-), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), Gandhi Mahatma (1869-1948), John Rawls (1921-2002)Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Ancient political thought, 800 BCE-30 CE. If your desire is for good, the people will be good / Confucius ; The art of war is of vital importance to the state / Sun Tzu ; Plans for the country are only to be shared with the learned / Mozi ; Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils / Plato ; Man is by nature a political animal / Aristotle ; A single wheel does not move / Chanakya ; If evil ministers enjoy safety and profit, this is the beginning of downfall / Han Fei Tzu ; The government is bandied about like a ball / Cicero
Medieval politics, 30 CE-1515 CE.If justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers? / Augustine of Hippo ; Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you / Muhammad ; The people refuse the rule of virtuous men / Al-Farabi ; No free man shall be imprisoned, except by the law of the land / Barons of King John ; For war to be just, there is required a just cause / Thomas Aquinas ; To live politically means living in accordance with good laws / Giles of Rome ; The Church should devote itself to imitating Christ and give up its secular power / Marsilius of Padua ; Government prevents injustice, other than such as it commits itself / Ibn Khaldun ; A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word / Niccolò Machiavelli
Rationality and enlightenment, 1515-1770. In the beginning, everything was common to all / Francisco de Vitoria ; Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth / Jean Bodin ; The natural law is the foundation of human law / Francisco Suárez ; Politics is the art of associating men / Johannes Althusius ; Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves / Hugo Grotius ; The condition of man is a condition of war / Thomas Hobbes ; The end of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom / John Locke ; When legislative and executive powers are united in the same body, there can be no liberty / Montesquieu ; Independent entrepreneurs make good citizens / Benjamin Franklin
Revolutionary thoughts, 1770-1848. To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; No generally valid principle of legislation can be based on happiness / Immanuel Kant ; The passions of individuals should be subjected / Edmund Burke ; Rights dependent on property are the most precarious / Thomas Paine ; All men are created equal / Thomas Jefferson ; Each nationality contains its center of happiness within itself / Johann Gottfried Herder ; Government has but a choice of evils / Jeremy Bentham ; The people have a right to keep and bear arms / James Madison ; The most respectable women are the most oppressed / Mary Wollstonecraft ; The slave feels self-existence to be something external / Georg Hegel ; War is the continuation of Politik by other means / Carl von Clausewitz ; Abolition and the Union cannot coexist / John C. Calhoun ; A state too extensive in itself ultimately falls into decay / Simón Bolívar ; An educated and wise government recognizes the developmental needs of its society / José María Luis Mora ; The tendency to attack "the family" is a symptom of social chaos / Auguste Comte
The rise of the masses, 1848-1910.Socialism is a new system of serfdom / Alexis de Tocqueville ; Say not I, but we / Giuseppe Mazzini ; That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time / John Stuart Mill ; No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent / Abraham Lincoln ; Property is theft / Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ; The privileged man is a man depraved in intellect and heart / Mikhail Bakunin ; That government is best which governs not at all / Henry David Thoreau ; Communism is the riddle of history solved / Karl Marx ; The men who proclaimed the republic became the assassins of freedom / Alexander Herzen ; We must look for a central axis for our nation / Ito Hirobumi ; The will to power / Friedrich Nietzsche ; It is the myth that is alone important / Georges Sorel ; We have to take working men as they are / Eduard Bernstein ; The disdain of our formidable neighbor is the greatest danger for Latin America / José Martí ; It is necessary to dare in order to succeed / Peter Kropotkin ; Either women are to be killed, or women are to have the vote / Emmeline Pankhurst ; It is ridiculous to deny the existence of a Jewish nation / Theodor Herzl ; Nothing will avail to save a nation whose workers have decayed / Beatrice Webb ; Protective legislation in America is shamefully inadequate / Jane Addams ; Land to the tillers! / Sun Yat-Sen ; The individual is a single cog in an ever-moving mechanism / Max Weber
The clash of ideologies, 1910-1945. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith / Mahatma Gandhi ; Politics begin where the masses are / Vladimir Lenin ; The mass strike results from social conditions with historical inevitability / Rosa Luxemburg ; An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last / Winston Churchill ; The Fascist conception of the state is all-embracing / Giovanni Gentile ; The wealthy farmers must be deprived of the sources of their existence / Joseph Stalin ; If the end justifies the means, what justifies the end? / Leon Trotsky ; We will unite Mexicans by giving guarantees to the peasant and the businessman / Emiliano Zapata ; War is a racket / Smedley D. Butler ; Sovereignty is not given, it is taken / Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ; Europe has been left without a moral code / José Ortega y Gasset ; We are 400 million people asking for liberty / Marcus Garvey ; India cannot really be free unless separated from the British empire / Manabendra Nath Roy ; Sovereign is he who decides on the exception / Carl Schmitt ; Communism is as bad as imperialism / Jomo Kenyatta ; The state must be conceived of as an "educator" / Antonio Gramsci ; Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun / Mao Zedong
Postwar politics, 1945-present. The chief evil is unlimited government / Friedrich Hayek ; Parliamentary government and rationalist politics do not belong to the same system / Michael Oakeshott ; The objective of the Islamic jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system / Abul Ala Maududi ; There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men / Ayn Rand ; Every known and established fact can be denied / Hannah Arendt ; What is a woman? / Simone de Beauvoir ; No natural object is solely a resource / Arne Naess ; We are not anti-white, we are against white supremacy / Nelson Mandela ; Only the weak-minded believe that politics is a place of collaboration / Gianfranco Miglio ; During the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed tend to become oppressors / Paulo Freire ; Justice is the first virtue of social institutions / John Rawls ; Colonialism is violence in its natural state / Frantz Fanon ; The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X ; We need to "cut off the king's head" / Michel Foucault ; Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves / Che Guevara ; Everybody has to make sure that the rich folks are happy / Noam Chomsky ; Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance / Martin Luther King ; Perestroika unites socialism with democracy / Mikhail Gorbachev ; The intellectuals erroneously fought Islam / Ali Shariati ; The hellishness of war drives us to break with every restraint / Michael Walzer ; No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified / Robert Nozick ; No Islamic law says violate women's rights / Shirin Ebadi ; Suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation / Robert Pape.
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