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The 4th edition of Classics of Moral and Political Theory widens the breadth, depth, and appeal of this collection by featuring Paul Woodruff's translation of Sophocles' Antigone, Rodney Livingstone's translation of Weber's "Politics as a Vocation," and selections from Mill's The Subjection of Women; in addition C.D.C. Reeve's new translations of Plato's Republic (rendered into direct dialogue), Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo replace the translations of these works currently in use.

Michael L. Morgan is Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:


Introduction.
Preface to the Fourth Edition.
Preface to the First Edition.

SOPHOCLES: Antigone [Trans. P. Woodruff].

PLATO: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo (death scene: 114d-118a); Republic [Trans. C. D. C. Reeve].

ARISTOTLE: Nicomachean Ethics (from the 2nd edition [2000] of the Irwin Nicomachean Ethics). Politics (Bk. I; Bk. II, 1-5, 9; Bk. III; Bk. IV, 1-15, 16 [abridged]; Bk. Vii, 1-3, 13) [Trans. C. D. C. Reeve].

EPICURUS: Letter to Menoeceus; Principal Doctrines [Trans. B. Inwood & L. Gerson].

EPICTETUS: Encheiridion [Trans. N. White].

AUGUSTINE: City of God (Bk. XIX [abridged]) [Trans. D. Kries and M. Tkacz].

AQUINAS: On Kingship (I, 1); Summa Theologica (I-II, Q. 90. 1-4, Q. 91. 1-4, Q. 94. 1-6; II-II, Q. 40. 1, Q. 42. 2, Q. 66. 1-2) [Trans. R. J. Regan].

MACHIAVELLI: Letter to Francesco Vettori; The Prince; Discourses (Bk. I. 1-2; Bk. II, 1-2, 20, 29; Bk. III, 1, 9) [Trans. D. Wootton].

HOBBES: Leviathan (Dedicatory, Introduction, Pt. 1-2, Review and Conclusion).

LOCKE: Second Treatise of Government.

HUME: Treatise of Human Nature (Bk. II, Pt. III, Sec. iii; Bk. III, Pt. I, Sec i-ii; Pt. II, Sec. i-ii).

ROUSSEAU: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; On the Social Contract [Trans. D. Cress].

KANT: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals [Trans. J. Ellington].

MILL: On Liberty. Utilitarianism. The Subjection of Women.

MARX: Alienated Labor (from the 1844 Manuscripts). On the Jewish Question [Trans. L. D. Easton and K. H. Guddat]. Communist Manifesto; Critique of the Gotha Program [International Publishers Trans.].

NIETZSCHE: On the Genealogy of Morality [Trans. M. Clark and A. J. Swensen].

WEBER: Politics as a Vocation [Trans. R. Livingstone].