Classical Reference Library
Explore enduring questions about political authority, justice, liberty, rights, equality, and the obligations of citizens, from early modern theories of sovereignty and social contract to later critiques of the state and economic power.
MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Ian Johnston examines why citizens should obey the state, comparing the political ideas of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Marx and their competing views of authority, liberty, equality, consent, and justice.
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