Links to political philosophy authors

Why study Political Philosophy?

Political philosophy is the study of the fundamental questions of human life generally and political life in particular. 

• Its first basic problem concerns the profound issue of human happiness: how should I live? Is the best way of life one devoted to the satisfaction of desire, the ethical and political virtue of a Lincoln or Washington, the intellectual excellence of a Socrates, religious faith and observance, or the poetry of a Shakespeare? 
• Its second central question is how should we live? What is justice, and what is the most just form of government?

Political philosophy explores all the central phenomena of human action and political choice in the light of its two central questions.

The webpage thegreatthinkers.org is devoted to exploring the ideas of the Great Thinkers of Political Philosophy. Here are the list of recommended authors for your study.

• Herodotus https://thegreatthinkers.org/herodotus/
• Plato https://thegreatthinkers.org/plato/
• Xenophon https://thegreatthinkers.org/xenophon/
• Thucydides  https://thegreatthinkers.org/thucydides/
• Aristotle https://thegreatthinkers.org/aristotle/
• Plutarch https://thegreatthinkers.org/plutarch/
• Augustine https://thegreatthinkers.org/augustine/
• Al-Farabi https://thegreatthinkers.org/al-farabi/
• Halevi https://thegreatthinkers.org/al-farabi/
• Maimonides https://thegreatthinkers.org/maimonides/
• Aquinas https://thegreatthinkers.org/aquinas/
• Machiavelli https://thegreatthinkers.org/machiavelli/
• Shakespeare https://thegreatthinkers.org/shakespeare-and-politics/
• Hobbes https://thegreatthinkers.org/hobbes/
• Spinoza https://thegreatthinkers.org/spinoza/
• Locke https://thegreatthinkers.org/locke/
• Hume https://thegreatthinkers.org/hume/
• Rousseau https://thegreatthinkers.org/rousseau/
• Smith https://thegreatthinkers.org/smith/
• Burke https://thegreatthinkers.org/burke/
• Kant https://thegreatthinkers.org/kant/
• Hegel  https://thegreatthinkers.org/hegel/
• Tocqueville https://thegreatthinkers.org/tocqueville/
• Mill  https://thegreatthinkers.org/mill/
• Marx https://thegreatthinkers.org/marx/
• Nietzsche https://thegreatthinkers.org/nietzsche/
• Heidegger https://thegreatthinkers.org/heidegger/