Political science -- Early works to 1800 books

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is a foundational treatise of political science that opens with a personal…

Second Treatise of Government

John Locke

John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government is a foundational work of political philosophy that argues against…

The Republic

Plato

Plato’s Republic is a foundational work of classical literature that also functions as an early treatise on…

The Republic of Plato

Plato

The work is Plato’s Republic, a foundational treatise of political philosophy that opens with a vivid…

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, together with his treatises On the Nature of the Gods and On the…

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is a polemical pamphlet printed in Philadelphia in early 1776, aimed at the…

Gorgias

Plato

Plato’s Gorgias is a philosophical dialogue that pits Socrates against three prominent Athenian figures,…

The social contract & discourses

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The work is a scholarly edition that gathers Rousseau’s most influential political writings, culminating in…

Laws

Plato

Plato’s Laws is a sprawling philosophical dialogue that takes the form of a long conversation among three…

Politics: A Treatise on Government

Aristotle

The work is Aristotle’s second treatise, following his Ethics, and it opens by linking moral character to the…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

This volume gathers the later, often unpublished, writings of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, whose career…

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

Niccolò Machiavelli

Machiavelli, Volume I

Niccolò Machiavelli

The work opens with a vivid self‑portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli as a country dweller, describing a day spent…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

The volume presents a dense, documentary account of the political and financial turmoil surrounding the…

The Republic

Plato

Plato’s Republic is a philosophical dialogue that treats politics, justice and education as a single,…

The republic of Cicero Translated from the Latin; and Accompanied With a Critical and Historical Introduction.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman

Plato

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1

Benedictus de Spinoza

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)

Edmund Burke