Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Classical Political Theory
1: Origins: The Polis, Traditional Values, The Sophists
2: Socrates
3: Plato: The Defense of Justice
4: Plato: The Just City
5: Aristotle
6: Hellenistic Political Theory
Part II: Medieval Political Theory
7: The New Testament Background
8: St. Augustine
9: St. Thomas Aquinas and the High Middle Ages
10: Marsilius of Padua and Medieval Constitutionalism
11: Reformation Political Theory
Chronology
Index

About the Author

George Klosko works in both normative political theory and the history of political thought. His books include Political Obligations (Oxford, 2005) the Second Edition of The Development of Plato's Political Theory (Oxford, 2006). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy (2011), Chich he edited. He is Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

Klosko's introduction will serve the purposes of most undergraduate courses in the history of political theory very well, and especially those that wishes to structure their reading lists around the texts of Plato. ... [I]t will help students access these texts and see their relevance for the predicaments faced by each and every democratic citizen.
*Mark Fisher, LSE Review of Books*