This edition includes two important texts illustrating Kants's view of history along with notes and a comprehensive bibliography.

This work consists of two parts: The Idea of Public Reason Revisited , published in 1997, and The Law of Peoples , a reworking of an article published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism and on some pressing problems of our times.

How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? Milton Friedman presents his view of the proper role of competitive capitalism both as a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom

Contains material about the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann.

Aims to provide a clear and accessible introduction to some of the most important questions of political philosophy. Organized around major issues, this book provides the structure that beginners need, while also introducing some distinctive ideas of the author.

Includes straddling analytic and continental philosophy which considers the contributions of economics, history, law, political science, international relations to normative political thought. This book provides analysis of eight live political ideologies, including chapters on Cosmopolitanism and Fundamentalism, and discussions of key concepts.

First published in 1997, this selection of Berlin's work includes his defence of philosophy and history against assimilation to the methods of science, his seminal essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism. These are followed by studies of intellectual originators, Russian writers and some of his most distinguished contemporaries.

This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context.

Drawing on more than 500 years of history, this title explores the causes of the crisis in moral description and shows how attempts to formulate moral principles had grown progressively more difficult in the period after the Enlightenment. It explains what has driven moral philosophy into its quagmire and suggests ways out of it.

First published in 1792, this book was written in a spirit of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. The introduction discusses her ideas.

Intended for those seeking to understand ideas that have become the orthodoxy in the age of the globalized economy.

This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time. This revised edition reflects changes

An edition of Isaiah Berlin's classic of liberalism, Four Essays on Liberty , this book incorporates a fifth essay, and adds further pieces on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are available together. This book throws biographical light on Berlin's preoccupation with liberty in appendices drawn from his writings.

With its original contribution to the consideration of the most important social movements of our time, this book has become one of the greatest works of social theory written this century.

Offers both the rationale for the new regime and insights into Leninist politics.

Sandel traces the limits of liberalism to the conception of the person that underlies it, and argues for a deeper understanding of community than liberalism allows.

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia.

Presents the debate about the future of the world in the post-Cold War era. This book expands on the author's work to address the fundamental and far-reaching themes of the new millennium.