这是一部有关西方**政治思想家的生平活动、思想特点及主要著作摘要的选集，从柏拉图到伯林、哈耶克，基本涵盖了西方政治思想起源、发展的整个过程。其锁定的主要读者群应该是那些对西方政治思想史有足够兴趣的青年学子。
本书突出优点是为读者描绘了一幅全面、清晰、系统的西方政治思想史的全景图，并通过作者的分析，使读者得以深入理解诸多思想家的思想精髓与发展脉络。但这种学习方法又有其不足之处，这些书更多反映的是作者的理解与思考。

PARY 1
ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL
1 ROOTS OF THE WEST
2 THE GREEK DISCOVERY OF REASON IN NATURE
3 PLATO
The Republic
4 ARISTOTE
Politics
5 POLYBIUS
The Histories
6 CICERO
The Republic and The Laws
7 STOICISM AND EPICUREANISN
TWO HELLENISTIC PHILOSORHIES
Epictetus ,The Discourese and The Manual
Marcus Aurelius ,Meditations
Epicurus ,Letter to Menoeceus and Principal
Doctrines
8 THE JEWISH BELIEF IN ONE GOD,AND CHRISTIAN LOVE
9 ST AUGUSTINE
10 JOHN OF SALIBBURY
11 ST THOMAS AQUINAS
12 DANTE
13 MARSILIO OF PADUA
PAPT II
14 MACHIAVELLI
15 THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
16 BODIN
17 HOBBES
18 LOCKE
19 MONTESQUIEU
20 HUME
21 ROUSSEAU
22 KANT
23 SMITH
24 BURKE
PART III
25 BENTHAM
26 TOCQUEVILLE
27 MILL
28 HEGEL
29 REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNISM
30 NIETZSCHE
31 FASCISM
32 FREUD
33 GANDHI
34 FROM CLASSICAL LIBRALISM TO DEMACRATIC SOCIALISM
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