Social and political philosophy : [electronic resource] readings from Plato to Gandhi / edited by John Somerville and Ronald E. Santoni.

Includes bibliography.

Plato. The republic ; The crito (unabridged) -- Aristotle. Politics -- Niccolò Machiavelli. The prince ; Discourses -- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan -- John Locke. The second treatise on civil government -- Jean Jacques Rousseau. The social contract -- Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence (unabridged) ; Act for establishing religious freedom (unabridged) ; Letters -- Henry David Thoreau. On the duty of civil disobedience (unabridged) -- John Stuart Mill. On liberty -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Manifesto of the communist party (Marx and Engels) ; Socialism : utopian and scientific (Engels) ; Contribution to the critique of political economy (Marx) -- V. I. Lenin. State and revolution -- Benito Mussolini. The doctrine of fascism (unabridged) ; Adolf Hitler. Mein kampf -- John Dewey. Reconstruction in philosophy ; Ethics (with James H. Tufts) -- M. K. Gandhi. Non-violent resistance.

Also issued online.