Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Thucydides David Bolotin
Plato Leo Strauss
Xenophon Christopher Bruell
Aristotle Carnes Lord Marcus
Tullius Cicero James E. Holton
St. Augustine Ernest L. Fortin
Alfarabi Muhsin Mahdi
Moses Maimonides Ralph Lerner
St. Thomas Aquinas Ernest L. Fortin
Marsilius of Padua Leo Strauss
Niccolo Machiavelli Leo Strauss
Martin Luther and John Calvin Duncan B. Forrester
Richard Hooker Duncan B. Forrester
Francis Bacon Howard B. White
Hugo Grotius Richard H. Cox
Thomas Hobbes Laurence Berns
Rene Descartes Richard Kennington
John Milton Walter Berns
Benedict Spinoza Stanley Rosen
John Locke Robert A. Goldwin
Montesquieu David Lowenthal David Hume Robert S. Hill
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Allan Bloom
Immanuel Kant Pierre Hassner
William Blackstone Herbert J. Storing
Adam Smith Joseph Cropsey
The Federalist Martin Diamond
Thomas Paine Francis Canavan, S.J.
Edmund Burke Harvey Mansfield, Jr.
Jeremy Bentham and James Mill Timothy Fuller
Georg W.F. Hegel by Pierre Hassner; translated by
Alexis de Tocqueville Marvin Zetterbaum
John Stuart Mill Henry M. Magid
Karl Marx Joseph Cropsey
Friedrich Nietzsche Werner J. Dannhauser
John Dewey Robert Horwitz
Edmund Husserl Richard Velkley
Martin Heidegger Michael Gillespie
Epilogue: Leo Strauss and the History of Political Philosophy Nathan Tarcov and Thomas L. Pangle
Index