Historical and Political Thought Syllabus

Herodotus
The History

Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War

Plato
The Trial and Death of Socrates

Aristotle
The Politics

Livy
The Rise of Rome: Books 1-5

Tacitus
Annals

Augustine
City of God

Aquinas
Treatise on Law

Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan

John Locke
Second Treatise of Government

Niccolo Machiavelli
Selected Political Writings

Rousseau
The Discourses and other
political writings

Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism

Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in
France

Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace and Other Essays

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America

Karl Marx
Selected Writings

Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals

W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk