Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill

Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince (in Italian and English translation) Thomas Hobbes - De Cive, The Elements of Law, Leviathan John Locke - Two Treatises of Civil Government Jean-Jacques Rousseau - On the Social Contract Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy David Hume - selected essays on politics and government; The Federalist Papers Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France Thomas Paine - The Rights of Man [Parts 1 and 2] Jeremy Bentham - A Fragment on Government, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, Considerations on Representative Government, Chapters on Socialism