Digital Library: Political Thought

Multiple links to free online Classics of Political, Social Sciences and Economic Thought.

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

  • The Athenian Constitution, translated to English by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon.
  • Nicomachean Ethics (350 BC), translated to English by W. D. Ross.
  • Politics, translated to English by Benjamin Jowett.

    • Augustine (354-430)

  • City of God (413-426), translated to English by Rev. Marcus Dods (1871)
  • City of God (413-426), original in Latin (De Civitate Dei).
  • City of God (413-426), translated to French (La cité de Dieu) by M. Saisset (1869).

    • Bodin, Jean (1530-1596)

  • Six Books of the Commonwealth (1576), translated to English by Richard Knolles (1606) & abridge by M.J. Tooley (1955).
  • Six Books of the Commonwealth (1576), orginal in French (Les six livres de la République).

    • Campanella, Tommaso (1568-1639)

  • City of the Sun (1602), English translation from Henry Morley, Ideal Commonwealths, P.F. Collier & Son, New York. 1901.
  • City of the Sun (1602), original in Italian (La Città del Sole).

    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC)

  • Treatise on the Commonwealth (54 BC), translated to English by Francis Barham (1841).
  • Treatise on the Commonwealth (54 BC), original in Latin (De Re Pvblica).

    • Clausewitz, Carl von (1780-1831)

  • On War (1832), translated to English by Colonel J.J. Graham (1873).
  • On War (1832), original in German (Vom Kriege).

    • Filmer, Sir Robert (1588-1653)

  • Patriarcha (1680), original in English.

    • Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645)

  • On the Law of War and Peace (1625), translated to English by A. C. Campbell (1814).
  • On the Law of War and Peace (1625), original in Latin (De Jure belli ac pacis).

    • Hamilton, Alexander (1755-1804), John Jay (1745-1829), and James Madison (1751-1836), as Publius

  • The Federalist Papers (1788), original in English.

    • Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)

  • Leviathan (1651), original in English.

    • Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946)

  • The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), original in English.

    • La Boétie, Étienne de (1530-1563)

  • Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548), translated to English by Harry Kurz (1942) under the title of Anti-Dictator.
  • Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548), transcribed to Modern French (Discours de la servitude volontaire) by Charles Teste (1836), followed by the original Old French version.

    • List, Friedrich (1789-1846)

  • The National System of Political Economy (1841), translated to English by Sampson S. Lloyd (1885).
  • The National System of Political Economy (1841), original in German (Das Nationale System der Politischen Ökonomie).

    • Locke, John (1632-1704)

  • A Letter Concerning Toleration (1st) (1689), translated to English by William Popple (1689).
  • Two Treatises of Government (1690), original in English.

    • Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527)

  • The Prince (1513), translated to English by W. K. Marriott (1908).
  • The Prince (1513), orginal in Italian (Il Principe).
  • Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (1513-1519), translated to English by Ninian Hill Thomson (1883).
  • Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (1513-1519), translated to English by Christian E. Detmold (1882).

    • Marx, Karl (1818-1883)

  • Communist Manifesto (1948), translated to English by Samuel Moore (1888).
  • Communist Manifesto (1948), original in German (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei)

    • Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de (1689-1755)

  • The Spirit of Laws (1748), translated to English by Thomas Nugent (1752), revised by J. V. Prichard (1914?).
  • The Spirit of Laws (1748), original in French (De l'esprit des lois), with modernized orthograph.

    • More, Thomas (1478-1535)

  • Utopia (1516), translated to English by Ralph Robynson (1551), edited and modernized by Henry Morley (1885 & 1901).
  • Utopia (1516), original in Latin.

    • Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)

  • Thus Spake Zarathustra (1891), translated to English by Thomas Common (1909).

    • Plato (427-347 BC)

  • Laws, translated to English by Benjamin Jowett.
  • The Republic, translated to English by Benjamin Jowett.
  • The Republic, original in Greek (Politeia).
  • Statesman, translated to English by Benjamin Jowett.

    • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)

  • A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755), translated by G. D. H. Cole (1913).
  • A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755), original in French (Discours sur l'inégalité) .
  • Social Contract (1762), translated by G. D. H. Cole (1913).
  • Social Contract (1762), original in French (Du contrat social).

    • Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

  • The Wealth of Nations (1776), original in English.

    • Weber, Max (1869-1924)

  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-5), original in German (Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus)