Political Theory Resources
     

Below are links to online texts, author biographies, and miscellaneous links for some of the most important philosophers in Western thought. Please email me if you have any new links or found some expired links. --Joel Olson, Northern Arizona University

Thucydides

Background

•   http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/thucydes.htm

Online versions of The Peloponnesian War

• http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html

Analysis

• http://www.livius.org/pb-pem/peloponnesian_war/peloponnesian_war.html
  
• http://www.willamette.edu/~sbasu/wv/Thucydides%20and%20War.htm
  
• http://www.temple.edu/ih/Thucydides/Perspectives/index.htm
  

Analysis of Pericles and the Funeral Oration

• http://people.hsc.edu/drjclassics/texts/pericles/pericles.shtm

Socrates & Plato

Greek philosophy sources

•   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/greekphi.htm

Online versions of "Euthyphro"

• http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html

Online versions of the "Apology"

• http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html

Online versions of "Crito"

• http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html

Online versions of the Republic

Biography

• Coming soon

Explanations of the forms

• http://www.fred.net/tzaka/plato1.html
• http://www-phil.tamu.edu/%7Esdaniel/Notes/plato.html

The Tripartite Soul

Aristotle

Greek philosophy sources

•   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/greekphi.htm

Texts written by Aristotle

• http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html has a huge selection of Aristotle's works, including Politics.. Go to this page and click on "Aristotle."
• http://www.baylor.edu/~Scott_Moore/aristotle.html

Life and ideas

• http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm
• http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.html
• http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Aristotle.html
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/
• http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciHal2.htm
• http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciStra.htm
• http://www.briantaylor.com/aristotle.htm
• http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm

Aristole web sites

• http://members.tripod.com/~batesca/aristotle.html
• http://www.bartleby.com/65/ar/Aristotl.htm
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/
• http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Aris

A definition of teleology

• http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/TELE.HTM

Sophocles

Biography

• http://www.vroma.org/~riley/sophocles/portrait_links.html
• http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc1.htm
• http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/sophocles001.html
• http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/sophocles_001.html
• http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/sophocles.html
• http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/sophocles.htm
• http://www.bartleby.com/65/so/Sophocle.html
• http://www.bartleby.com/people/Sophocle.html
• http://www.online-literature.com/sophocles/
• http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_sophocles.html
• http://www.crystalinks.com/sophocles.html
• http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/literature/sophocles.htm
• http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=118260

Works by Sophocles

Antigone

• http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates017.html
• http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html

other literature by Sophocles

• http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa111897.htm
• http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sophocles
• http://www.monologuearchive.com/s/sophocles.html
• http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/sophocles.html
• http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/antigone.htm
• http://www.greece.com/library/Sophocles.html

Links

• http://www.temple.edu/classics/antigone.html
• http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/sophocle.htm
• http://www.questia.com/SearchNoAuthMediator.qst?af=1&action=1&act=kwrdOnly&keywords=sophocles&AID=10281310&PID=1112457

Niccolo Machiavelli

Online versions of The Prince

• http://www.bartleby.com/36/1/
• http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/machiavelli.html
• http://www.the-prince-by-machiavelli.com/the-prince/title.html

Biography and analysis

• http://www.the-prince-by-machiavelli.com/niccolo-machiavelli-biography.html

• http://www.pindeldyboz.com/pskindergarten.htm

   

Web sites

• http://www.the-prince-by-machiavelli.com/

Online discussion

• http://westerncanon.com/cgibin/lecture/NicoloMachiavellihall/wwwboard.html

Rene Descartes

Life and Ideas

• http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/descarte.htm
• http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/desc.htm
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-works/

Texts by Descartes

• Meditations on First Philosophy

Web sites on Descartes

• http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/desc.htm

John Locke

Online versions of Second Treatise of Government

• http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Locke/second/second-frame.html

Online version of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

• http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/locke_understanding.html

Biography and analysis

• http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/locke.htm
• http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/locke.html

Web sites on Locke

• http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/locke/home.htm

The Declaration of Independence

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Biography and analysis

• http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target=@DOCTITLE Rousseau Jean Jacques
• http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Rous
• http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/rous.htm

Online texts

• On the Social Contract
• Discourse on the Origins of Inequality

Biography and analysis

• http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/ENLIGHT/ROUSSEAU.HTM
• http://www.historyguide.org/europe/rousseau.html

Rousseau web sites

• http://www.wabash.edu/rousseau/
• http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96jun/rousseau.html

Immanuel Kant

Life and ideas

• http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/k/kantmeta.htm (includes Kant's critique of rationalism & empiricism)
• http://www.connect.net/ron/kant.html

Web sites on Kant:

• http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/Kant.html
• http://comp.uark.edu/~rlee/semiau96/kantlink.html
• http://www.friesian.com/kant.htm
• http://www.erraticimpact.com/~modern/html/modern_immanuel_kant.htm

John Stuart Mill

Online texts:

• On Liberty
• Other writings

Biographies

• http://www.utilitarianism.com/jsmill.htm
• http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/milljs.htm

Web sites on Mill

• http://www.tocqueville.org/
• http://www.tocqueville.org/chap1.htm
• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html
• http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_alexis_tocqueville.html
• http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_1133.asp
• http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/tocqueville.htm
• http://www.kevincmurphy.com/deTocqueville.html
• http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/t/tocquevi.asp
• http://faculty.law.lsu.edu/ccorcos/resume/tocquebib.htm
• http://www.co.riverside.ca.us/depts/courts/tocqeeee.htm

Karl Marx

Marx website and texts

• http://www.marxists.org

Biography and background to Marx

Friedrich Nietzsche

Brief biography of Nietzsche

Links

• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/ (a longer biography)
• http://www.erraticimpact.com/~19thcentury/html/nietzsche.htm
• The Friedrich Nietzsche Society

W.E.B. Du Bois

Online versions of The Souls of Black Folk

• http://www.bartleby.com/114/index.html

Biography

• http://members.tripod.com/~DuBois/jenn.html

Links

• http://members.tripod.com/~DuBois/

Malcolm X

Web sites on Malcolm X

• The Malcolm X Museum
• http://www.brothermalcolm.net/
• http://www.malcolm-x.org/
• http://www.malcolmx.de/

Speeches

• "The Ballot or the Bullet"
• "Message to the Grass Roots"
• Malcolm X's final speech
• link to numerous speeches

Bibliography

• http://www.evanston.lib.il.us/library/bibliographies/malcolmx.html

Ossie Davis's eulogy of Malcolm X

Sojourner Truth

Biography and Narratives

• http://www.noho.com/sojourner/
• http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm
• http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/truth/1850/1850.html
• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TRUTH/cover.html
• http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/nsotrue.html
• http://www.webcom.com/~duane/truth.html
• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9840/sojourn.html
• http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/truth_s.htm
• http://www.nisto.com/wct/who/sojourn.html
• http://www.topicsites.com/sojourner-truth/
• http://www.civilwarhome.com/truthbio.htm
• http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Sojourner_Truth/The_Narrative_of_Sojourner_Truth/
• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAStruth.htm
• http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/great/2farhana.htm
• http://eserver.org/fiction/sojourner-truth.txt
• http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/struth.htm
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.html
• http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/bltruth.htm
• http://emma.la.asu.edu/TESNEWS/4_VOL/No_3/sojourner_person.html
• http://www.topicsites.com/sojourner-truth.htm
• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/fr_hunt5.html

Michel Foucault

Biography

Speeches

• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/VideoTest/foucault-cult2.ram

Understanding Foucault

• http://foucault.info
• An analysis of Discipline and Punish
• http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-fou1.htm

Links

• http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html

Buddha

Biography

• http://www.aboutbuddha.org/
• http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/buddha.html
• http://www.fwbo.org/buddha.html

Buddhism

• http://www.san.beck.org/EC9-Buddha.html
• http://www.gotaro.homestead.com/
• http://www.fundamentalbuddhism.com/
• http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/dhamma/dham-hp.htm
• http://www.apologeticsindex.org/b13.html
• http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/bud-ser.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha  

Research on Buddha and Buddhism

• http://www.buddhanet.net/bvk_study/bvk002.htm
• http://humanists.net/pdhutcheon/humanist%20articles/buddha.htm
• http://www.metta.lk/IBRIC/
• http://www.academon.com/lib/essay/buddha.html
• http://www.vri.dhamma.org/research/

Bhagavad-Gita

About the Bhagavad-Gita

• http://eawc.evansville.edu/essays/de.htm
• http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/gita-sr/nbg-hp.htm
• http://www.friesian.com/gita.htm
• http://www.4to40.com/discoverindia/bhagavadgita.asp
• http://www.bartleby.com/65/bh/Bhagavad.html

The Bhagavad-Gita

• http://www.asitis.com/
• http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/gita.htm
• http://www.iconsoftec.com/gita/
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/bhagavadgita.html
• http://www.bartleby.com/45/4/

Works on the Gita

• http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/gita/bg-eg-hp.htm
• http://www.dvaita.org/shaastra/gita/prabhupada_review.shtml
• http://members.aol.com/jajnsn/

Confucius

Biography and Confucianism

• http://chineseculture.about.com/msubconfucius.htm?once=true&
• http://www.san.beck.org/EC14-Confucian.html
• http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Philosophy/Philosophers/Confucius__551_479_BC_/
• http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/Asian/TempleCulture.html
• http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99apr/9904confucius.htm
• http://www.heptune.com/confuciu.html
• http://www.island-of-freedom.com/CONFUCIUS.HTM
• http://www.mrdowling.com/613-confucius.html
• http://www.erraticimpact.com/~ancient/html/confucius.htm
• http://www.classicallibrary.org/confucius/

Works by Confucius

The Analects by Confucius

• http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/analects.htm
• http://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/analects.html
• http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/confucius.html
• http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/analects.html

Other works by Confucius

• http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Confucius.html
• http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Confucius/
• http://www.bartleby.com/44/1/
• http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp?AUTHOR_ID=195

Links

• http://www.friesian.com/confuci.htm
• http://www.confucius.org/main01.htm
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/
• http://zhongwen.com/rujia.htm
• http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CHPHIL/CONF.HTM
• http://www.san.beck.org/C&S-Contents.html
• http://www.crystalinks.com/confucius.html
• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Bridge/8744/
• http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Philosophy/Philosophers/Confucius__551_479_BC_/
• http://dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/C/Confucius/
• http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_343.asp
• http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=117737

bell hooks

Links

• http://www.infoshop.org/hooks.html
• http://www.shambhalasun.com/Archives/Columnists/Hooks/HooksJan99.htm

Miscellaneous political philosophy links

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet

Indexes and search engines

• Philosophy Research Base
• The Paideia Project Online
• Political Philosopher's Page