Introduction 1. Understanding Political Thought Early Classical Tradition 2. Significance of the Classical Tradition 3. Plato 4. Aristotle Renaissance Tradition 5. Nature of the Renaissance 6. Niccolo Machiavelli The Liberal Tradition 7. Broad Streams of Liberalism 8. Thomas Hobbes 9. John Locke 10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 11. John Rawls 12. Robert Nozick Conservative Tradition 13. Basic Tenets of Conservatism 14. Edmund Burke Utilitarian Tradition 15. Basic Tenets of Utilitarianism 16. Jeremy Bentham 17. John Stuart Mill Enlightenment Tradition 18. Nature of the Enlightenment 19. Immanuel Kant Idealist Tradition 20. Basic Tenets of Idealism 21. G.W.F. Hegel 22. T.H. Green Marxist Tradition 23. Basic Tenets of Marxism 24. Marx and Engels 25. Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao Zedong and Gramsci 26. Neo-Marxism Feminist Tradition 27. Basic Tenets of Feminism 28. Broad Streams of Feminist Thought Communitarian Tradition 29. Basic Tenets of Communitarianism Environmentalist Tradition 30. Basic Tenets of Environmentalist Tradition Contemporary Political Philosophers 31. Hannah Arendt 32. Michael Oakeshott
