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Machine generated contents note: 1.Plato The Republic -- The Cave -- Plato and Socrates -- Thrasymachus and Glaucon -- Individual and state -- Divison of labour -- Rulers, Auxiliaries and Workers -- Role of women -- The myth of the metals -- The just state and the just individual -- The three parts...

Contents note continued: 4.Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince -- Human nature -- Virtu -- Cesare Borgia versus Agathocles -- Interpretations of The Prince -- Criticisms of The Prince -- Dates -- Glossary -- Further reading -- 5.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays -- Who was Montaigne? -- Scepticism -- Sto...

Contents note continued: Criticisms of Ethics -- Dates -- Glossary -- Further reading -- 9.John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding -- No innate principles -- Ideas -- Primary and secondary qualities -- Personal identity -- Language -- Criticisms of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding...

Contents note continued: The First Cause Argument -- Was Hume an atheist? -- Dates -- Glossary -- Further reading -- 13.Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract -- Social contract -- The general will -- Freedom -- The legislator -- Government -- Three types of government -- Criticisms of The Social...

Contents note continued: Glossary -- Further reading -- 17.Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Idea -- The world as idea -- The world as will -- Art -- Music -- Freewill -- Suffering and salvation -- Criticisms of The World as Will and Idea -- Dates -- Glossary -- Further reading -- 18.John St...

Contents note continued: Historical materialism -- Division of labour -- Ideology -- Revolution -- Criticisms of The German Ideology -- Dates -- Glossary -- Further reading -- 22.Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil -- The title -- The Will to Power -- On the prejudices of philosophers -- Truth...

Contents note continued: 25.A. J. Ayer Language, Truth and Logic -- The Verification Principle -- Strong and weak senses of Verifiability' -- Metaphysics and poetry -- Philosophy -- The problem of induction -- Mathematics -- Ethics -- Religion -- Criticisms of Language, Truth and Logic -- Dates -- G...

Contents note continued: Abandonment -- Anguish -- Despair -- Sartre's pupil -- Criticisms of Existentialism and Humanism -- Dates -- Glossary -- Further reading -- 29.Karl Popper The Open Society and Its Enemies -- What did Popper mean by an open society? -- Plato's totalitarian tendencies -- Hegel...

Contents note continued: Further reading -- 32.John Rawls A Theory of Justice -- The original position -- The liberty principle -- The fair equality of opportunity principle and the difference principle -- Criticisms of A Theory of Justice -- Dates.