柏拉图

雅典柏拉图（公元前429-347）是最早的欧洲思想家，其关于政治的思想在很大程度上存活。他的工作，包含在共和国，政治家，法律和未完成的克里克里亚，在其他作品中对西方政治思想议程及其内容作出了重大贡献。

[In The Republic, Plato’s preoccupation was the concept of the just individual and the just state.] His view that intellect and political authority should be correlated has been a major theme of political thought down the centuries, influencing both authoritarian and egalitarian attitudes to government and democracy. In his later work Plato’s concern shifted from the question of justice to questions of the competence of rulers, which in The Statesman he treated as of the first importance, and eventually to the role of law and a mixed constitution, along with religion, in guaranteeing political order.

此权威选择的论文探讨了柏拉图思想的各个方面，包括社会结构，教育，自由，财产，以及他对法律，原因和正义的看法外的社会结构，人类动机和种族主义。涵盖了广泛的主题介绍了柏拉图的工作如何宣布当今的政治思想的许多问题，并且确实在我们现代的年龄仍然是相关的。