Talk:List of classics of political philosophy

This list is not very balanced. Some writers (Plato, Bacon) get a lot of attention, while others get none; Heidegger is the only contemporary philosopher on the list and Marsilius the only medieval one. Of some writers it is not made clear why they should be on the list. I propose changing the list using rules like "only one book per writer", "no books that have no wikipedia article", "no more than twenty titles", to increase the quality of the list. It might be useful to write behind. Below I have listed some other lists of classics, as inspiration

Index of the Princeton Readings in Political Thought, M. Cohen and N. Fermon (eds.)

Ancient
 * Pericles' Funeral Oration by Thucydides
 * The Apology by Plato
 * The Republic by Plato
 * The Politics by Aristotle
 * '"On the Republic'' by Cicero

Medieval
 * City of God by Augustine
 * Politics and Law by Thomas
 * The Book of the City of the Ladies by Christine de Pizan

Modern
 * The Prince by Machiavelli
 * Discourse on Livy by Machiavelli
 * The Christian in Society by Luther
 * God and Political Duty by Calvin
 * Leviathan by Hobbes
 * '"Second Treatise of Government'' by Locke
 * On the Social Contract by Rousseau
 * Discourse on Inequality by Rousseau
 * The Wealth of Nations by Smith
 * Federalist Papers by Publius
 * Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen
 * Reflections on the Revolution in France by Burke
 * Declaration on the Rights of Women and Citizens by de Gouges
 * A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Wollstonecraft
 * An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Bentham
 * On Liberty by Mill
 * On the Subjection of Women by Mill
 * Democracy in America by de Tocqueville
 * The Philosophy of Right by Hegel
 * A Contribution to the Critique of Politican Economy by Marx
 * Estranged Labour by Marx
 * The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
 * After the Revolution by Marx
 * '"Capital'' by Marx
 * On the Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche

Contemporary
 * Politics as a Vocation by Weber
 * The Ruling Class by Mosca
 * Political Parties by Michels
 * What is to be done by Lenin
 * The State and Revolution by Lenin
 * Civilization and Its Discontents by Freud
 * Totem and Taboo by Freud
 * Why War by Freud
 * '"Victims of Morality'' by Goldman
 * Fascism by Mussolini
 * The Origins of Totalitarianism by Arendt
 * Politics and the English Language by Orwell
 * The Second Sexe by de Beauvoir
 * The Wretched of the Earth by Fanon
 * Letters from the Birmingham Jail by MLK
 * The Ballot or the Bullet by Malcom X
 * What is Political Philosophy by Strauss
 * In Defense of Equality by Walzer
 * A Theory of Justice by Rawls
 * Anarchy, State and Utopia by Nozick
 * The Public Sphere by Habermass
 * Discipline and Punish by Foucault

Alternatively one could look at the list of Template:Political Ideology and pick the most important writer/piece of each:
 * Anarchism What is Property by Proudhon
 * Christian-Democracy Rerum Novarum by Leo XIII
 * Zionism Der Judenstaat by Herzl
 * Communism What is to be done? by Lenin
 * Communotarianism After Virtue by McIntyre
 * Conservatism Reflections on the Revolution in France by Burke
 * Fascism Fascism by Mussolini
 * Nazism My Struggle by Hitler
 * Green Politics Ecology, Community, Lifestyle by Naess
 * Islamism ?
 * Liberalism On Liberty by Mill
 * Libertarianism Anarchy, State and Utopia by Nozick
 * Socialism Das Kapital by Marx
 * Progressivism ?

And then we would have filter out the best twenty-five. Any volunteers? C mon 20:30, 15 June 2006 (UTC)