Resource Guide:
Political Philosophy
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Political philosophy
- Political science
- Political science -- Philosophy
- Agent (Philosophy)
- Humanism
- Law (Philosophy)
- National socialism and philosophy
- Peace (Philosophy)
- Power (Philosophy)
- Ethics
- Justice (Philosophy)
- Utilitarianism
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Etica & Politica
- Journal of Applied Philosophy
- Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy
- The Journal of Political Philosophy
- Philosophy Compass
- Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
- Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy
- Review Journal of Political Philosophy
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Leviathan: or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil | JC 153 .H66 1947 |
| Republic | JC 71 .P513 2004 |
| The Politics of Aristotle | JC 71 .A41 B3 1960 |
| Contemporary Political Philosophy: an introduction | JA 83 .K95 1990 |
| The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality | BJ 55 .R11 |
| On Liberty and Other Essays | JC 585 .M74 1998 |
| Moral Principles and Political Obligations | JC 328 .S55 1979 |
| An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law | B65 .P68 1954 c. 2 |
| Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy | JA 71 .R297 2007 |
| Political Philosophy | JA 71 .S476 2008 |
| History of Political Philosophy | JA 81 .H58 1987 |
| The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy | JA 71 .S273 2003 |
| Political Thought and Political Thinkers | JA 83 .S52 1998 |
| Justice for Earthlings: Essays in Political Philosophy | JA 71 .M4565 2012 |
| Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy: Toward Progressive Confucianism | B 5233 .C6 A546 2012 |
| Philosophy, Politics, Democracy: Selected Essays | H 61.51 .C64 2009 |
| Is There a Duty to Obey the Law? | BJ 55 .W45 2005 |
| Classics of Moral and Political Theory | JA 79 .C59 2001 |