Outline of Political Science - Influential Literature

Influential Literature

  • The Art of War – by Sun Tsu (c. 544–496 BC)
  • The Republic – by Plato (427–347 BC)
  • Laws – by Plato (427–347 BC)
  • The Politics – Aristotle (384–322 BC)
  • Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle (384–322 BC)
  • Arthashastra – Chāṇakya

(c. 350–283 BC)

  • Meditations – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE
  • The Prince – by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
  • The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584––1645)
  • The Wealth of Nations – by Adam Smith (1723–1790)
  • On War – by Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831)
  • Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

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