Thomas L. Pangle holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government and is Co-Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas, Austin. He is a lifetime Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has won Guggenheim, Killam-Canada Council, Carl Friedrich von Siemens, and four National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. He has been awarded the Benton Bowl (for contribution to education in politics) by Yale University and the Robert Foster Cherry Great Teacher of the World Prize by Baylor University. At the invitation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, he delivered the Werner Heisenberg Memorial Lecture at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich. He is the author of many books, most recently Aristotle's Teaching in the Politics (2013).
Part I. Classical Political Philosophy: 1. Plato's Apology of Socrates
2. Plato's Republic, book one
3. Aristotle's Politics
Part II. Biblical Political Theology: 4. The Bible
5. St Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law
Part III. Modern Political Philosophy: 6. Machiavelli's Discourses and Prince
7. Bacon's New Atlantis
8. Hobbes's Leviathan
9. Locke's Second Treatise of Government
10. Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
Part IV. Modernity in Question: 11. Rousseau's First and Second Discourses
12. Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto
13. Tocqueville's Democracy in America
14. Nietzsche and his Zarathustra.
