Lecture Series · Philosophy · Ten Lectures
The History of Political Philosophy
From Plato to Rothbard
Twenty-four centuries of argument about who should rule and by what right, taken in order and read closely. Gordon works through the case each thinker actually made rather than the summary of it, and shows where the Austrian answer comes from.
David Gordon
Senior Fellow, Mises Institute
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