Great Books, Bad Arguments: Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto
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Why Plato, Hobbes, and Marx are great—despite their arguments
Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society that they want to bring into being? In this lively and provocative book, W. G. Runciman shows where and why they fail, even after due allowance has been made for the different historical contexts in which t...



