Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

List of illustrations

1 The virtuous ruler from The Allegory of Good and Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Photo © Archivio Iconografico S.A./Corbis

2 Plato and Socrates, frontispiece by Matthew Paris (d. 1259) for The Prognostics of Socrates the King.

The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, shelfmark MS. Ashm, 304, fol. 31v

3 Thomas Hobbes, defender of political authority

© Michael Nicholson/Corbis

4 How anarchists see political authority: Russian cartoon 1900

5 The Goddess of Democracy facing a portrait of Mao in Tiananmen Square, Beijing

© Jacques Langevin/Corbis Sygma

6 One way to invigorate democracy: politicians beware!

Cartoon by David Low, 5 September 1933 © Evening Standard/Centre for the Study of Cartoons & Caricature, University of Kent, Canterbury

7 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher of democracy

Musée Antoine Lecuyer, Saint-Quentin, France. Photo © Bettmann/Corbis

8 A controversial view of liberty, 1950

Cartoon by David Low, 15 February 1950 © Daily Herald/Centre for the Study of Cartoons & Caricature, University of Kent, Canterbury

9 Isaiah Berlin, the most widely read philosopher of liberty in the 20th century

Photo by Douglas Glass © J. C. C. Glass

10 John Stuart Mill, utilitarian, feminist, and defender of liberty

© Corbis

11 Justice from The Allegory of Good and Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Photo © Archivio Iconografico S.A./Corbis

12 John Rawls, author of the hugely influential A Theory of Justice

Private collection

13 The price of women’s liberation: the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst arrested outside Buckingham Palace, 1914

© 2003 TopFoto.co.uk/Museum of London/HIP

14 Muslims burn The Satanic Verses in Bradford, UK, 1989

© Corbis Sygma

15 Multicultural harmony: the Notting Hill Carnival, 1980

© Hulton Archive

16 Canadians rally for national unity against Quebec separatism, Montreal 1995

© Kraft Brooks/Corbis Sygma

17 Resisting globalization, US-style: Latvia 1996

© Steve Raymer/Corbis

18 Universal human rights: actors Julie Christie and Cy Grant marking UN Human Rights Day

© Hulton Archive

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