⬅️ Back to 60.9 Philosophy · Sister MOCs: 60 Knowledge/60.9 Philosophy/60.9.3 Branches/60.9.3.2 Ethics/60.9.3.2 Ethics · Schools of Thought (MOC) · Philosophers (MOC) · Cross-folder: 60.3 Politics
Where ethics meets power: what the state may do, where rights come from, and what justice requires. Visual maps: Attachment (file not included in this release) · Attachment (file not included in this release) · Attachment (file not included in this release). Database view: Attachment (file not included in this release).
Justice & the Good Society
- Justice · Democracy · Markets, Free Speech and the Common Good
- Law Is Not Value-Free — legal validity, moral interpretation, neutrality, legal moralism, and common-good government
- Cross-branch → Egalitarianism · Contractualism
Rights — Where Do They Come From?
- Natural Rights · Grounding of Rights · Critique of Natural Rights
- Applied dispute → Socioeconomic human rights: claimability, feasibility, and the strongest defense
- Rights Without Religion - Historical Philosophical Perspectives
- Cross-branch → Rights
The Contract Tradition
Liberty & Its Limits
- Positive and Negative Liberty · Freedom
- Libertarianism · Neoliberalism
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia — Nozick’s entitlement theory and minimal-state argument
- Debate map → Andrew Wilson vs Dave Smith - Libertarianism and Christian Populism Argument Map
- Robert Nozick · John Stuart Mill
Ideologies & Regime Types
- Cross-folder hub → Fascism — definitions, historical development, movement power, and classification guardrails
- Fascism: A Quick Immersion — Roger Griffin — palingenetic ultranationalism, Italian periodization, and neo-fascism (book note in this folder)
- Patriarchy
- Contemporary ideology map → Andrew Wilson - Political Ideology, Philosophical Foundations, and Program
- Nationalism Debate Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony Lex Fridman Podcast 256
- Cross-branch → Objectivism · Critical Theory · Frankfurt School
Thinkers of Power
- The canon → Machiavelli · Montesquieu · Edmund Burke · Karl Marx · Mary Wollstonecraft
- The realists → Carl Schmitt · Gaetano Mosca · Leo Strauss
- The outliers → Julius Evola · Jean Baudrillard
Primary Texts
- Ancient → Plato - The Republic Notes · Politics - Aristotle · Cicero On the Commonwealth and On the Laws - Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Modern → The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli · Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes · Locke Two Treatises of Government Student Edition - John Locke · The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Jean-Jacques Rousseau · J S Mill 'On Liberty' and Other Writings - John Stuart Mill
- Contemporary → A Theory of Justice - John Rawls · A Conflict of Visions - Thomas Sowell · How to be a conservative - Roger Scruton · Communism in Power
- Confessions of a Heretic — Roger Scruton — accountable government, the pre-political “we,” citizenship, and the limits of Scruton’s civilizational claims
Courses & Surveys
- — authority, rights, distributive justice and historical readings beside Main
- Yale Course - What is Political Philosophy · Moral Foundations of Politics - Yale Courses
- An Introduction to Political Philosophy by J. Wolff · An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Jonathan Wolff
- The Philosophy of Politics - Part I - Peterson Academy · The Philosophy of Politics - Part 2 - Peterson Academy
- The Conservative Tradition - Great Courses · Political Ideologies
- The History of Political Thought - Richard Whatmore · History of Political Philosophy - Leo Strauss
Housekeeping
- TIMELINE ·
- Legacy index → 60.9.3.4 Political Philosophy
Handwritten Notebook Topics
- Property Rights — justifications, limits, and competing theories
- Political Fusionism — the traditionalist-libertarian conservative coalition
- Fascism: A Quick Immersion — Roger Griffin — Griffin reading notes, notebook pp. 27–28 (page photos embedded)
Base index
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Filed captures and working notes — October 2026
Comparative political philosophy and historical arguments
- Debate - Liberalism vs Conservatism — preserved working note or source capture
- Liberty First — preserved working note or source capture
- Patriotism — preserved working note or source capture
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