A conceptual toolkit for the study of political thought. New for this edition are new chapters on multiculturalism and global justice and recommended reading and citations updated throughout. This textbook gives you all the vocabulary you need - political, conceptual and historical - to engage confidently and deeply with political thought and the moral and political worlds in which we live.It traces the history of political thought from Plato and Aristotle to Benhabib and Rorty, following a unique dual structure that introduces key thinkers and core concepts.