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The History of Political Philosophy From Plato to Rothbard

The History of Political Philosophy From Plato to Rothbard is a free lecture series (10 recordings, 15.2 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with David Gordon.

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  1. 01

    Plato 2007

    David Gordon · 1:31:53 · 21.0 MB · Recorded 4 June 2007

    Philosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryWorld History

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  2. 02

    Aristotle 2007

    David Gordon · 1:32:31 · 21.2 MB · Recorded 5 June 2007

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  3. 03

    Thomas Aquinas 2007

    David Gordon · 1:29:16 · 20.4 MB · Recorded 5 June 2007

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  4. 04

    Thomas Hobbes 2007

    David Gordon · 1:32:29 · 21.2 MB · Recorded 6 June 2007

    Philosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryWorld History

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  5. 05

    John Locke 2007

    David Gordon · 1:30:57 · 20.8 MB · Recorded 6 June 2007

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2007

    David Gordon · 1:32:13 · 21.1 MB · Recorded 7 June 2007

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  7. 07

    Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel 2007

    David Gordon · 1:31:06 · 20.9 MB · Recorded 7 June 2007

    Philosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryLegal SystemWorld History

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  8. 08

    John Stuart Mill, Lysander Spooner and Herbert Spencer 2007

    David Gordon · 1:29:53 · 20.6 MB · Recorded 8 June 2007

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  9. 09

    John Rawls 2007

    David Gordon · 1:30:27 · 20.7 MB · Recorded 8 June 2007

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  10. 10

    Robert Nozick and Murray Rothbard 2007

    David Gordon · 1:32:30 · 21.2 MB · Recorded 9 June 2007

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Speakers

David Gordon.

Recording dates and topics for 10 of these 10 lectures come from the Mises Institute's page for The History of Political Philosophy From Plato to Rothbard, checked 2026-08-04.

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Is The History of Political Philosophy From Plato to Rothbard free to listen to?
Yes. All 10 mirrored recordings stream in the browser or download as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
How long is The History of Political Philosophy From Plato to Rothbard?
10 recordings, 15.2 hours in total.
Who lectures in The History of Political Philosophy From Plato to Rothbard?
David Gordon.
When was The History of Political Philosophy From Plato to Rothbard recorded?
2007, per the recording dates recovered for this series.
Is there a transcript of The History of Political Philosophy From Plato to Rothbard?
Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 102,876 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.