Ultimately these lectures teach us not only about some of the great thinkers in the history of moral and political philosophy but also about one of the great thinkers of our time cohen himself g a cohen 1941 2009 was the chichele professor of social and political theory at all souls college university of oxford from 1985 to 2008. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history of philosophy focusing instead on equality freedom and justice however throughout his career he regularly lectured on a wide range of moral and political philosophers of the past this volume collects these previously unpublished lectures. Lectures on the history of moral and political philosophy is the third and final volume of posthumously published collected papers by g a cohen the reader ne. Ultimately his lectures teach us not only about some of the great thinkers in the history of moral and political philosophy but also about one of the great thinkers of our time cohen himself keywords political philosophy g a cohen plato social contract theory equality freedom justice moral philosophy karl marx aristotle