Books by Scott John Hammond

In Plato's political theory we discover the essence of politics, which provides the requisite lessons to understand political as it is and should be. As there is a Form of the Good, there is a Form of the Polis, discerned in Plato's philosophy and as real for us as it was for him.

This book presents an examination of objective good, its priority over right, and its place as the central principle upon which both universal right and true political activity are based. From this the inward nature of politics is thus reconsidered, severing the political act from its false dependence on power and interest, and rehabilitating our vision of politics through a return to its essence in the Good in-itself and the principles of natural law and natural right.