The Role of National Governments

For centuries political philosophers have debated the question of the proper role of sovereign governments. Both Plato and Aristotle devoted considerable energy and thought to this issue, as have Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and, in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, John Rawls and Robert Nozick, along with other academic liberal philosophers. This discussion is particularly important at present, for the forces of globalism are presently changing the role of governments.