(A) History of political theory / by George H. Sabine

Includes index

The city-state political thought before plato Plato, the republic Plato, the statesman and the laws Aristotle, political ideals Aristotle, Political actualities The Twilight of the city states the law of nature Cicero and the Roman lawyers Seneca andv the fathers of the church the folk and its law The investiture controversy Universitas hominum Philip the fair and boniface VIII Marsilio of Padua and William of Occam The Conciliar theory of church government Machiavelli The early protestant reformers Royalist and anti-royalist theories Jean Bodin The modernised theory of natural law England: preparation for civil war Thomas Hobbes Radicals and communists The republicans: Harrington, Milton, and Sidney Halifax and Locke France: the decadence of Natural Law The rediscovery of the community: Rousseau Convention and tradition: Hume and Burke Hegel: Dialectic and Nationalism Liberalism: philosophical radicalism Liberalism modernized Marx and dialectical materialism Communism Fascism and National Socialism