A history of political theory/
George H. Sabine
- 4th ed.
- New Delhi: IBH Publishing, 1973.
- 871 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
The contenxt of political theory. -- 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-state. -- The law of nature. -- Cicero and the Romance lawyers. -- Seneca and the fathers of the church. -- The folk and its law. -- The investiture controversy. -- Universitas Hominum. -- Philip the fair and boinface 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 modernized 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 mateerialism. -- Communism. -- Fascism and national socialism.