A history of political theory/
George Holland Sabine and Thomas Landon Thorson
- 4th ed.
- New Delhi: Oxford, IBH Publishing, 1973.
- 871 p. ; 25 cm.
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 Roman lawyers -- Seneca and the fathers of the church -- The folk and its law -- The investiture controversy -- Universitas Hominum -- Philip and 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 the 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 materialism -- Communism -- Fascism and national socialism.