A History of the Political Philosophers

Originally published in 1939, this book was intended as a guide to political theory intelligible to the common reader, with quotations from the original sources sufficiently extensive to highlight these writings. This history of theory has been placed against brief descriptions, as background, of the civilization of the times.

George E. G. Catlin

Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. Part 1. 1. Introductory 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. The Hellenistic Age and the Coming of Rome 5. The Roman Law and the Christian Fathers 6. The Middle Ages 7. Renaissance and Reformation 8. Thomas Hobbes Part 2. 9. Locke and the Social Contract 10. The American and French Revolutions: Montesquieu, Jefferson, Burke and Paine 11. The Early Utilitarians: Jeremy Bentham 12. The Later Utilitarians: James and John Stuart Mill 13. Individualists and Anarchists Part 3. 14. Jean Jacques Rousseau 15. Georg Hegel 16. The Post-Hegelian Conservatives: Carlyle to Bosanquet 17. The Post-Hegelian Conservatives: Treitschke 18. Marx and His Predecessors 19. Kautsky, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin 20. Laski and Strachey 21. Internationalism and Fascism: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler Part 4. 22. Conclusion and Prospect. Index.