TY - BOOK AU - Sabine,George Holland TI - A history of political theory SN - 9780245564857 U1 - 320.01 SAB PY - 1963///, CY - London PB - Harrap N1 - Part I: The theory of the city-state: The city-state -- Political thought before Plato -- Plato, the Republic -- Plato, the statesman and the laws -- Aristotle, political ideas -- The twilight of the city-state Part II: The theory of the universal community: 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 the fair and Bonface VIII -- Marsilio of Padua and William of Occam -- The Conciliar theory of Church Government The theory of the national state: 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 materialism -- Communism -- Fascism and national socialism ER -