The story of the political philosophers

PART 1

Introductory

Plato

Aristotle

The Hellenistic Age and the Coming of Rome

The Roman Law and the Christian Fathers

The Middle Ages

Renaissance and Reformation

Thomas Hobbes

PART 2

Locke and the Social Conflict

The American and French Revolutions; Montesquieu, Jefferson, Burke, and Paine

The Early Utilitarians: Jeremy Bentham

The Later Utilitarians: James and John Stuart Mill

Individualists and Anarchists

PART 3

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Georg Hegel

The Post-Hegelian Conservatives: Trietschke

Marx and His Predecessors

Kautsky, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin

Laski and Strachey

Internationalism and Fascism: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler