An Introduction to the history of the science of politics / by Sir Frederick Pollock.

London : Macmillan, 1890.

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Political science -- History.

I. The beginnings of political science

The place of politics among the sciences

Division of sciences

Speculative and practical departments of moral science

Field of political science

Ideal of political life in ancient Athens

Rudiments of political theory in our reports of Socrates

Plato’s developments

His republic ideal, not practical

New departure of Aristotle; his practical method

Aristotle’s "politics”

Aristotle’s "natural citizenship" and Rousseau’s "social contract"

Economical teaching of Aristotle

His criticisms of Plato’s communism

The citizen and the city defined

Good and bad constitutions

Aristotle’s views of citizenship applied to the modern state

Decay of political science in Greece after the roman conquest

Cicero’s philosophical works

II. The middle ages and the renaissance

Struggle between the Emperor Frederick II. and the papacy

St. Thomas Aquinas "de Regimine Principum," and Dante "de Monarchia"

Dante’s ideal monarch

Writers on politics before Machiavelli

Political principles of Machiavelli

His scheme for the restoration of Italian unity

Bodin’s treatise "of Commonwealth"

His conception of sovereignty

Moral and general limitations of sovereign power

Fortescue on the English monarchy, and More's "utopia"

Sir Thomas Smith on the omnipotence of parliament

Hobbes’s "Leviathan"

Origin of civil, society in contract

Relations of the sovereign and the subject

Definition of right and wrong

Subsequent treatment of Hobbes’s doctrines

III. The eighteenth century and the social contract

Locke on civil government

The state of nature and the state of war

Political society

Authority of the legislative power

Legality of a change of government

Prerogative of the crown

Rousseau and the Contrat Social

The sovereign people

Declaration of the rights of man

Blackstone on Locke’s principles

Montesquieu’s esprit des Lois

His excellencies and faults

Burke

Experience versus dogmatism

Will of the majority

Principles of 1789

Expediency and legality

IV. Modern theories of sovereignty and legislation

Classification of theoretical and applied politics

Bentham: his "fragment on government"

Definition of political society

Sovereignty and obedience

The rule of utility

Austin

Practical seat of political supremacy

The crown and the estates of the realm

Conventions of constitutional practice

Continental philosophy of politics

Ethical and historical schools

Naturrecht in English school

Gradual separation of ethics, politics, and law in English school

Contrast of English and Continental points of view

Continental Method favoured in America

Modern historical method

Limits of state interference

Humboldt, Mill, Laboulaye

Mr. Spencer, Mr. Huxley

Centralised and local regulation

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Index (mainly of proper names)

x, 128 pages ; 19 cm