Title: Classics in political science.
Authors: Rouček, Joseph Slabey, 1902-
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Year: 1963
Subjects: Political science
Abstract: A survey of both the great and the infamous political ideas of history as reflected in the writings of the world's foremost political thinkers. The editor has presented selections, each representing the core of the particular individual's theories, so that the reader will have at his fingertips the central political philosophies of history's most influential architects of governmental theory.--From publisher description.
Contents: Thoughts on government / John Adams -- Emancipation ukase / Czar Alexander II -- On kingship / St. Thomas Aquinas -- The state / Aristotle -- The city of God / St. Augustine -- Of the limits which separate morals from legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- On conciliation with America / Edmund Burke -- The "Iron Curtain" speech / Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill -- On justice / Marcus Tullius Cicero -- The laws of heaven and the earthly order / Confucius -- Croce on Machiavelli / Benedetto Croce -- The Puritan Commonwealth / Oliver Cromwell -- The first philippic / Demosthenes -- To Viscount Palmerston / Benjamin Disraeli -- The origin of the state / Friedrich Engels -- Ahiṃsā or the way of non-violence / Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -- The rational basis of international law / Hugo Grotius -- The constitutionality of the bank / Alexander Hamilton -- The nature of freedom / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- The racial state / Adolf Hitler --^