Periods
Aristotle
Classification of governments, man as political animal
Ancient Greece, when philosophy was growingAugustine of Hippo
City of God divine origin of power
Fall of the Roman Empire, Christian theology risesThomas Aquinas
Hierarchy of authority, harmony of reason and faith
Medieval Europe and scholastic learningNiccolo Machiavelli
Political realism, The Prince, ends justify means
Italy was divided into many statesThomas Hobbes
Social contract, Leviathan, strong sovereign
English Civil War, rise of state theoryKarl Marx
Class struggle, historical materialism, communism
Industrial Revolution, capitalism, socialismGabriel Almond & Sidney Verba 1963
Political culture: parochial, subject, participant
Cold War era, empirical political scienceHannah Arendt
Totalitarianism "banality of evil" civic responsibility
WWII, Holocaust, postwar political philosophyJohn Rawls
Theory of justice, veil of ignorance
U.S. liberal philosophy 20th-century political ethics
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