CONTENTS:  1. Political Thought Before the Sophists; 2. Political Thought of the Sophists; 3. The Political Ideas of Socrates; 4. Political Philosophy of Plato; 5. Plato : The Republic; 6. The Keystone of Plato's Thinking; 7. "The Construction of the Ideal State" Ideal State and Its "Theory of Justice"; 8. Ideal State and Its "Theory of Education"; 9. Ideal State and Its "Theory of Communism"; 10. "The Union of Political Power and Philosophic Insight"; 11. Plato : His Political Ideas "The Statesman and The Laws"; 12. "The Hellenism and Universalism in Plato"; 13. Political Philosophy of Aristotle; 14. The Politics of Aristotle; 15. Aristotle's Theory of the State; 16. Aristotle's Theory of Justice; 17. Theory of Education; 18. Aristotle's Theory of Communism "His View on Family and Property"; 19. The Ideal or the Best State of Aristotle; 20. Aristotle's Theory of Revolution; 21. Aristotle's Theory of Slavery; 22. Aristotle's Conception of Law and Citizenship; 23. The Hellenism and Universalism in Aristotle; 24. "Post-Aristotelian Thought : A Changing Spirit" The Epicureans and Stoics; 25. The Political Legacy of Rome; 26. Early Christian Thought : St. Augustine; 27. "Medieval Political Thought Church and State Controversy"; 28. John of Salisbury (1120-1180 A.D.); 29. St. Thomas Aquinas (1227-74 A.D.); 30. Supporters of the Imperial Authority; 31. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 A.D.). 32. Marsilio of Padua (1270-1343 A.D.); 33. The Conciliar  Movement; 34. Medieval Contribution to Political Thought; 35. The Death of an Old and Birth of a New Era; 36. Political Thought of the Reformation; 37. Jean Bodin (1530-1596); 38. Hugo Grotius (1583-1645 A.D.) 39. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679);  40. Spinoza (1632-1677); 41. John Locke (1632-1704); 42. David Hume (1711-1776); 43. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778 A.D.); 44. Montesquieu (1689-1755); 45. Edmund Burke (1729-1797); Bibliography.