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abolition movement 1–2,
88 See alsoslavery
abortion 2,16–17
absolutism 2–3
Filmer’s royal 107–108
Hobbes and 2,
141–142
Islamic political
thought and 159
rule of law as check on
266
absurdity, Camus’s notion of
47
The Acquisitive Society
(Tawney) 292
activism 3
activism, judicial 3–4
Acton, John Emerich Dal-
bery (Lord) 4, 239
Adams, John 4–6,5, 241
Adorno, Theodor 75, 111,
204
advance directives 98
aesthetics 75, 271–272
African Americans 6
The Age of Reason(Paine)
226
Agrarian Justice(Paine)
226
The Agrarian Problem in the
16th Century(Tawney)
291
agriculture
Owen’s communes
224
physiocracy and 231,
250
population and 197
populism and 237

Albertus Magnus, St. 6

Algeria 47

Alien and Sedition Acts 5,

241

alienation 6–7

existentialism and 7,

99–100

industrialization and 7,

157

reification and 256

Spinoza on 283

Althusser, Louis 7–8

American Anti-Slavery Soci-

ety 1

American Civil Liberties

Union (ACLU) 180

American Civil War 9–10,

15, 285

American political thought

8–11

Civil War 9–10

Declaration of Indepen-

dence 7, 80, 298

egalitarianism 92, 96

ethics, sources of 97

Federalists vs.Antifed-

eralists 9, 15,

104–105

liberal/conservative

issues 10

Manifest Destiny 198

multiculturalism and

213–214

origins and ideals of

8–9

orthodox vs.progres-

sive ideology 10, 77,

151–152

sovereignty and 282

American Revolution

Burke on 42

Declaration of Indepen-

dence 7, 80, 298

Franklin and 112

Henry and 136

ideologies of 9

liberty, conceptions of

188

Locke and 190

Paine and 226

Pocock’s explanation of

234

Quebec Act of 1774 and

249

anarchism 11–12

1886 handbill 11

Bakunin’s version 28

Godwin and 124

Goldman’s sovereignty

of the individual

124

Kropotkin’s anarchist

communism 175

legitimate government

181

Nozick’s minimalist

state 222

Proudhon’s mutualism

11–12, 245–246

Anarchy, State and Utopia

(Nozick) 10, 187, 222

ancient constitution 12–13,

34, 184

An Essay on the Principle of

Population as It Affects the

Future Improvement of

Society(Malthus) 197

animal rights 13, 100

An Inquiry Concerning Polit-

ical Justice(Godwin) 124

An Inquiry into the Time and

Place of Homer in History

(Gladstone) 123

Another Philosophy of His-

tory and Humanity

(Herder) 137

anthropology 14

anticlericalism 14–15

Antifederalists 9, 15,136,

285

The Apology(Plato) 281

Aquinas, St. Thomas 6,

15–17

civil disobedience 61

class analysis 63

discrimination 87

divine vs.natural law

16–17, 179, 216–217,

281

ethics 97

justice 166

property ownership 17,

66, 244

representation 257

Thomism 35, 217, 293

Arendt, Hannah 17–18,18,

145, 296

Areopagitica(Milton) 240

aristocracy 18–19

elitism of 92

natural 5, 19

Plato’s philosopher-

kings 18, 230

Supreme Court as 288

Aristotle 19–21,64, 126

aristocracy 18, 209

authority 24

autonomy 25

citizenship 20, 58, 163

class analysis 63

327

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