democracy 80
despotism 83
equality and discrimi-
nation 87, 96
ethics (Golden Mean)
20, 97, 279
freedom 114
hierarchy 137
humanism 149
human nature 19, 148
mixed form of govern-
ment 54, 209–210
paternalism 228
patriarchalism 228
polis 19–20, 24, 83,
234
property ownership
244
revolutionary change
20, 259
rule of law 265
slavery 276
teleology (natural law)
19, 149, 216, 292
tyranny 20, 298
virtue 302
art
Croce’s philosophy of
75
Ruskin’s function of
266
Schiller’s nature of
271–272
Articles of Confederation
15, 104
Atatürk, Kemal 21–22, 160
atheisim 143, 149, 313
Augustine, St. 22–24
citizenship 23, 59
civil disobedience
60–61
ethics 97
historical progression
242
just-war doctrine 165
realism 255
Austria, corporatism in 73
authority 24–25See also
sovereignty
anarchist view 11–12,
124
Augustinian hierarchy
of23–24
Bakunin decentraliza-
tion of 28
Beccaria, social contract
as origin of 30–31
dictatorships and 85
Foucault on 110
Frankfurt School on
111
Harrington, property
ownership and 133
Michels’s oligarchies
207
New Left attack on 219
patriarchal 228
Winthrop’s Puritan
view 248
Autobiography(Franklin)
112
autonomy 25, 150
Awakenings 25–26, 126,
273, 306
Ayer, A. J. 237, 238B
Bacon, Frances 27,237,
300
Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksan-
drovich 28
balance of trade 206
Ballot Act 123
Baptists 28–29
Leland and persecution
in Virginia 181
Moral Majority 212
Rauschenbusch and the
Social Gospel Move-
ment 253
Williams, liberty and
toleration 307
Barber, Benjamin 29–30,
81
Barnett, Samuel 275
Bayle, Pierre 30
beauty 266, 271–272
Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana
30–31
Becket, Thomas 31
behaviorism 31–32,141,
235
Being and Nothing(Sartre)
270
Being and Time(Heidegger)
134
Bellamy, Edward 32, 300
Bennett, William J. 32–33
Bentham, Jeremy 33–34
capital punishment 49kindness to animals 13
utilitarianism 33, 299
Berlin, Isaiah 114
Bernstein, Edward 278
Bill of Rights 149, 218
Bismarck 176
Blackstone, William 12, 34
The Blithesdale Romance
(Hawthorne) 66
Bloch, Ernst 34–35
The Blue Book(John Birch
Society) 164
Bodin, Jean 35–36, 87
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John
36
Bolshevik Party 36–37,
182–183
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 37
The Book of Virtues(Ben-
nett) 33
Bracton, Henry de 37–38
brotherhood Seefraternity
Brown v. Board of Education
3–4
Bryan, William Jennings
74, 236
Buber, Martin 38
Buckley, William F., Jr.
38–39, 39
Bukharin, Nikolai
Ivanovich 39–40
Bunyan, John 40–41
bureaucracy 24, 41,
305–306
Burke, Edmund 41–43
conservatism 41, 71
human nature 42, 148
realism 255
revolution 259–260
byzantine governments 43c
Caesar 45
Caleb Williams(Godwin)
124
Calhoun, John C. 9–10,
45–46, 285
Calvin, John/Calvinism
46–47See alsoPuri-
tanism; Reformation
in American political
thought 8–9
covenant view 73–74
French Huguenots
147imperial church 155
Pilgrims 231
separation of powers 3
work ethic 305
campaign finance reform
123
Camus, Albert 7, 47
Canada 249
Candide(Voltaire) 303
Cannibals All!(Fitzhugh)
109
canon law 48,262, 263, 266
Capital(Engels, Marx) 94
capitalism 49–51
Adam Smith’s defense
of 277
alienation and 7
anarchism and 11
exploitation and 100
freedom and 114
Horkheimer’s critique
of 147
imperialism of 156
industrialism and 158
Keynesian economics
and 171–172
laissez-faire doctrine
and 178
Montesquieu’s commer-
cial virtues 211–212
Ruskin’s criticism of
266
Schumpeter, dynamic
nature of 272
Sumner, Social Darwin-
ism and 287
Tawney’s criticism of
292
welfare state and 306
Capitalism, Socialism and
Democracy(Schumpeter)
272
capital punishment 48–49
Carlyle, Thomas 51
Carnap, Rudolp 237
Carter, James (“Jimmy”)
Earl, Jr. 51–52,52, 82
categorical imperative 169
Catholicism/Catholic
Church 53
abortion position 2,
16–17
anticlericalism 14–15
Aquinas SeeAquinas,
St. Thomas328 Index