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organismic theory of the state, 117-118,

158, 189-190

Owen, Robert, 213-218

on education, 214-215

parallel word construction, 35-36
Pareto, Vilfredo, 188
Paris Peace Conference of 1919, 227
Parkinson, C. Northcote, 237-239
Parkinson’s Law, 237
second law, 238-239
writings, 237
Parkinson’s Law, 237
pecuniary emulation, 220-221
pecuniary man, 220
pessimism, 95, 106
phenomenological philosophy, 103
phenomenon, Kant’s concept of, 95,
105
Philosopherof Absolute Monarchy, 162
Physiocrats, 202
Plato, 55-60, 61, 63,95, 138-141, 147,
214, 248,253
Academy, 56
Allegory of the Cave, 140
knowledge, 59-60, 139
nature of ideas, 56-57
Platonic love, 140
political philosophy, 56, 138-141
the Republic, 56, 138, 141, 142
writings, 56, 140, 147
Platonist, 61, 146
pluralism, 130-131, 142
political law, 120, 124
political theory, 111-191
polity, 143-144
popular sovereignty, 114
post hoc, ergo propter hoc, see false
cause
positive checks, 211,213

power

and sovereignty, 114

practical reason, postulates of, 93

pragmatic theory of truth, 22

pragmatism, 53

praxeology, 241-242

predatory man, 219-220, 222, 223

prerogative power of the ruler, 168

preventive checks, 211,213

The Prince, 156, 160

procedural laws, 120

production related to distribution, 224-

225

professional monopolies, 235

Progress and Poverty, 224

progressive income tax, 236

proletariat, dictatorship of the, 185,244

prudence, 67-68

psychological hedonism, 85

public monopolies, 206

“pump priming,” 230-231

qualitative hedonist, 88

“quantitative hedonism,” 87

Quesnay, 202

radical, 13, 14

reactionary, 12, 13, 14

realist, 21

realism, 61

reason, 62, 63, 77-78

Aquinas’ types of, 76

Aristotle’s, 77

vs. faith, 3

relativist, 20

religion, as source of law, 122

renunciation of the Will to Live, 97-98

representative government, 176-177

resemblance (association), 83

resignation, 69