Two types of criticism are frequently levelled at the history of ideas in general and the history
of political theory in particular. The first is very much that of historians practising in other …

What are the correct procedures to adopt in the attempt to arrive at an understanding of a
past work of philosophy or political thought? In the last decade or so traditional approaches …

THE HISTORY OF IDEAS 5" classic texts." 7 For if the whole point of such a study is
conceived in terms of recovering the" timeless questions and answers" posed in the" great …

Those who are at present interested in the methodological problems of the historian of
philosophy cannot fail to take note of the existence of what has come to be called" the history …

Models of the History of Philosophy. From its Origins in the Renaissance to theHistoria
philosophica'(a translation of a work published in 1981 in Italian-the bibliography has been …

" The History of Philosophy is the exposition of philosophical opinions and of systems and
schools of philosophy. It includes the study of the lives of philosophers, the inquiry into the …

ALMOST twenty years ago the Author published a volume in which he endeavoured to
describe and criticise the principal attempts which had been made in France and Germany …

Political philosophy is not a historical discipline. The philosophic questions of the nature of
political things and of the best, or just, political order are fundamentally different from …

The present book is a series of discussions of certain central topics, or clusters of topics, in
the philosophy of history. It does not, inevitably, cover the whole subject. I have concentrated …

Whatever other definitions of man be true or false, it is generally admitted that he is
distinguished among the creatures by the habit of entertaining general ideas. Like Br'er …