ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1988, this book explores the history of political liberty. There is an opinion that the conception of Political Liberty, however important it may have been in Athens and Republican Rome, disappeared in the period of the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages, and has only been recovered in the last two centuries. This work is primarily an attempt to set out the continuity of the development of the conception of Political Liberty during the Middle Ages and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the development, but even more, the continuity of development, for this has been inadequately appreciated in the past.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|1 pages
Individual and Political Liberty in the Middle Ages
chapter 1|11 pages
Individuality, Equality, and Personal Liberty
chapter 2|11 pages
The Conception of Political Liberty in the Middle Ages
part 2|1 pages
The Conception of Political Liberty in The Seventeenth Century
chapter 2|7 pages
The Political Theory of Hooker and Althusius
part 3|1 pages
The Development of the Conception of Political Liberty in the Eighteenth Century
chapter 3|4 pages
The American Revolution
chapter 4|8 pages
Burke
chapter 5|5 pages
The French Revolution and Condorcet
chapter 6|7 pages
Thomas Paine
chapter 7|6 pages
Rousseau
chapter 8|9 pages
Who are Members of the Political Community?
chapter 9|6 pages
The Relations of Economic and Political Freedom
part 4|1 pages
Part 4