Political Liberty A History of the Conception in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

Introduction. Part I: Individual and Political Liberty in the Middle Ages. 1. Individuality, Equality, and Personal Liberty. 2. The Conception of Political Liberty in the Middle Ages. Part II: The Conception of Political Liberty in the Seventeenth Century. 1. The Development of the Theory of Absolutism in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 2. The Political Theory of Hooker and Althusius. 3. The Continuity of the Conception of Political Liberty in the Seventeenth Century: France. 4. The Continuity of the Conception of Political Liberty in the Seventeenth Century: Spain. 5. The Continuity of the Conception of Political Liberty in the Seventeenth Century: Holland. 6. The Continuity of the Conception of Political Liberty in the Seventeenth Century: Germany. 7. The Continuity of the Conception of Political Liberty in the Seventeenth Century: England. Part III: The Development of the Conception of Political Liberty in the Eighteenth Century. 1. The Constitutional Conception of Political Liberty as embodied in the Representative System. 2. The Influence of England in the Development of the Conception of Political Liberty in the Eighteenth Century: Voltaire and Montesquieu. 3. The American Revolution. 4. Burke. 5. The French Revolution and Condorcet. 6. Thomas Paine. 7. Rousseau. 8. Who are Members of the Political Community? 9. The Relations of Economic and Political Freedom.