The contextual approach -- The Straussian approach -- Postmodern approaches to the history of political thought -- The value of the history of political philosophy -- History of political philosophy as a discipline -- The origins of political philosophy -- Classical political philosophy : Plato and Aristotle -- Hellenistic political theory -- Early Christian political philosophy -- The influence of Roman law -- Arabic contributions to medieval political theory -- Medieval political theory c.1000-1500 -- Renaissance political philosophy -- Political thought in the age of the Reformation -- The school of Salamanca -- The early modern foundations of classic liberalism -- Absolutism -- Enlightenment political philosophy -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- Early nineteenth-century liberalism -- German idealism -- Early European socialism -- The Marxian tradition -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century liberalism -- Political philosophy and the idea of a social science -- Contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy -- Contemporary continental political thought -- Political philosophy in a globalizing world -- Democracy -- Rights -- The state -- Sovereignty -- The social contract (contract of government) -- Citizenship -- Property -- Equality -- Freedom -- Domination and slavery -- Imperialism -- The idea of the welfare state -- Libertarianism -- Religious toleration -- Republicanism -- Political obligation -- Anarchism -- Feminism -- Animal rights and political theory -- Confucian political philosophy -- The Muslim tradition of political philosophy -- Hindu political philosophy.