Introduction. -- Classical Greek political philosophy: beginnings. -- Plato: government for corrupted intellects. -- Aristotle: politics as the master art. -- Cicero: The cosmic significance of politics. -- Christianity: a political religion?. -- Augustine, Aquinas, and Marsilius of Padua: politics for saints, sinners, and heretics. -- Hobbes and Locke: seventeenth-century contractarianism. -- Rousseau and Marx: reaction to Bourgeois-liberalism . -- Mill and Rawls: liberalism ascendant?