The first part of the third volume of the History of Political Thought provides a philosophical-historical interpretation of political thought from humanism and the Renaissance to the currents in the French Enlightenment (Machiavelli, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bodin, Suárez, Grotius, Hobbes, Harrington, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau). Much attention is given to the emergence of the theory of the nation-state, the Bohemian Reformation, the right of resistance, religious toleration, natural and international law, and the theory of the separation of political powers. An interpretation of the development of political thought in the Czech lands forms an integral part of the present work. This interpretation begins with an analysis of the political views of two important representatives of the Czech Reformation, Jan Jesensky and Jan Amos Comenius, and continues with a description of Pan-Slavism and a comprehensive account of the development of political thought in the Czech lands in the 19th century.
Czech edition