4. Rise of Nation-States and of modern political philosophy. Rousseau 11
CHAPTER II
SOCIOLOGICAL COMPARED WITH PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY 17-52
1. Problems of Social Physics and of Idealism 17
2. Social Theory as influenced by special sciences 19
(i) Mathematics 19
(ii) Biology 21
(iii) Economics 27
(iv) Jurisprudence and the theory of Right 34
(a) Law as “ideal fact” 34
(b) Sociological analysis of Law 36
(v) Idea of the “spirit of laws” or mind of peoples;
Anthropology in widest sense 39
(vi) Psychology 42
(vii) Connection of points of view and kinds of fact 47
3. Comparison of Psychological Sociology and Social Philosophy 48
CHAPTER III
THE PARADOX OF POLITICAL OBLIGATION; SELF-GOVERNMENT 53-78
1. The conception of self-government 53
2. Law and Liberty in Bentham 56