SOURCE: Hallowell, John H. “Three on Politics.” America 109, no. 10 (7 September 1963): 241-42.

In the following review, Hallowell deems History of Political Philosophy an “excellent and welcome text.”

Although this book [History of Political Philosophy] is intended primarily to introduce undergraduates to the study of political philosophy, it should be of interest to the general reader who is looking for a similar introduction or who wants to review the history of political philosophy.

It is intended as a guide to the texts, not as a substitute for them. As a work of collaboration it displays both the virtues and the weaknesses of any joint intellectual endeavor. Yet the collaborators share essentially the same presuppositions about the nature of political philosophy and approach the analysis of the thought of particular authors with similar questions.

Political philosophy arises from speculation, first undertaken by the Greeks, about the distinction between nature and convention...