| Editor's Introduction | I |
| Part Five. The Great Confusion (continued from Vol.IV) | |
| 2. The Great Confusion II: Decisions and Positions | 17 |
| §1. Survey of Issues | 19 |
| §2. La Boétie | 28 |
| §3. The Monarchomachic Trend | 39 |
| a. Character of the Trend | |
| b. Salamonius | |
| c. The Absorbtion of the Religious Movements | |
| d. Calvin's Theocracy | |
| e. Knox | |
| f. The Vindiciae | |
| g. Althusius | |
| §4. The Jesuit Thinkers | 59 |
| 3. The English Commonwealth--Hooker | 70 |
| §1. The Beginnings of English Political Thought | 70 |
| §2. The Closure of the Commonwealth | 74 |
| §3. The Literary Chorus | 77 |
| §4. Hooker's Christian Commonwealth | 80 |
| §5. Portrait of the Puritan | 88 |
| §6. Philosophy of Law | 98 |
| 4. Interpolity Relations--Vitoria | 108 |
| §1. Internationalism | 108 |
| §2. The Great Design | 111 |
| §3. The Conception of Interstate Law | 113 |
| §4. The Distinction between Interstate and Intercivilizational Relations | 115 |
| §5. The Just War | 117 |
| §6. The Legal Technique of Imperialism | 121 |
| a. The Organization of the Argument | |
| b. The Natural Law of Human Intercourse | |
| c. The Propagation of Christianity | |
| d. Civilizational Superiority | |
| e. Conclusion | |
| §7. Vitoria's Personality | 128 |
| §8. Later Development of Intercivilizational Relations | 131 |
| 5. Man in History and Nature | 134 |
| §1. The Problem of Modernity | 134 |
| §2. Poggio Bracciolini | 138 |
| a. Fame | |
| b. Europe and Asia | |
| §3. Louis Le Roy | 143 |
| a. Pessimism and Optimism | |
| b. Civilizational Epochs | |
| c. The Rhythms of Nature | |
| d. Eternal Recurrence | |
| §4. Astrology | 149 |
| a. Savonarola | |
| b. Melanchthon | |
| c. Rantzau | |
| d. Papal Constitutions | |
| §5. Cosmology | 155 |
| a. Copernicus | |
| b. Bodin | |
| aa. Science and Contemplation | |
| bb. Natural Order and Political Order | |
| cc. Certainty and Catharsis | |
| dd. Cosmic Hierarchy and Political Hierarchy | |
| §6. Tycho de Brahe | 163 |
| a. Renascent Creation | |
| b. Conservative Misgivings | |
| §7. Mathematics | 165 |
| a. Function and Effects of Mathematical Speculation | |
| b. Ontology and Mathematics | |
| §8. Giordano Bruno | 168 |
| a. Intellectual Liberation | |
| b. The Substance of the Cosmos | |
| c. The Ecstasy of Speculation | |
| d. The Infinity of the Cosmos | |
| §9. The Idea of the Infinite and Its Application | 176 |
| a. The Mathematical Infinite | |
| b. The Infinite in Ontological Speculation | |
| 6. Bodin | 180 |
| §1. Mediterranean Modernity | 181 |
| §2. The Style of Work | 184 |
| §3. Bodin's Religion--Biographical Data | 186 |
| §4. The Letter to Jean Bautru | 188 |
| §5. Preciosa Mors | 190 |
| §6. The Program | 192 |
| §7. God, Angels, and Men | 196 |
| §8. Tolerance--The Heptaplomeres | 205 |
| §9. History | 219 |
| a. History and Anthropology | |
| b. Individual and Universal History | |
| c. The Spatial Order of History | |
| d. The Temporal Order of History | |
| [§10. Bodin: Variorum] | 236 |
| a. Bodin—A Representative of Mediterranean Civilization | |
| b. Style of Work | |
| c. Religious Attitude | |
| d. The Heptaplomeres —Toleration | |
| e. Contemplative Realism—The Aristotelian Problem | |
| f. The Theory of Climates—France, the New Omphalos | |
| g. Cosmological Thought | |
| h. Hierarchy—The Feidh | |
| i. Legal Hierarchy—the Structure of the Modern State | |
| j. Corollaries | |
| k. Definitions of Sovereignty | |
| l. The Problem of Power | |
| m. the Harmonious Cosmion | |
| n. Ascent to God | |
| Index | 253 |
