My purpose here is to encourage and to contribute to a revival of political philosophy. I am not alone in working to that end. Our numbers are, no doubt, small, but they have been increasing for some time, although it must be admitted that there is as yet little enthusiasm for the task. What surprises me is that most of those who ought to be best-equipped to undertake it because of their intellectual temperament, which inclines them to break with dogmatic beliefs, because of their philosophical culture, because of their desire to find some meaning behind the events,