Engaging Political Philosophy
From Hobbes to Rawls
1. Auflage September 2001
288 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Engaging Political Philosophy investigates the political philosophies of Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Mill, Rawls, and Marx and reveals the scope and limits of the philosophical tradition they helped to forge.
* Investigates the political philosophies of Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Mill, Rawls, and Marx.
* Reveals the scope and limits of the philosophical tradition they helped to forge.
* Provides a cohesive narrative about modern political philosophy.
* Serves as both an accessible introduction and an interesting, original interpretation of ideas that have influenced our society.
What is Political Philosophy?.
Great Transformations.
Continuities.
Appendix.
Notes.
Part I: Hobbes.
The State of Nature.
The Problem.
Rational Agency.
A Prisoners' Dilemma.
A Monitoring Problem.
The Social Contract.
Hobbesian Justice.
The Sovereign.
Hobbes and Liberalism.
Hobbes's Conservatism.
Hobbesian Statism.
Notes.
Part II: Rousseau.
Rousseau's Contractarianism.
A Digression.
The Social Contract.
Sovereignty.
Rousseau and Liberalism.
Political Obligation.
Discovering the General Will.
Into Politics.
Notes.
Part III: Locke.
Rights.
The State.
Property.
The State and Society.
The Minimal State.
Political Legitimacy.
Representative Government.
Notes.
Part IV: Mill.
Mill's Reformism.
What Utilitarianism Is.
Problems for Utilitarians.
"The Permanent Interests of Man as a Progressive Being".
The Principle of Liberty.
Freedom of Speech.
Experiments in Living.
In Defense of Liberty.
Appendix: Repressive Tolerance.
Notes.
Part V: Rawls.
The Problem of Justice.
Justification.
Rawls's Principles.
The Original Position.
The Case for the Principles.
Political Liberalism.
Notes.
Part VI: Marx.
The Young Marx.
Philosophy of History.
The Criticism of Religion.
The Critical Program.
Alienated Labor.
Marx in Transition.
The State.
History.
Marx's Politics.
Appendix: The Primacy Thesis.
Notes.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Index.
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