Political philosophy : a historical introduction /
| Основен автор: | White, Michael J., 1948- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2012.
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| Издание: | 2nd ed. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis Book jacket |
Съдържание:
- Introduction
- Politics and human nature ; The idea of human nature or the human good as 'function' : normative anthropology ; My 'story' of political philosophy, and my cast of characters ; Enduring issues in political philosophy
- Classical Greek political philosophy : beginnings
- Nature or nurture? ; Protagoras's democratic traditionalism ; The functionalistic foundation of the political aretai in nature (physis) ; Glaucon's contractarian political theory
- Plato : government for corrupted intellects
- Socrates' polis of pigs ; The 'republic' of Plato's Republic ; The human ergon and the purpose of political organization ; Furthering rationality by means of the polis? ; Why should anyone return to the cave? ; Plato and 'the rule of law'
- Aristotle : politics as the master art
- The human good : intellectual and political ; Acting correctly (eupraxia) as a grand end? ; The polis as a complete community ; The role of politics : the master art? ; Concluding thoughts
- Cicero : the cosmic significance of politics
- Cicero as champion of the res publica ; What is right (ius) : the rule of law (lex) and normative anthropology ; Virtues, duties, and laws
- Christianity : a political religion?
- The New Testament and beyond ; Pauline cosmopolitanism ; The Roman Empire Christianized ; The advent of Tempora Christiana (the Christian era)
- Augustine, Aquinas and Marsilius of Padua : politics for saints, sinners, and heretics
- St. Augustine ; The two rationales of Augustine's City of God ; The two cities ; Theoretical political consequences ; Christians as good citizens of secular states? ; St. Thomas Aquinas ; The human function : nature and praeternature ; The 'parts' of the eternal law : divine, natural, and human law ; Political forms, procedures, and other particulars ; Aquinas' political philosophy : some concluding observations ; Marsilius of Padua ; The autonomous but coercive regnum (political community) and its law ; The political wisdom and authority of the whole body of citizens
- Hobbes and Locke : seventeenth-century contractarianism
- Thomas Hobbes : natural law simplified and modernized ; Natural law, natural rights, and the human function ; Law, contracts, and the 'Leviathan' ; The civil state : sovereigns and subjects ; Concluding thoughts on God and sovereigns ; John Locke : divinely mandated autonomy, natural rights, and property ; Moral knowledge and human motivation ; The state of nature and the social contract ; Property and liberal political theory : Lockean origins
- Rousseau and Marx : reaction to bourgeois-liberalism
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau : autonomous citizens for the true republic ; The intertwined development of civilization, corruption, and morality ; The social contract and the Émile : republics and republican citizens ; Politics and the human function ; Karl Marx : distortion of the human function within the bourgeois-liberal state ; Political emancipation and the bourgeois-liberal state ; Alienation and the human function ; Historical materialism and the coming of communism ; Concluding thoughts : the cookshops of the future made present
- Mill and Rawls : liberalism ascendant?
- John Stuart Mill : perfectionist liberalism ; Mill's liberalism ; Liberty and government ; Democratic republicanism ; Concluding thought on Mill and liberalism ; John Rawls : political (and non-perfectionist?) liberalism ; Egalitarian justice as the "first virtue of social institutions" : basic assumptions ; Rawls' two principles of justice : what they apply to and why ; Consensus, public reason, and the distinction between citoyen and bourgeois ; The ultimate justification of Rawlsian liberalism? ; Epilogue.