David Braybrooke

Analytical Political Philosophy

From Discourse, Edification

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Analytical Political Philosophy: From Discourse, Edification, distinguished Canadian philosopher David Braybrooke explores this movement by bringing together some of his earlier free-standing studies of the concepts of needs, rights, and rules.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780802038678
• ISBN-10: 0802038670
• Artikelnr.: 20807369

Autorenporträt

David Braybrooke was a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University and holds the Centennial Commission Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
Part One: Free-Standing Studies of Political Terms
Section A: Needs
1. The Concept of Needs, with a Heart-Warming Offer of Aid to
Utilitarianism
2. Where Does the Moral Force of Needs Reside, and When?
Section B: Rights
1. The Analysis of Rights
2. Our Natural Bodies, Our Social Rights
Section C: Rules
3. The Representation of Rules in Logic and Their Definition
Part Two: Aggregating the Free-Standing Studies
4. (The Keystone Chapter) Aggregating in a Distinctive Grand Program the
Free-Standing Studies and an Account of the Serial Evaluation of
Consequences
Part Three: Analytical Political Philosophy Deals with Evil
5. Through the Free-Standing Studies and Their Aggregation in a Grand Program,
Analytical Political Philosophy Can Deal with Evil
Part Four: Three Famous Grand Programs in Analytical  Political Philosophy,
with Comparisons
6. Utilitarianism with a Difference: Rawls’s Position in Ethics
7. Sidgwick’s Critique of Nozick
8.  Social Contract Theory’s Fanciest Flight (with Gauthier)
9. Comparisons of the Other Grand Programs, Especially Rawls’s, with the
Needs-Focused Combination Program
Part Five: An Epilogue to the Book and to the Four-Book Series That It
Brings to an End: Two Older Grand Programs
10. The Relation of Utilitarianism to Natural Law Theory
notes
index