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

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