Michael Rosen / Jonathan Wolff (eds.)

Political Thought

Herausgeber: Wolff, Jonathan; Rosen, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

Contains 140 helpful readings covering the debates in the Western political tradition and presents samples of the political ideologies. Issues discussed in this title include: the role of human nature in determining social arrangements; the political significance of gender differences; the justification for the powers of the state; and more.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Readers
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9780192892782
• ISBN-10: 0192892789
• Artikelnr.: 22311541

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Wolff is Reader in Philosophy at University College London, and author of An Introduction to Political Philosophy (OUP, 1996) and Robert Nozick (Blackwell, 1991). Michael Rosen is a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, co-editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, and author of Hegel's Dialectic and its Criticism (CUP, 1982) and The Need for Interpretation (Abalone, 1987).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Human Nature
* Introduction
* 1a: The Natural State of Mankind
* 1. Aristotle: The State Exists By Nature
* 2. Thomas Hobbes: The Misery of the Natural Condition of Mankind
* 3. John Locke: The State of Nature and the State of War
* 4. Baron de Montesquieu: Fear and Peace
* 5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Noble Savage
* 6. Robert Owen: Man's Character is Formed For Him
* 7. Karl Marx and FriedrichEngels: Man as a Productive Being
* 8. Charles Darwin: Natural Selection
* 9. Charles Darwin: The Advantage of Morality
* 10. Peter Kropotkin: Mutual Aid
* 1b: Man's Nature and Woman's Nature
* 11. Plato: Women as Weaker Partners
* 12. Aristotle: Separate Spheres
* 13. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Likeness and Unlikeness of the Sexes
* 14. Mary Wollstonecraft: The Rights of Women
* 15. John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women
* 16. Carol Gilligan: In a Different Voice
* 17. Alison M Jaggar: Socialist Feminism and The Standpoint of Women
* Chapter 2: The Justification of the State
* 2a What is the State?
* 18. John Locke: Political Power
* 19. Max Weber: The State and Coercion
* 2b The Social Contract
* 20. Thomas Hobbes: Creating Leviathan
* 21. John Locke: Express and Tacit Consent
* 22. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Natural Freedom and the Freedom of the
Citizen
* 23. Immanuel Kant: The Hypothetical Contract
* 2cAgainst The Social Contract
* 24. David Hume: The Irrelevance of Consent
* 25. Jeremy Bentham: Utility as the True Foundation
* 26. G.W.F Hegel: The Priority of the State over The Individual
* 27. H.L.A. Hart: The Principle of Fairness
* 2d: The Anarchist Response
* 28. Michael Bakunin: Science and the People
* 29. Robert Paul Wolff: The Conflict of Autonomy and Authority
* 2e: Civil Disobedience
* 30. Plato: The Duty of Obedience
* 31. Henry David Thoreau: The Duty of Disobedience
* 32. Martin Luther King: An Unjust Law is No Law
* 33. John Rawls: Civil Disobedience
* Chapter 3: Democracy and Its Difficulties
* 3a: Against Democracy
* 34. Plato: Ruling as a Skill
* 35. Frederick the Great: The Enlightened Despot
* 3b: Democratic Ideals
* 36. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The General Will
* 37. Immanuel Kant: Freedom and Equality
* 38. John Stuart Mill: The Democratic Citizen
* 39. John Rawls: Majority Rule
* 3c True and False Democracy
* 40. V.I. Lenin: Bourgeois and Proletarian Democracy
* 41. Carole Pateman: Participatory Democracy
* 3d Dangers in Democracy
* 42. Aristotle: Rule of the People and Rule of Law
* 43. James Madison: The Danger of Faction
* 44. Alexis de Tocqueville: Tyranny of the Majority
* 3e Democracy and Bureaucracy
* 45. Max Weber: Bureaucratic Administration
* 46. Vilfedo Pareto: Rule By Oligarchy
* 3f: Separation of Powers
* 47. John Locke: Legislative, Executive, and Federative Powers
* 48. Baron de Montesquieu: The Ideal Constitution
* Chapter 4: Liberty and Rights
* 4a: What is Liberty?
* 49. Benjamin Constant: The Liberty of the Ancients and the Liberty of
the Moderns
* 50. Isaiah Berlin: Two Concepts of Liberty
* 51. Charles Taylor: In Defence of Positive Freedom
* 52. Ronald Dworkin: No Right to Liberty
* 4b: Law and Morality
* 53. John Stuart Mill: One Simple Principle
* 54. James Fitzjames Stephen: The Consequences of Liberty
* 55. Partick Devlin: The Enforcement of Morals
* 56. H.L.A. Hart: The Changing Sense of Morality.
* 4c: Toleration and Free Expression
* 57. John Locke: The Futility of Intolerance
* 58. Thomas Scanlon: Free Expression and the Authority of the State
* 59. Jeremy Waldron: The Satanic Verses
* 60. Catherine MacKinnon: Only Words
* 4d: Virtue and Citizenship
* 61. Pericles: The Democratic Citizen
* 62. Aristotle: The Requirements of Citizenship
* 63. Niccolo Machiavelli: The Servility of the Moderns
* 64. Alexis de Tocqueville: The Nature of Modern Servitude
* 65. Quentin Skinner: The Republican Ideal of Political Liberty
* 4e: Rights
* 66. Jeremy Bentham: Nonsense on Stilts
* 67. Karl Marx: The Rights of Egoistic Man
* 68. Robert Nozick: Rights as Side-Constraints
* 69. Ronald Dworkin: Taking Rights Seriously
* 4f: Punishment
* 70. John Stuart Mill: In Favour of Capital Punishment
* 71. H.L.A. Hart: Punishment and Responsibility
* 72. Robert Nozick: Where Deterrence Theory Goes Wrong
* Chapter 5: Economic Justice
* 5a: Private Property
* 73. John Locke: Labour as the Basis of Property
* 74. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Earth Belongs to Nobody
* 75. G.W.F Hegel: Property as Expression
* 76. Herbert Spencer: The Right to the Use of the Earth
* 77. Karl Marx: Money, the Universal Whore
* 78. Karl Marx: The True Foundation of Private Property
* 79. Sigmund Freud: Property and Aggression
* 80. R.H. Tawney: Reaping Without Sowing
* 81. Robert Nozick: Difficulties With Mixing Labour
* 5b: The Market
* 82. Adam Smith: The Dangers of Government Interference
* 83. Karl Marx: Appearance and Reality
* 84. F.A. Hayek: Prices as A Code
* 85. Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman: The Tyranny of Controls
* 86. G.A. Cohen: Poverty as Lack of Freedom
* 5c: Theories of Distributive Justice
* 87. Aesop: The Grasshopper and the Ants
* 88. Aristotle: Reciprocity
* 89. Aristotle: Equality and Inequality
* 90. Gerald Winstanley: The Common Stock
* 91. David Hume: The Impossibility of Equality
* 92. Karl Marx: From Each According to His Abilities, To Each
According to His Needs
* 93. Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward
* 94. F.A. Hayek: The Impossibility of Planning
* 95. John Rawls: Two Principles of Justice
* 96. Robert Nozick: The Entitlement Theory
* 97. Ronald Dworkin: Equality of Resources
* Chapter 6: Justice Between Groups
* 6a: Peace and War
* 98. Immanuel Kant: Perpetual Peace
* 99. Richard Cobden: The Civilizing Influence of Commerce
* 100. Michael Walzer: Just and Unjust War
* 101. Thomas Nagel: The Limits of Warfare
* 6b: Nationalism
* 102. Isaiah Berlin: National Sentiment
* 103. Alasdair MacIntyre: Is Patriotism a Virtue?
* 6c: Minority Rights
* 104. Thomas Hill: The Message of Affirmative Action
* 105. Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz: National Self-Determination'
* 6d: Intergenerational Justice
* 106. Brian Barry: Justice Between Generations'
* 6e: International Justice
* 107. Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence and Morality
* 108. Onora O'Neill: Lifeboat Earth
* Chapter 7: Alternatives to Liberalism
* 7a: Liberal Theory Under Strain
* 109. Jurgen Habermas: Legitimation Crisis
* 110. Michael Walzer: Liberalism in Retreat
* 111. Michael Walzer: The Artificiality of Liberalism
* 7b: Conservatism
* 112. Edmund Burke: Eternal Society
* 113. T.S. Eliot: The Transmission of Culture
* 114. Michael Oakeshott: On Being Conservative
* 7c: Communitarianism
* 115. Charles Taylor: Identificiation and Subjectivity
* 116. Alasdair MacIntyre: Tradition and the Unity of a Life
* 117. Michael Sandel: Conceptions of Community
* 7d: Socialism
* 118. Karl Marx: Work in Communist Society
* 119. Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto
* 120. Karl Marx: The Realm of Freedom
* 121. Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man Under Socialism
* 122. Ernest Mandel: Productive Activity
* 123. G.A. Cohen: Socialism and Equality of Opportunity
* 7e: Post-Modernism
* 124. Friedrich Nietzsche:The Impulse Towards Justice
* 125. Michel Foucault: Power/Knowledge
* 126. Richard Rorty: The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy
* Chapter 8: Progess and Civilization
* 127. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Efffect of the Arts and Sciences
* 128. Adam Smith: Division of Labour
* 129. Friedrich Schiller: Fragmentation and Aesthetic Education
* 130. Karl Marx: Development of the Productive Forces
* 131. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Our Self-Destructive Impulse
* 132. Friedrich Engels: Transition to Communism
* 133. Max Weber: Disenchantment
* 134. Karl Popper: The Utopian Method
* 135. Francis Fukuyama: The End of History
* Appendix: Fundamental Political Documents
* 136. U.S. Declaration of Independence 1776
* 137. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 1789
* 138. The Bill of Rights 1789
* 139. The Gettysburg Address 1863
* 140. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948