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Political philosophy : a historical introduction / Michael J. White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Michael J., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- x, 431 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 3
- Politics and Human Nature 3
- The Idea of Human Nature or the Human 9
- Good as "Function": Normative Anthropology 5
- My "Story" of Political Philosophy-and My Cast of Characters 9
- Enduring Issues in Political Philosophy 13
- 2 Classical Greek Political Philosophy: Beginnings 21
- Protagoras's Democratic Traditionalism 23
- The Functionalistic Foundation of the Political Aretai in Nature (Physis) 27
- Glaucon's Contractarian Political Theory 31
- 3 Plato: Government for Corrupted Intellects 37
- Socrates' Polis of Pigs 37
- The "Republic" of Plato's Republic 40
- The Human Ergon and the Purpose of Political Organization 43
- Furthering Rationality by Means of the Polis? 46
- Why Should Anyone Return to the Cave? 52
- Plato and "the Rule of Law" 55
- 4 Aristotle: Politics as the Master Art 65
- The Human Good: Intellectual and Political 65
- "Acting Correctly" (Eupraxia) as a Grand End? 72
- The Polis as a Complete Community 79
- The Role of Politics: the Master Art? 86
- Concluding Thoughts 92
- 5 Cicero: The Cosmic Significance of Politics 98
- Cicero as Champion of the Res Publica 100
- What is Right (Ius): The Rule of Law (Lex) and Normative Anthropology 104
- Virtues, Duties, and Laws 107
- 6 Christianity: A Political Religion? 118
- The New Testament and Beyond 119
- Pauline Cosmopolitanism 127
- The Roman Empire Christianized 137
- The Advent of Tempora Christiana (The Christian Era) 141
- 7 Augustine, Aquinas, and Marsilius of Padua: Politics for Saints, Sinners, and Heretics 148
- St. Augustine 151
- The Two Rationales of Augustine's City of God 151
- The Two Cities 152
- Theoretical Political Consequences 158
- Christians as Good Citizens of Secular States? 164
- St. Thomas Aquinas 169
- The Human Function: Nature and Praeternature 171
- The "Parts" of the Eternal Law: Divine, Natural, and Human Law 183
- Political Forms, Procedures, and other Particulars 192
- Aquinas's Political Philosophy: Some Concluding Observations 200
- Marsilius of Padua 203
- The Autonomous but Coercive Regnum (Political Community) and Its Law 205
- The Political Wisdom and Authority of the Whole Body of Citizens 213
- 8 Hobbes and Locke: Seventeenth-Century Contractarianism 226
- Thomas Hobbes: Natural Law Simplified and Modernized 232
- Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the Human Function 233
- Law, Contracts, and the "Leviathan" 248
- The Civil State: Sovereign and Subjects 254
- Concluding Thoughts on God and Sovereigns 260
- John Locke: Divinely Mandated Autonomy, Natural Rights, and Property 262
- Moral Knowledge and Human Motivation 264
- The State of Nature and the Social Contract 270
- Property and Liberal Political Theory: Lockean Origins 277
- 9 Rousseau and Marx: Reaction to Bourgeois-Liberalism 290
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Autonomous Citizens for the True Republic 292
- The Intertwined Development of Civilization, Corruption, and Morality 295
- The Social Contract and the Émile: Republics and Republican Citizens 304
- Politics and the Human Function 317
- Karl Marx: Distortion of the Human Function Within the Bourgeois-Liberal State 319
- Political Emancipation and the Bourgeois-Liberal State 324
- Alienation and the Human Function 332
- Historical Materialism and the Coming of Communism 337
- Concluding Thoughts: the Cookshops of the Future made Present 339
- 10 Mill and Rawls: Liberalism Ascendant? 348
- John Stuart Mill: Perfectionist Liberalism 351
- Mill's Liberalism 352
- Liberty and Government 361
- Democratic Republicanism 365
- Concluding Thought on Mill and Liberalism 372
- John Rawls: Political (and Nonperfectionist?) Liberalism 372
- Egalitarian Justice as the "First Virtue of Social Institutions": Basic Assumptions 373
- Rawls's Two Principles of Justice: What They Apply to and Why 383
- Consensus, Public Reason, and the Distinction between Citoyen and Bourgeois 392
- The Ultimate Justification of Rawlsian Liberalism? 397.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199860517
- 0199860513
- OCLC:
- 755640781
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