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Philosophical essays / Teodros Kiros.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kiros, Teodros, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Philosophy.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 101 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introducing the Democracy Project
- From oligarchy to democracy
- From democracy to tyranny
- Revisiting classical democracy through Aristotle's eyes
- From the state of nature to society: the commonwealth
- John Locke and modern liberal democracy
- John Locke and the state of nature
- John Locke on government
- Jean Jacques Rousseau on the social contract
- The general will and the social contract
- The origin of inequalities
- David Hume on the social contract
- James Madison and the Federalist
- Democracy as checks and balances
- Immanuel Kant on republicanism
- Hegel on the state: an introduction
- Hegel on the ethical state and the idea of law
- Marx on socialist democracy
- Marx on the state and pure democracy
- Alexis de Tocqueville: democracy in America
- Democratic values
- John Rawls and contemporary liberal democracy
- Participatory democracy
- Passion for justice and freedom
- Radical democracy: vision and morality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1569023379
- 9781569023372
- 1569023387
- 9781569023389
- OCLC:
- 655303703
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