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1 online resource. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Politics and human nature ; The idea of human nature or the human good as 'function' : normative anthropology ; My 'story' of political philosophy, and my cast of characters ; Enduring issues in political philosophy -- Classical Greek political philosophy : beginnings -- Nature or nurture? ; Protagoras's democratic traditionalism ; The functionalistic foundation of the political aretai in nature (physis) ; Glaucon's contractarian political theory -- Plato : government for corrupted intellects -- Socrates' polis of pigs ; The 'republic' of Plato's Republic ; The human ergon and the purpose of political organization ; Furthering rationality by means of the polis? ; Why should anyone return to the cave? ; Plato and 'the rule of law' -- Aristotle : politics as the master art -- The human good : intellectual and political ; Acting correctly (eupraxia) as a grand end? ; The polis as a complete community ; The role of politics : the master art? ; Concluding thoughts -- Cicero : the cosmic significance of politics -- Cicero as champion of the res publica ; What is right (ius) : the rule of law (lex) and normative anthropology ; Virtues, duties, and laws -- Christianity : a political religion? -- The New Testament and beyond ; Pauline cosmopolitanism ; The Roman Empire Christianized ; The advent of Tempora Christiana (the Christian era) -- Augustine, Aquinas and Marsilius of Padua : politics for saints, sinners, and heretics -- St. Augustine ; The two rationales of Augustine's City of God ; The two cities ; Theoretical political consequences ; Christians as good citizens of secular states? ; St. Thomas Aquinas ; The human function : nature and praeternature ; The 'parts' of the eternal law : divine, natural, and human law ; Political forms, procedures, and other particulars ; Aquinas' political philosophy : some concluding observations ; Marsilius of Padua ; The autonomous but coercive regnum (political community) and its law ; The political wisdom and authority of the whole body of citizens -- Hobbes and Locke : seventeenth-century contractarianism -- Thomas Hobbes : natural law simplified and modernized ; Natural law, natural rights, and the human function ; Law, contracts, and the 'Leviathan' ; The civil state : sovereigns and subjects ; Concluding thoughts on God and sovereigns ; John Locke : divinely mandated autonomy, natural rights, and property ; Moral knowledge and human motivation ; The state of nature and the social contract ; Property and liberal political theory : Lockean origins -- Rousseau and Marx : reaction to bourgeois-liberalism -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau : autonomous citizens for the true republic ; The intertwined development of civilization, corruption, and morality ; The social contract and the Émile : republics and republican citizens ; Politics and the human function ; Karl Marx : distortion of the human function within the bourgeois-liberal state ; Political emancipation and the bourgeois-liberal state ; Alienation and the human function ; Historical materialism and the coming of communism ; Concluding thoughts : the cookshops of the future made present -- Mill and Rawls : liberalism ascendant? -- John Stuart Mill : perfectionist liberalism ; Mill's liberalism ; Liberty and government ; Democratic republicanism ; Concluding thought on Mill and liberalism ; John Rawls : political (and non-perfectionist?) liberalism ; Egalitarian justice as the "first virtue of social institutions" : basic assumptions ; Rawls' two principles of justice : what they apply to and why ; Consensus, public reason, and the distinction between citoyen and bourgeois ; The ultimate justification of Rawlsian liberalism? ; Epilogue. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Original 9780199860517 0199860513 (DLC) 2011038850 |
| ISBN |
9780199974344 (electronic bk.) |
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0199974349 (electronic bk.) |
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9780199860517 |
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0199860513 |
| OCLC # |
EBC978154 |
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