An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

2010-01-14
An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

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  • Author: A. R. M. Murray
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136971157
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 172

First published in 1953, this seminal introduction to political philosophy is intended for both the student of political theory and for the general reader. After an introduction which explains the nature and purpose of philosophy, Dr Murray provides a critical examination of the principle theories advanced by political philosophers from Plato to Marx, paying special attention to contemporary issues. The book also makes an attempt to define the essential issues of philosophical significance in contemporary politics, with special reference to the conflict between political authority and individual rights, and to show how the different moral assumptions underlying authoritarian and democratic systems of government are ultimately based upon different theories of logic.

An Introduction to Political Philosophy

1953
An Introduction to Political Philosophy

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  • Author: Alexander R. M. Murray
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

Social Ends and Political Means (Routledge Revivals)

2015-06-03
Social Ends and Political Means (Routledge Revivals)

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  • Author: Ted Honderich
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317515838
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

Leading British, American and European philosophers contribute to this collection of essays, first published in 1976, in political philosophy. They are essays which have to do in different ways with better societies than the ones we have, and with ways of getting them. They exemplify what can fairly be called real political philosophy. Its past makers have been Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Mill and Marx, and it consists in advocacy of certain social ends and of certain means, rather than uncommitted inquiry or comment. The advocacy is of a kind, of course, which depends on analysis and argument. The book will be of interest not only to those who are primarily concerned with philosophy, but students of politics as well.

An Introduction to Political Philosophy

2006
An Introduction to Political Philosophy

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  • Author: Jonathan Wolff
  • Publisher: American Chemical Society
  • ISBN: 019929609X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

In this book Wolff looks at the works of Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Rawls and examines how the debates between these philosophers have developed.

Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

2009-07-15
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

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  • Author: Raymond Plant
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135195676
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 262

This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration. Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of ‘community’.

An Introduction to Political Philosophy

1959
An Introduction to Political Philosophy

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  • Author: Alexander Rainy Maclean Murray
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  • Category : Political science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

Political Argument (Routledge Revivals)

2010-10-14
Political Argument (Routledge Revivals)

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  • Author: Brian Barry
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136832599
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

Since its publication in 1965, Brian Barry's seminal work has occupied an important role in the revival of Anglo-American political philosophy. A number of ideas and terms in it have become part of the standard vocabulary, such as the distinction between "ideal-regarding" and "want-regarding" principles and the division of principles into aggregative and distributive. The book provided the first precise analysis of the concept of political values having trade-off relations and its analysis of the notion of the public interest has also been significant.

Social and Political Philosophy

2002
Social and Political Philosophy

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  • Author: John Philip Christman
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 0415217989
  • Category : Electronic books
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 263

This accessible and user-friendly text offers a broad survey of some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning social and political relations in modern society.

Nonsense upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals)

2014-10-03
Nonsense upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals)

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  • Author: Jeremy Waldron
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317587227
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 246

In Nonsense upon Stilts ̧ first published in 1987, Waldron includes and discusses extracts from three classic critiques of the idea of natural rights embodied in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Each text is prefaced by an historical introduction and an analysis of its main themes. The collection as a whole in introduced with an essay tracing the philosophical background to the three critiques as well as the eighteenth-century idea of natural rights which they attacked. But the point of reproducing these works is not merely historical. Modern attacks on ‘rights-based’ political philosophy mirror the concerns of Bentham, Burke and Marx. Jeremy Waldron has therefore added an extensive concluding essay which relates these classic texts to the modern discussion of rights and re-examines the idea of rights in the light of contemporary critiques. This text provides an invaluable teaching tool for courses in politics and philosophy.

Nonsense Upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals)

2014-07-25
Nonsense Upon Stilts (Routledge Revivals)

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  • Author: Jeremy Waldron
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781138822429
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 246

In Nonsense upon Stilts¸ first published in 1987, Waldron includes and discusses extracts from three classic critiques of the idea of natural rights embodied in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Each text is prefaced by an historical introduction and an analysis of its main themes. The collection as a whole in introduced with an essay tracing the philosophical background to the three critiques as well as the eighteenth-century idea of natural rights which they attacked. But the point of reproducing these works is not merely historical. Modern attacks on 'rights-based' political philosophy mirror the concerns of Bentham, Burke and Marx. Jeremy Waldron has therefore added an extensive concluding essay which relates these classic texts to the modern discussion of rights and re-examines the idea of rights in the light of contemporary critiques. This text provides an invaluable teaching tool for courses in politics and philosophy.