Western Political Thought: From Plato to MarxPearson Education India, 2009 - 252 sider Western Political Thought: From Plato to Marx is a lucid and comprehensive account of political thought that stretches from ancient Greece to the nineteenth century. Analysing political philosophies chronologically, this book offers valuable insights into the political structures of societies across the ages, and presents a wide perspective on the various social and political ideologies. Each of the 12 chapters contains excerpts from the original works by the philosophers, comprehensive reading list, and thought provoking questions on the philosophies discussed. |
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Side 14
... polis consisted of the main city surrounded by an agricultural hinterland. each city-state formed a separate and independent political unit. The age of archaic and classical Greece was not only the age of the spread of the Greek city ...
... polis consisted of the main city surrounded by an agricultural hinterland. each city-state formed a separate and independent political unit. The age of archaic and classical Greece was not only the age of the spread of the Greek city ...
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... polis by referring to the argument that much of Western political thought is a response to Athenian democracy. This claim is often repeated: 'The history of political thought in the West is largely the history of warnings about the ...
... polis by referring to the argument that much of Western political thought is a response to Athenian democracy. This claim is often repeated: 'The history of political thought in the West is largely the history of warnings about the ...
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... polis. It was on the basis of these new tribes that the membership of citizens from all over Attica to Athens's central political institutions was organized. 'This was the first systematic attempt to establish binding institutional ...
... polis. It was on the basis of these new tribes that the membership of citizens from all over Attica to Athens's central political institutions was organized. 'This was the first systematic attempt to establish binding institutional ...
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... polis continue to draw our modern imagination and why? 2. The political institutions of Athenian democracy: Between the 5th and the 3rd centuries BC, Athenian democracy operated through a set of political institutions which were ...
... polis continue to draw our modern imagination and why? 2. The political institutions of Athenian democracy: Between the 5th and the 3rd centuries BC, Athenian democracy operated through a set of political institutions which were ...
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... polis) be under their charge, even though they have no knowledge of navigation (statecraft). They laugh at the navigator, who actually knows how to guide the ship, because he is gazing at the sky and the stars. Plato reminds us, that ...
... polis) be under their charge, even though they have no knowledge of navigation (statecraft). They laugh at the navigator, who actually knows how to guide the ship, because he is gazing at the sky and the stars. Plato reminds us, that ...
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Moral Action and the Best Constitution | 49 |
Christian Political Thought in the Middle Ages | 71 |
Humanism and Republicanism | 86 |
Contract as the Basis of Political Obligation | 103 |
Theological Premises and Liberal Limits on Government | 125 |
Representative Government as the Maximizer of Utility | 162 |
The Benefits of the Liberty of Men and Women for Society | 179 |
The Social Conditions for a NonContractual Theory of Freedom | 198 |
The State and Class Struggle | 216 |
Afterword | 232 |
About the Author | 233 |
Index | 234 |
The General Will and Moral and Political Liberty | 142 |
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