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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... book to increase our understanding of ourselves and of our political situation. In which way do these works of political thought add to our self-knowledge is a question that remains to be answered. Gadamer believed that all human beings ...
... book to increase our understanding of ourselves and of our political situation. In which way do these works of political thought add to our self-knowledge is a question that remains to be answered. Gadamer believed that all human beings ...
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... books for princes in 15th–16th century Italy to specialist historians. For Skinner, to understand a statement is to know more than its meaning; it is to also grasp the illocutionary force11 of that statement. It is knowledge of the ...
... books for princes in 15th–16th century Italy to specialist historians. For Skinner, to understand a statement is to know more than its meaning; it is to also grasp the illocutionary force11 of that statement. It is knowledge of the ...
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... book, a series of thinkers are chronologically arranged in successive chapters, we should not take this to mean that each of these thinkers has provided us with successively better designed new political institutions, since some of ...
... book, a series of thinkers are chronologically arranged in successive chapters, we should not take this to mean that each of these thinkers has provided us with successively better designed new political institutions, since some of ...
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... book was that in order to avoid misinterpreting the ideas of a thinker, we have to place that thinker in his or her historical context. We have to be aware of the social and political conditions that the thinker is responding to. Since ...
... book was that in order to avoid misinterpreting the ideas of a thinker, we have to place that thinker in his or her historical context. We have to be aware of the social and political conditions that the thinker is responding to. Since ...
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... Books lack the attentiveness and responsiveness of true philosophical teaching.'13 no wonder, then, that we have to depend on Plato's writings to become familiar with Socratic ideas. Our most familiar image of Socrates is drawn from ...
... Books lack the attentiveness and responsiveness of true philosophical teaching.'13 no wonder, then, that we have to depend on Plato's writings to become familiar with Socratic ideas. Our most familiar image of Socrates is drawn from ...
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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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