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. |
Inni boken
Resultat 6-10 av 84
Side 27
... human conduct, such as how human beings could live good lives. This was the central question bequeathed by Socrates to his followers. 'In the development of Greek thought', Socrates is said to be 'the first to establish the eudaemonist ...
... human conduct, such as how human beings could live good lives. This was the central question bequeathed by Socrates to his followers. 'In the development of Greek thought', Socrates is said to be 'the first to establish the eudaemonist ...
Side 35
... human nature that underlies the concept of virtue and justice. After all, if making individuals virtuous is an art, then as in the other arts, the practitioner of this art must also know the nature of her material, in this case, human ...
... human nature that underlies the concept of virtue and justice. After all, if making individuals virtuous is an art, then as in the other arts, the practitioner of this art must also know the nature of her material, in this case, human ...
Side 39
... human race, as I believe—and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day. Republic, Book V Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of ...
... human race, as I believe—and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day. Republic, Book V Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of ...
Side 40
... Human beings have the capacity to understand this rational order, if they develop their intellectual capacities by training in mathematics and dialectics. For Plato, the goal of human life was a life of reason. A rational individual ...
... Human beings have the capacity to understand this rational order, if they develop their intellectual capacities by training in mathematics and dialectics. For Plato, the goal of human life was a life of reason. A rational individual ...
Side 44
... human beings simply lack sufficient reason to decide important things for themselves, he also considered them ... human attribute and on the role of reason in human life is valuable, but Plato went wrong, critics charge, not only in ...
... human beings simply lack sufficient reason to decide important things for themselves, he also considered them ... human attribute and on the role of reason in human life is valuable, but Plato went wrong, critics charge, not only in ...
Innhold
1 | |
13 | |
26 | |
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 |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Western Political Thought: An Historical Introduction from the Origins to ... John Bowle Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1961 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
action Aquinas argued Aristotle Aristotle’s Athenian democracy Athens Augustine become Bentham Book Cambridge University Press capitalist Catholic century Chapter Christian Church citizens city-states civil society conception constitution context defence democratic desire dialogues Discourses economic edith Hamilton equality eudaimonia exist form of government Greek happiness Hegel Hobbes Hobbes’s human Ibid idea individual liberty individual’s inequality interests Jeremy Bentham John Locke justice labour power laws of nature legislative Leviathan live Locke Locke’s Machiavelli man’s Marx Marx’s means Mill Mill’s modern monarch moral Nichomachean Ethics one’s Oxford University Press Parliament person Philip Schofield Plato pleasure polis political community political institutions Political Philosophy political power political theory prince principle production Quentin Skinner question rational reason religious Republic Rousseau rule Skinner slaves social contract Socrates sovereign subjects things thinkers tion Treatises of Government utilitarianism virtue Western political thought women writings