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Lectures on the history of political philosophy

John Rawls 1921-2002 Samuel Richard Freeman

Cambridge, Mass Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2007

Localização: FFLCH - Fac. Fil. Let. e Ciências Humanas    (320.1 R261Le )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Lectures on the history of political philosophy
  • Autor: John Rawls 1921-2002
  • Samuel Richard Freeman
  • Assuntos: Rawls, John; Political science -- Philosophy -- History; FILOSOFIA POLÍTICA; Idées politiques -- Histoire; Politische Wissenschaft; Philosophie
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Descrição: Introduction : remarks on political philosophy -- Lectures on Hobbes. Hobbes's secular moralism and the role of his social contract ; Human nature and the state of nature ; Hobbes's account of practical reasoning ; The role and powers of the sovereign ; Appendix : Hobbes index -- Lectures on Locke. His doctrine of natural law ; His account of a legitimate regime ; Property and the class state -- Lectures on Hume. "Of the social contract" ; Utility, justice, and the judicious spectator -- Lectures on Rousseau. The social contract : its problem ; The social contract : assumptions and the general will (I) ; The general will (II) and the question of stability -- Lectures on Mill. His conception of utility ; His account of justice ; The principle of liberty ; His doctrine as a whole ; Appendix : remarks on Mill's social theory -- Lectures on Marx. His view of capitalism as a social system ; His conception of right and justice ; His ideal : a society of freely associated producers
    "This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the philosophy behind that tradition."--BOOK JACKET
  • Editor: Cambridge, Mass Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2007
  • Formato: xix, 476 p ill 25 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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