Classics of Moral and Political Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classics of Moral and Political Theory write by Michael L. Morgan. This book was released on 2011-09-15. Classics of Moral and Political Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fifth edition of Michael L. Morgan's Classics of Moral and Political Theory broadens the scope and increases the versatility of this landmark anthology by offering new selections from Aristotle's Politics, Aquinas' Disputed Questions on Virtue and Treatise on Law, as well as the entirety of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration, Kant's To Perpetual Peace, and Nietzsche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life.
Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory
Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory write by Gregory S. Kavka. This book was released on 1986-10-21. Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years serious attempts have been made to systematize and develop the moral and political themes of great philosophers of the past. Kant, Locke, Marx, and the classical utilitarians all have their current defenders and arc taken seriously as expositors of sound moral and political views. It is the aim of this book to introduce Hobbes into this select group by presenting a plausible moral and political theory inspired by Leviathan. Using the techniques of analytic philosophy and elementary game theory, the author develops a Hobbesian argument that justifies the liberal State and reconciles the rights and interests of rational individuals with their obligations. Hobbes's case against anarchy, based on his notorious claim that life outside the political State would be a "war of all against all," is analyzed in detail, while his endorsement of the absolutist State is traced to certain false hypotheses about political sociology. With these eliminated, Hobbes's principles support a liberal redistributive (or "satisfactory") State and a limited right of revolution. Turning to normative issues, the book explains Hobbes's account of morality based on enlightened self-interest and shows how the Hobbesian version of social contract theory justifies the political obligations of citizens of satisfactory States.
Moral and Political Philosophy
Moral and Political Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moral and Political Philosophy write by Paul Smith. This book was released on 2008-04-30. Moral and Political Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A clear and concise introduction to moral and political philosophy which critically analyses arguments about controversial and topical practical issues – drug laws, justifications of punishment, civil disobedience, whether there is a duty to obey the law, and global poverty.
Rightness as Fairness
Rightness as Fairness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rightness as Fairness write by Marcus Arvan. This book was released on 2016-03-29. Rightness as Fairness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rightness as Fairness provides a uniquely fruitful method of 'principled fair negotiation' for resolving applied moral and political issues that requires merging principled debate with real-world negotiation.
The Moral Foundations of Politics
The Moral Foundations of Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moral Foundations of Politics write by Ian Shapiro. This book was released on 2012-10-30. The Moral Foundations of Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists of the social contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches from Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part of the book Shapiro examines partisans and critics of democracy from Plato’s time until our own. He concludes with an assessment of democracy’s strengths and limitations as the font of political legitimacy. The book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources of political allegiance.
