Lectures on the History of Political PhilosophyHarvard University Press, 30/06/2009 - 496 من الصفحات Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds. |
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... common good, or to other basic notions. Its merit, to the extent it has any, is that by study and reflection it may elaborate deeper and more instructive conceptions of basic political ideas that help us to clarify our judgments about ...
... common good, or to other basic notions. Its merit, to the extent it has any, is that by study and reflection it may elaborate deeper and more instructive conceptions of basic political ideas that help us to clarify our judgments about ...
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... common good. It then seeks a political agent to realize that truth in institutions, irrespective of whether that truth is freely accepted, or even understood. On this view, political philosophy's knowledge of the truth authorizes it to ...
... common good. It then seeks a political agent to realize that truth in institutions, irrespective of whether that truth is freely accepted, or even understood. On this view, political philosophy's knowledge of the truth authorizes it to ...
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... common good, and about what institutions and policies best promote them. Citizens must somehow acquire and understand these ideas if they are to be capable of making judgments about basic rights and liberties. So let's now ask: What ...
... common good, and about what institutions and policies best promote them. Citizens must somehow acquire and understand these ideas if they are to be capable of making judgments about basic rights and liberties. So let's now ask: What ...
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... common defense, the general welfare, and the blessings of liberty. The Declaration of Independence adds the value of equality and connects it with equal natural rights. It is safe to call these political values. I shall think of a ...
... common defense, the general welfare, and the blessings of liberty. The Declaration of Independence adds the value of equality and connects it with equal natural rights. It is safe to call these political values. I shall think of a ...
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... common good? Why isn't politics simply the struggle for power and influence—everyone trying to get their own way? Harold Lasswell said: “Politics is the study of who gets what and how.”5 Why isn't that all there is to it? Are we naive ...
... common good? Why isn't politics simply the struggle for power and influence—everyone trying to get their own way? Harold Lasswell said: “Politics is the study of who gets what and how.”5 Why isn't that all there is to it? Are we naive ...
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lectures on locke | 103 |
lectures on hume | 159 |
lectures on rousseau | 191 |
the General Will I | 214 |
The General Will II and the Question | 229 |
lectures on marx | 319 |
Associated Producers | 354 |
appendixes | 373 |
Five Lectures on Joseph Butler | 416 |
Course Outline | 458 |
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الصفحة 112 - The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions...
الصفحة 58 - So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death.
الصفحة 147 - To enjoy. As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his labour fix a property in; whatever is beyond this is more than his share, and belongs to others.
الصفحة 123 - Men being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
الصفحة 124 - Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death and, consequently, all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury, and all this only for the public good.
الصفحة 289 - That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.
الصفحة 350 - The life-process of society, which is based on the process of material production, does not strip off its mystical veil until it is treated as Classics in Politics: Marx and Engels ElecBook production by freely associated men, and is consciously regulated by them in accordance with a settled plan.
الصفحة 31 - For the savage people in many places of America, except the government of small families the concord whereof dependeth on natural lust, have no government at all, and live at this day in that brutish manner as I said before. Howsoever, it may be perceived what manner of life there would be where there were no common power to fear, by the manner of life which men that have formerly lived under a peaceful government use to degenerate into, in a civil war.
الصفحة 303 - In an improving state of the human mind, the influences are constantly on the increase, which tend to generate in each individual a feeling of unity with all the rest ; which feeling, if perfect, would make him never think of, or desire, any beneficial condition for himself, in the benefits of which they are not included.
الصفحة 31 - It may peradventure be thought there was never such a time nor condition of war as this ; and I believe it was never generally so over all the world, but there are many places where they live so now.