The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy

by Simon, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9780631221265
• ISBN10: 0631221263
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy brings together a collection of newly commissioned essays which examine fundamental issues in social and political theory. Written by leading social and political philosophers, each essay provides a map to the history of the issue at hand and a judicious assessment of the main arguments that have been brought to bear upon that issue.

Author Biography

Robert L. Simon is Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College. He is author of numerous articles in social and political philosophy as well as Fair Play (1991) and Neutrality and the Academic Ethic (1994), and co-author of The Individual and the Political Order, (third edition, 1998). He is currently working on issues in discourse ethics and on the ethics of competition in athletics, and is a past president of the International Association of the Philosophy of Sport.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Introduction: Social and Political Philosophy - Sorting Out the Issues	1	(16)
Robert L. Simon
Part I Core Principles and the Liberal Democratic State
Political Obligation and Authority	17	(21)
A. John Simmons
Liberty, Coercion, and the Limits of the State	38	(22)
Alan Wertheimer
Justice	60	(25)
Christopher Health Wellman
Equality	85	(21)
Richard J. Arneson
Preference, Rationality, and Democratic Theory	106	(25)
Ann E. Cudd
Part II Liberalism, Its Critics, and Alternative Approaches
Marx's Legacy	131	(23)
Richard W. Miller
Feminism and Political Theory	154	(23)
Virginia Held
Liberalism and the Challenge of Communitarianism	177	(20)
James P. Sterba
Liberal Theories and their Critics	197	(24)
William Nelson
Part III Pluralism, Diversity, and Deliberation
Deliberative Democracy	221	(18)
James S. Fishkin
Citizenship and Pluralism	239	(32)
Daniel M. Weinstock
The New Enlightenment: Critical Reflections on the Political Significance of Race	271	(21)
A. Todd Franklin
Religion and Liberal Democracy	292	(27)
Christopher J. Eberle
Select Bibliography	319	(2)
Index	321