Social and Political Philosophy Classic and Contemporary Readings

by Veltman, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9780195424294
• ISBN10: 0195424298
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Social and Political Philosophy: Classic and Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive primary-source anthology of readings on social and political thought. Ranging from ancient classics to contemporary works, this unique text combines the essential classics in the field--including the work of ancient Greek political philosophers and modern social contract theorists--with a significant amount of contemporary work on issues pertaining to poverty, drug legalization, multiculturalism, race, gender, and class. It also integrates contemporary feminist perspectives.

Table of Contents

Ancient Greek Philosophers
Plato	p. 2
Crito	p. 3
Republic	p. 16
Aristotle	p. 44
Politics	p. 45
Modern Philosophers
Thomas Hobbes	p. 78
Leviathan	p. 79
John Locke	p. 109
The Second Treatise of Government	p. 111
Letter concerning Toleration	p. 138
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	p. 148
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality	p. 149
Of the Social Contract	p. 163
David Hume	p. 186
Of the Original Contract	p. 187
Nineteenth-Century Philosophers
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill	p. 200
On Liberty	p. 202
The Subjection of Women	p. 222
The Enfranchisement of Women	p. 231
Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels	p. 241
'Alienated Labour'	p. 242
The Communist Manifesto	p. 251
Twentieth-Century Philosophers
Hannah Arendt	p. 268
The Human Condition	p. 269
Jurgen Habermas	p. 279
'The Public Sphere'	p. 280
'Three Normative Models of Democracy'	p. 285
John Rawls	p. 296
A Theory of Justice	p. 297
John Hospers	p. 321
'What Libertarianism Is'	p. 322
Carole Pateman	p. 334
The Sexual Contract	p. 335
Charles Mills	p. 349
The Racial Contract	p. 350
Michael Walzer	p. 370
Spheres of Justice	p. 371
'Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses'	p. 390
Susan Moller Okin	p. 400
Justice, Gender, and the Family	p. 401
'Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?'	p. 417
Charles Taylor	p. 430
Atomism'	p. 431
'The Politics of Recognition'	p. 445
Will Kymlicka	p. 464
Multicultural Citizenship	p. 465
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