Social and Political Philosophy Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives

by Sterba, James P.

• ISBN13: 9780534602109
• ISBN10: 053460210X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-24
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This anthology, with general and reading-specific introductions by the editor, puts the historical development of Western social and political philosophy into both feminist and multicultural perspectives. Each of the book's sections provides a basic foundation of classic Western readings, followed by articles with feminist and multicultural perspectives.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
General Introduction	1	(3)
I Plato	4	(42)
Introduction	4	(2)
The Republic	6	(27)
Plato
The Function of Equal Education in Plato's Republic	33	(7)
Lynda Lange
Confucius: The Analects	40	(6)
Recommended Readings	45	(1)
II Aristotle and Musonius Rufus	46	(39)
Introduction	46	(3)
Nicomachean Ethics	49	(8)
Aristotle
The Politics	57	(11)
Aristotle
Discourses	68	(4)
Musonius Rufus
Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul	72	(8)
Elizabeth V. Spelman
Ewe Proverbs	80	(5)
Recommended Readings	83	(2)
III Augustine and Christine de Pizan	85	(19)
Introduction	85	(3)
The City of God	88	(7)
Augustine
Confessions	95	(1)
Augustine
The Book of the City of Ladies	95	(3)
Christine de Pizan
Misogynism and Virginal Feminism in the Fathers of the Church	98	(3)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
Pre-Columbian Philosophical Perspectives	101	(3)
Jorge Valadez
Recommended Readings	103	(1)
IV Aquinas	104	(35)
Introduction	104	(2)
Summa Theologica	106	(13)
Thomas Aquinas
On Kingship	119	(3)
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica	122	(3)
Thomas Aquinas
The Equality of Men and Women	125	(7)
Marie le jars de Gournay
Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed	132	(7)
Recommended Readings	137	(2)
V Hobbes	139	(45)
Introduction	139	(2)
Leviathan	141	(26)
Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes, Patriarchy and Conjugal Right	167	(13)
Carole Pateman
The Devastation of the Indies	180	(4)
Bartolome de Las Casas
Recommended Readings	183	(1)
VI Locke	184	(41)
Introduction	184	(2)
Two Treatises on Government	186	(21)
John Locke
Women and John Locke; Or, Who Owns the Apples in the Garden of Eden?	207	(15)
Lorenne M. G. Clark
We Must be United	222	(3)
Tecumseh
Recommended Readings	224	(1)
VII Rousseau	225	(62)
Introduction	225	(2)
A Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind	227	(9)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
On the Social Contract	236	(14)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile	250	(13)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Vindication of the Rights of Women	263	(7)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Perversions of Justice: A Native-American Examination of the Doctrine of U.S. Rights to Occupancy in North America	270	(17)
Ward Churchill
Recommended Readings	285	(2)
VIII Kant	287	(31)
Introduction	287	(2)
Theory and Practice	289	(5)
Immanuel Kant
The Metaphysic of Morals	294	(2)
Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace	296	(4)
Immanuel Kant
Kant: ``An Honest but Narrow-Minded Bourgeois''?	300	(12)
Susan Mendus
On Satyagraha	312	(6)
Mohandas Gandi
Recommended Readings	316	(2)
IX Mill and Harriet Taylor	318	(54)
Introduction	318	(2)
Utilitarianism	320	(14)
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty	334	(6)
John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women	340	(11)
John Stuart Mill
Enfranchisement of Women	351	(3)
Harriet Taylor
Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women	354	(11)
Mary Lyndon Shanley
Universal Love	365	(7)
Mo Tzu
Recommended Readings	371	(1)
X Marx and Engels	372	(37)
Introduction	372	(2)
Communist Manifesto	374	(5)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Critique of the Gotha Program	379	(3)
Karl Marx
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State	382	(10)
Friedrich Engels
The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union	392	(11)
Heidi Hartman
Buddhist Economics	403	(6)
E. F. Schumacher
Recommended Readings	408	(1)
XI Rawls and Hospers	409	(50)
Introduction	409	(3)
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement	412	(15)
John Rawls
The Libertarian Manifesto	427	(11)
John Hospers
Justice as Fairness-For Whom?	438	(11)
Susan Okin
The Political Theory of Islam	449	(10)
Abu'l A'la Mawdudi
Recommended Readings	458	(1)
XII Habermas and Foucault	459	(40)
Introduction	459	(2)
Discourse Ethics	461	(7)
Jurgen Habermas
Power/Knowledge	468	(9)
Michel Foucault
Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power	477	(14)
Sandra Lee Bartky
Philosophy, Politics and Power: An Afro-American Perspective	491	(8)
Cornel West
Recommended Readings	497	(2)
XIII MacIntyre and Charles Taylor	499	(39)
Introduction	499	(3)
The Political and Social Structures of the Common Good	502	(6)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Atomism	508	(12)
Charles Taylor
Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community	520	(11)
Marilyn Friedman
Ancient Futures	531	(7)
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Recommended Readings	537	(1)
XIV Cornel West and Martha Nussbaum	538	(32)
Introduction	538	(1)
The Politics of American Neo-Pragmatism	539	(10)
Cornel West
The Future of Feminist Liberalism	549	(21)
Martha Nussbaum
Recommended Readings	569	(1)
XV Concluding Philosophical Postscript: Reconciling Social and Political Ideals	570
James P. Sterba