Lectures on the history of political philosophy [
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ,
c2007
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : remarks on political philosophy
- 2. Lectures on Hobbes. Hobbes's secular moralism and the role of his social contract ; Human nature and the state of nature ; Hobbes's account of practical reasoning ; The role and powers of the sovereign ; Appendix : Hobbes index
- 3. Lectures on Locke. His doctrine of natural law ; His account of a legitimate regime ; Property and the class state
- 4. Lectures on Hume. "Of the social contract" ; Utility, justice, and the judicious spectator
- 5. Lectures on Rousseau. The social contract : its problem ; The social contract : assumptions and the general will (I) ; The general will (II) and the question of stability
- 6. Lectures on Mill. His conception of utility ; His account of justice ; The principle of liberty ; His doctrine as a whole ; Appendix : remarks on Mill's social theory
- 7. Lectures on Marx. His view of capitalism as a social system ; His conception of right and justice ; His ideal : a society of freely associated producers