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Homage to political philosophy : the good society from Plato to the present /

"This book offers a model introduction to political philosophy, addressing philosophers from Plato to Rawls and Nozick, with each thinker treated as exploring perennial problems. These include ethical truth, free will, the common good, whether God exists, whether America could become a Hobbesia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flynn, James R. (James Robert), 1934- (autor.)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Political philosophy dead or alive
  • Preface to Plato
  • Plato and Thrasymachus
  • Slavery and race
  • Aristotle and Leo Strauss
  • Men and women
  • Aquinas and your soul
  • Does God exist?
  • Hobbes and the state of nature
  • The America who would be king
  • Locke and Rousseau
  • Appeals to nature
  • Mill and utilitarianism
  • Free speech and the universities
  • Benedict and James
  • Postmodernism
  • Nietzsche and Sartre
  • Oxbridge nice ethics
  • Marx and history
  • Do we have a future?
  • Ayer and moral language
  • How to conduct a moral debate
  • Tawney and rights
  • Humanizing the market
  • Rawls and Nozick
  • Huxley and Skinner
  • Is free will possible?
  • Scientific humanism.