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Lectures on the history of political philosophy / John Rawls ; edited by Samuel Freeman

Author
Rawls, John, 1921-2002
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
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1 online resource (xix, 476 pages) : illustrations
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Freeman, Samuel Richard
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Contents
Introduction : remarks on political philosophy -- 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 -- Lectures on Locke. His doctrine of natural law ; His account of a legitimate regime ; Property and the class state -- Lectures on Hume. "Of the social contract" ; Utility, justice, and the judicious spectator -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Summary
"This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the philosophy behind that tradition."--Jacket
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9780674042568 (electronic bk.)
0674042565 (electronic bk.)
0674024923 (alk. paper)
9780674024922 (alk. paper)
9780674030633 (pbk.)
067403063X (pbk.)
0674024923
9780674024922
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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