Arguing about political philosophy by Zwolinski, Matt, editor instant download
xviii, 721 pages ; 26 cm, \"About Political Philosophy is an engaging survey of political philosophy perfect for beginning and advanced undergraduates. Selections cover classic philosophical sources such as Rousseau and Locke, as well as contemporary writers such as Nozick and Dworkin. In addition, this text includes a number of readings drawn from economics, literature, and sociology which serve to introduce philosophical questions about politics in a novel and intriguing way. As well as standard topics such as political authority and distributive justice, special attention is given to global issues which have become especially pressing in recent years, such as the right of individuals or groups to secede, the nature of global distributive justice, the morality of immigration, and the moral status of war and terrorism.\"--BOOK JACKET, Previous edition: 2009, Includes bibliographical references and index, Part 1: Foundation Concepts. -- 1. The state of nature as a state of war / Thomas Hobbes -- 2. The evolution of cooperation / Robert Axelrod -- 3. The state of nature and the law of nature / John Locke -- 4. Of the original contract / David Hume -- 5. Society without a state / Murray N. Rothbard -- 6. Non-contractual society: a feminist view / Virginia Held -- 7. The racial contract / Charles Mills -- 8. Crito / Plato -- 9. The perils of obedience / Stanley Milgram -- 10. Letter from a Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King -- 11. Is there a Prima Facie duty to obey the law? / M.B.E. Smith -- 12. Universal Declaration of Human Rights / United Nations -- 13. Making sense of human rights / James W. Nickel -- 14. Libertarian rights / Robert Nozick -- 15. Justice as convention / David Hume -- 16. Justice and utility / Jon Stuart Mill -- 17. A theory of justice / John Rawls -- 18. The procedural republic and the unencumbered self / Michael J. Sandel -- 19. Justice as fairness: political not metaphysical / John Rawls -- 20. The moral foundations of liberal neutrality /…
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