Understanding the Political Philosophers From Ancient to Modern Times

Name: Understanding the Political Philosophers From Ancient to Modern Times
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ISBN: 9780415685375

ISBN-10: 0415685370

ISBN-13: 9780415685375

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Alan Haworth

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This lively and engaging guide invites you to climb inside the heads of the major political philosophers, as it were, and to see the world through their eyes. Organised historically - beginning with Socrates and concluding with post-Rawlsian theory - Alan Haworth presents the key ideas and developments with clarity and depth. Each chapter provides a concentrated study of a given thinker or group of thinkers and together they constitute a broad account of the main arguments in political philosophy.There are chapters on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, the Utilitarians, Marx, and post-Rawlsian developments. This updated and revised second edition also includes a new…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Caitrin Lynch is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Olin College. She is the author of Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry and Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory .



Preface to the second edition


Introduction



Athens



Socrates



Plato: The Republic



Aristotle



What happened next?



Reason and revolutions



Hobbes goes to Paris



Hobbes: raising the great Leviathan



Locke and the modern order



Locke: the argument for property



Rousseau



Modern times, modern themes



After the flood



John Stuart Mill: utilitarianism and liberalism



Marx



Rawls: through reason to justice



In Theory's wake



Rawls: constructing a 'political' liberalism



Concluding reflections


Timeline


References


Index