This accessible and user-friendly text offers a broad survey of some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning social and political relations in modern society.
This text takes a new approach and understands philosophy not so much as a story of great thinkers or as a collection of philosophical positions but as a series of debates and disagreements in which students must participate.
This up-to-date introductory social and political philosophy text provides a survey of the major social and political ideals of our time and discusses the practical requirements of each of these...
Related Topics Plato, Rousseau, Continental Political Philosophy, Pluralism, The Difference Principle, Global Justice and ... Bentham, Jeremy (1948) An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, New York: Hafner Press.
Anthology of essays on social and political thought with a focus on modern Western political thought
This book surveys the main theories of applied social and political philosophy and those theories to contemporary social/political issues of race, gender, war, peace, and ethnicity.
This Handbook brings together philosophical work on how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and political factors.
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Social and Political Philosophy introduces some of the most important topics in contemporary political philosophy and questions whether these can be accommodated within the framework of liberal theory.
Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
This book presents a wide-ranging overview of Aristotle's political thought that makes him come alive as a philosopher who can speak to our own times.