Readings in Social and Political Philosophy

Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780195095180ISBN10: 0195095189 Paperback, 472 pages
Feb 1996,  In Stock

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Table of Contents

I. Political Obligation and Consent
Crito , Plato
From Second Treatise of Civil Government , John Locke
Of the Original Contract , David Hume
Obligation and Consent, II , Hanna F. Pitkin
The Principle of Fair Play , A. John Simmons
II. Freedom and Coercion
Of the Liberty of Subjects , Thomas Hobbes
Two Concepts of Liberty , Isaiah Berlin
What's Wrong with Negative Liberty , Charles Taylor
From "On Liberty" , John Stuart Mill
The "Open Society" and Its Fallacies , Willmoore Kendall
Freedom of Expression and Categories of Expression , Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr.
Liberty and Harm to Others , David Lyons
We Do Not Have a Right To Liberty , Ronald Dworkin
III. Justice and Equality
From Discourse on the Origin of Inequality , Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Kantian Conception of Equality , John Rawls
Distributive Justice , John Rawls
Distributive Justice , Robert Nozick
Liberty, Contract, and Contribution , Thomas K. Scanlon, Jr.
Equality , Thomas Nagel
Communitarian and Liberal Theories of the Good , Jeffrey Paul and Fred D. Miller, Jr.
Responsibility, Reactive Attitudes, and Liberalism in Philosophy and Politics , Samuel Scheffler
The Domain of the Political and Overlapping Consensus , John Rawls
IV. Democracy and Representation
From Considerations on Representative Government , John Stuart Mill
Open Government and Just Legislation: A Defense of Democracy , William N. Nelson
A Paradox in the Theory of Democracy , Richard Wollheim
Democracy Without Preference , David M. Estlund
Losing the Faith: Feminism and Democracy , Susan Mendus
Political Representation , Hanna F. Pitkin
Implementing Representation: A Framework and Two Applications , Bruce F. Cain and W.T. Jones