This textbook, now in itsa second edition, is designed to equip students with a basic 'conceptual toolkit' for the study of political thought: (i) a basic political vocabulary, (ii) a conceptual vocabulary and (iii) an historical vocabulary.
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An Introduction to Political Thought
A Conceptual Toolkit, 2nd Edition
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Political PhilosophyTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION - HISTORICAL: The Nature of Political Thought / CONCEPTUAL: Conceptual Tools for Everyday Living
- SECTION I - CLASSICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
- CHAPTER ONE - HISTORICAL: Plato / CONCEPTUAL: Is There a Universal Moral Order?
- CHAPTER TWO - HISTORICAL: Aristotle / CONCEPTUAL: Is Politics Natural?
- SECTION II - MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- CHAPTER THREE - HISTORICAL: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau / CONCEPTUAL: Liberty and Human Nature: What is Freedom?
- CHAPTER FOUR - HISTORICAL: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau II / CONCEPTUAL: The Social Contract and the Artificiality of the State
- CHAPTER FIVE - HISTORICAL: Owen and Marx / CONCEPTUAL: Socialism and the Artificiality of Man
- SECTION III - CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDINGS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
- CHAPTER SIX - HISTORICAL: Bentham, Utilitarianism and Rights / CONCEPTUAL: How Do We Take People Seriously?
- CHAPTER SEVEN - HISTORICAL: Rawls, Cohen, Nozick and Walzer / CONCEPTUAL: Distributive Justice
- CHAPTER EIGHT - HISTORICAL: Rawls II, Kymlicka and Parekh / CONCEPTUAL: Liberalism and the Challenge of Multiculturalism
- SECTION IV - CHALLENGES TO UNIVERSALISM AND FOUNDATIONALISM
- CHAPTER NINE - HISTORICAL: The Internationalisation of Political Thought / CONCEPTUAL: Universal Principles in a Society of States
- CHAPTER TEN - HISTORICAL: Burke and Oakeshott / CONCEPTUAL: Conservatism: Reason vs Tradition
- CHAPTER ELEVEN - HISTORICAL: Feminism and Antifoundationalism / CONCEPTUAL: What’s Wrong with Universal Justice?
- AFTERWORD - HISTORICAL: Afterword / CONCEPTUAL: Current Engagements in Political Thought
- Index
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