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100 1 _aJones, Tudor
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245 1 0 _aModern political thinkers and ideas: an historical introduction /
_cTudor Jones
260 _aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_cc2002.
300 _axxiv, 216 p.
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _a1. Sovereignty Section A Historical development of the concept Essential aspects of sovereignty: meanings and usages Legal sovereignty Political sovereignty Internal sovereignty External sovereignty Conclusion Section B Machiavelli on the Prince's power Hobbes: the sovereignty of the Leviathan state Historical context: political and intellectual The case for absolute government The power and authority of the sovereign Locke on sovereignty as trusteeship Historical context: political and intellectual Underlying theoretical assumptions Distinctive features of Locke's theory Rousseau and popular sovereignty Historical context: political and intellectual The sovereign community The preconditions of popular sovereignty Further reading Contemporary debates Section C -- 2. Political obligation Section A - Historical development of the concept Voluntaristic theories Teleological theories Other 'duty' theories Limits to political obligation General justification for political obligation Section B -- Hobbes's theory of political obligation: social contract and security Historical context: political and intellectual Hobbes's views of human nature and the state of nature Hobbes's 'covenant' Conclusion - Locke's theory of political obligation: social contract, consent and natural rights Historical context: political and intellectual Locke's view of the state of nature Locke's two-stage social contract Locke's notion of consent Conclusion Rousseau's theory of political obligation: the general will and an ideal social contract Historical context: political and intellectual. Rousseau's ideal social contract Rousseau's concept of the general will Conclusion - Section C Contemporary debates Further reading 3. Liberty Section A Historical development of the concept: different traditions of interpreting liberty Accounts of 'negative' liberty in the history of modern political thought Accounts of 'positive' liberty in the history of political thought Conclusion Section B Locke on liberty as a natural right Historical context: political and intellectual Natural and civil liberty: the distinction and connection between them Locke's defence of religious freedom Conclusion Rousseau on moral and political freedom Historical context: political and intellectual The erosion of natural liberty The two aspects of 'true' freedom: moral and civil 'Forcing' someone to be free The critique of Rousseau's view of liberty Conclusion -- John Stuart Mill's defence of personal liberty Historical context: political and intellectual Mill's main concerns in On Liberty Mill's view of liberty Mill on the importance of individuality Limits to freedom of expression and action Conclusion -- T.H. Green's positive view of liberty Historical context: political and intellectual Green's view of the social individual Green's positive conception of liberty Green's positive view of the state Conclusion Section C Contemporary debates Further reading -- 4. Rights Section A Historical development of the concept of rights Critiques of theories of the natural rights of man Development of the concept of human rights in the twentieth century Problems associated with the concept of human rights Section B Locke's theory of natural rights Historical context: political and intellectual Locke's conception of natural rights. Locke's account of the right to property Conclusion -- Burke's case against the 'rights of man' and for'prescriptive' rights Historical context: political and intellectual Burke's critique of the doctrine of the 'rights of man' Burke's defence of inherited, 'prescriptive' rights Paine's defence of the rights of man Historical context: political and intellectual Paine's distinction between natural and civil rights Paine's status as a radical popularizer of natural-rights theory Paine's long-term influence Section C Contemporary debates Further reading 5. Equality Section A Formal or foundational equality Equality of opportunity Equality of outcome Section B Rousseau's vision of democratic equality Historical context: political and intellectual The inequality of civil society 'Natural' and 'artificial' inequalities The harmful effects of inequality Rousseau's egalitarian remedy Conclusion -- Wollstonecraft on equal rights for women Historical context: political and intellectual The case for equal civil and political rights for women Conclusion - John Stuart Mill on equality of opportunity and on equal status for women Historical context: political and intellectual Reward according to desert in industrial society Equality of status for women Conclusion Marx on equality in a communist society Historical context: political and intellectual Marx's critique of liberal ideas of equality Towards communist equality
650 0 _aPolitical science
_xHistory.
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