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Lectures on the history of political philosophy /

By: Rawls, John, 1921-2002.
Contributor(s): Freeman, Samuel Richard [editor].
Publisher: Cambridge, Ma. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007Description: xix, 476 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0674024923; 9780674024922:; 9780674024922; 9780674030633; 067403063X.Subject(s): Political science -- Philosophy -- HistoryDDC classification: 320.0109 RAW
Contents:
Introduction : remarks on political philosophy -- Lectures on Hobbes. Hobbes's secular moralism and the role of his social contract ; Human nature and the state of nature ; Hobbes's account of practical reasoning ; The role and powers of the sovereign ; Appendix : Hobbes index -- Lectures on Locke. His doctrine of natural law ; His account of a legitimate regime ; Property and the class state -- Lectures on Hume. "Of the social contract" ; Utility, justice, and the judicious spectator -- Lectures on Rousseau. The social contract : its problem ; The social contract : assumptions and the general will (I) ; The general will (II) and the question of stability -- Lectures on Mill. His conception of utility ; His account of justice ; The principle of liberty ; His doctrine as a whole ; Appendix : remarks on Mill's social theory -- Lectures on Marx. His view of capitalism as a social system ; His conception of right and justice ; His ideal : a society of freely associated producers.
Summary: With its clear and careful analysis of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds. Marked by Rawls's characteristic patience and curiosity, these lectures are a fitting final addition to his oeuvre, and to the history of political philosophy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : remarks on political philosophy -- Lectures on Hobbes. Hobbes's secular moralism and the role of his social contract ; Human nature and the state of nature ; Hobbes's account of practical reasoning ; The role and powers of the sovereign ; Appendix : Hobbes index -- Lectures on Locke. His doctrine of natural law ; His account of a legitimate regime ; Property and the class state -- Lectures on Hume. "Of the social contract" ; Utility, justice, and the judicious spectator -- Lectures on Rousseau. The social contract : its problem ; The social contract : assumptions and the general will (I) ; The general will (II) and the question of stability -- Lectures on Mill. His conception of utility ; His account of justice ; The principle of liberty ; His doctrine as a whole ; Appendix : remarks on Mill's social theory -- Lectures on Marx. His view of capitalism as a social system ; His conception of right and justice ; His ideal : a society of freely associated producers.

With its clear and careful analysis of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds. Marked by Rawls's characteristic patience and curiosity, these lectures are a fitting final addition to his oeuvre, and to the history of political philosophy.

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