Smith on Hegel Richard Miller on Marx and Engels Jeremy Waldron on Mill Thomas Christiano on Nozick Thomas A. His political philosophy was rooted in 'social contract' theory. Experience then guides them to the knowledge and the best form of life, which includes choosing to form governments to make life and society better. Brown on Hamilton and Madison Paul Guyer on Kant Steven B. John Locke believed people are born as blank slates-with no preexisting knowledge or moral leanings. John Simmons on Locke Joshua Cohen on Rousseau and Rawls Donald W. 26), Locke later proclaims the chief matter of Property to be the earth itself and contends, God and his Reason commanded him to subdue the Earth, i.e.
Masters on Machiavelli Jean Hampton on Hobbes A. These introductions include Richard Kraut on Plato and Aristotle Paul J. An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts brings together Professor Tully’s most important and innovative statements on Locke in a systematic treatment of the latter’s thought that is at once contextual and critical. The readings are substantial or complete texts, not fragments.Īn especially valuable feature of this volume is that the works of each author are introduced with an engaging essay by a leading contemporary authority. James Tully, An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1993). (Learn how and when to remove these template messages).
Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. Locke is also a precursor of liberalism, his thought has been modeled by the French philosophers of the Enlightenment. For the textbook, see History of Political Philosophy. The book includes work from major nineteenth-century thinkers (Hegel, Marx and Engels, Mill) and twentieth-century theorists (Rawls, Nozick, Foucault, Habermas, Nussbaum) and also presents a variety of notable documents and addresses, including the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. John Locke’s Philosophy Summary Theorist of post-Cartesian science based on empiricism, John Locke is also the promoter of a political philosophy based on the concept of natural law. It moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle) through the medieval period (Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Adam Smith, Hamilton and Madison, Kant). Offering coverage from antiquity to the present, Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts is a historically organized collection of the most significant works from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy. Cahn's Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy (OUP, 2001). Ideal for survey courses in social and political philosophy, this volume is a substantially abridged and slightly altered version of Steven M.
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