Analytical political philosophy : from discourse, edification /

Braybrooke, David,

Analytical political philosophy : from discourse, edification / David Braybrooke. - xii, 320 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index.

Introduction -- Free-Standing Studies of Political Terms -- Needs -- T1 he Concept of Needs, with a Heart-Warming Offer of Aid to Utilitarianism -- Where Does the Moral Force of Needs Reside, and When? -- Rights --3 Our Natural Bodies, Our Social Rights -- Rules -- The Representation of Rules in Logic and Their Definition -- Aggregating the Free-Standing Studies -- (The Keystone Chapter) Aggregating in a Distinctive Grand Program the Free-Standing Studies and an Account of the Serial Evaluation of Consequences -- Analytical Political Philosophy Deals with Evil -- Through the Free-Standing Studies and Their Aggregation in a Grand Program, Analytical Political Philosophy Can Deal with Evil -- Three Famous Grand Programs in Analytical Political Philosophy, with Comparisons -- Utilitarianism with a Difference: Rawls's Position in Ethics -- Sidgwick's Critique of Nozick -- Social Contract Theory's Fanciest Flight (with Gauthier) -- Comparisons of the Other Grand Programs, Especially Rawls's, with the Needs-Focused Combination Program -- An Epilogue to the Book and to the Four-Book Series That It Brings to an End: Two Older Grand Programs -- The Relation of Utilitarianism to Natural Law -- Theory. Part One. Section A. 2. Section B. 4. Section C. 5. Part Two. 6. Part Three. 7. Part Four. 8. 9. 11. Part Five. 12. 13.

0802038670 9780802038678

2006491532


Political science--Philosophy.

JA71 / .B72 2006

320.01

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