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Political concepts and political theories / Gerald F. Gaus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000Description: xiv, 288 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 081333330X
  • 9780813333304
  • 0813333318
  • 9780813333311
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01
LOC classification:
  • JA71. G28 2000
Contents:
List of Figures -- Preface -- Part 1. Conceptual Analysis and Political Theories -- 1. What Are Political Concepts? -- 1.1. Socrates's Question -- 1.2. Words, Definitions, and Things -- 1.3. Wittgenstein's Later Analysis -- 1.4. Wittgenstein and Conceptual Investigations -- 1.5. Summary -- Notes -- 2. Conceptual Disputes -- 2.1. Essentially Contested Concepts -- 2.2. Political Ideologies -- 2.3. Political Philosophy and Political Theories -- 2.4. Summary -- Notes -- 3. Political Theories: Conceptual Structures and Enduring Types -- 3.1. Liberalism, Socialism, and Conservatism -- 3.2. Rationalism/Antirationalism -- 3.3. Theories of Human Nature -- 3.4. Individualism/Collectivism -- 3.5. Summary -- Notes -- Part 2. Political Concepts -- 4. Negative and Positive Liberty -- 4.1. Negative Liberty: Some Ordinary Language Considerations -- 4.2. Positive Freedom -- 4.3. Two Concepts of Liberty -- 4.4. Questioning the Positive/Negative Distinction -- 4.5. Summary -- Notes -- 5. Liberty and Power -- 5.1. Positive Freedom as Power to Act -- 5.2. Power and Freedom -- 5.3. Freedom, Power, and Property -- 5.4. Freedom, Power, and the Law -- 5.5. Summary -- Notes -- 6. Equality -- 6.1. Equality and the Grounds for Equal Treatment -- 6.2. Why Equality? External Arguments for the Importance of Equality -- 6.3. Why Equality? Arguments from Fundamental Human Equality -- 6.4. Equality of What? -- 6.5. Summary -- Notes -- 7. Equality and Liberty in Political Theories -- 7.1. Do Liberty and Equality Conflict? -- 7.2. Classical Liberalism: Liberty and Basic Equality -- 7.3. Revisionist Liberalisms -- 7.4. A Socialist Reconciliation Proposal -- 7.5. The Conservative Critique of Equality -- 7.6. Summary -- Notes -- 8. Justice and Liberalism -- 8.1. The Elements of Justice -- 8.2. Classical Liberalism: Rules for Equally Free People -- 8.3. Monistic Revisionist Liberalism: Social Justice and Contributions to the Common Good -- 8.4. Pluralistic Revisionist Liberalism: A Revised Social Contract Among Free and Equal People -- 8.5. Summary -- Notes -- 9. Justice, Society, and Community -- 9.1. Marx on Societies and Their Justice -- 9.2. Socialism and the Democratic Community -- 9.3. Three Conservative Approaches to Justice -- 9.4. Summary -- Notes -- 10. Political Authority -- 10.1. Conservatism and Political Authority -- 10.2. On Being "In Authority" -- 10.3. Liberal Political Authority -- 10.4. Democratic Authority and the Management of Collective Affairs -- 10.5. Summary -- Notes -- Concluding Remarks: From Political Concepts to Political Theories -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Figures -- Preface -- Part 1. Conceptual Analysis and Political Theories -- 1. What Are Political Concepts? -- 1.1. Socrates's Question -- 1.2. Words, Definitions, and Things -- 1.3. Wittgenstein's Later Analysis -- 1.4. Wittgenstein and Conceptual Investigations -- 1.5. Summary -- Notes -- 2. Conceptual Disputes -- 2.1. Essentially Contested Concepts -- 2.2. Political Ideologies -- 2.3. Political Philosophy and Political Theories -- 2.4. Summary -- Notes -- 3. Political Theories: Conceptual Structures and Enduring Types -- 3.1. Liberalism, Socialism, and Conservatism -- 3.2. Rationalism/Antirationalism -- 3.3. Theories of Human Nature -- 3.4. Individualism/Collectivism -- 3.5. Summary -- Notes -- Part 2. Political Concepts -- 4. Negative and Positive Liberty -- 4.1. Negative Liberty: Some Ordinary Language Considerations -- 4.2. Positive Freedom -- 4.3. Two Concepts of Liberty -- 4.4. Questioning the Positive/Negative Distinction -- 4.5. Summary -- Notes -- 5. Liberty and Power -- 5.1. Positive Freedom as Power to Act -- 5.2. Power and Freedom -- 5.3. Freedom, Power, and Property -- 5.4. Freedom, Power, and the Law -- 5.5. Summary -- Notes -- 6. Equality -- 6.1. Equality and the Grounds for Equal Treatment -- 6.2. Why Equality? External Arguments for the Importance of Equality -- 6.3. Why Equality? Arguments from Fundamental Human Equality -- 6.4. Equality of What? -- 6.5. Summary -- Notes -- 7. Equality and Liberty in Political Theories -- 7.1. Do Liberty and Equality Conflict? -- 7.2. Classical Liberalism: Liberty and Basic Equality -- 7.3. Revisionist Liberalisms -- 7.4. A Socialist Reconciliation Proposal -- 7.5. The Conservative Critique of Equality -- 7.6. Summary -- Notes -- 8. Justice and Liberalism -- 8.1. The Elements of Justice -- 8.2. Classical Liberalism: Rules for Equally Free People -- 8.3. Monistic Revisionist Liberalism: Social Justice and Contributions to the Common Good -- 8.4. Pluralistic Revisionist Liberalism: A Revised Social Contract Among Free and Equal People -- 8.5. Summary -- Notes -- 9. Justice, Society, and Community -- 9.1. Marx on Societies and Their Justice -- 9.2. Socialism and the Democratic Community -- 9.3. Three Conservative Approaches to Justice -- 9.4. Summary -- Notes -- 10. Political Authority -- 10.1. Conservatism and Political Authority -- 10.2. On Being "In Authority" -- 10.3. Liberal Political Authority -- 10.4. Democratic Authority and the Management of Collective Affairs -- 10.5. Summary -- Notes -- Concluding Remarks: From Political Concepts to Political Theories -- Index.

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