Political thought /
edited by Michael Rosen and Jonathan Wolff ; with the assistance of Catriona McKinnon.
- xv, 442 pages ; 24 cm.
- Oxford readers .
- Oxford readers. .
Selection of extracts from political texts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Human Nature -- The State Exists By Nature / The Misery of the Natural Condition of Mankind / The State of Nature and the State of War / Fear and Peace / The Noble Savage / Man's Character is Formed For Him / Man as a Productive Being / Natural Selection / The Advantage of Morality / Mutual Aid / Women as Weaker Partners / Separate Spheres / The Likeness and Unlikeness of the Sexes / The Rights of Women / The Subjection of Women / In a Different Voice / Socialist Feminism and The Standpoint of Women / The Justification of the State -- Political Power / The State and Coercion / Creating Leviathan / Express and Tacit Consent / Natural Freedom and the Freedom of the Citizen / The Hypothetical Contract / The Irrelevance of Consent / Utility as the True Foundation / The Priority of the State over The Individual / The Principle of Fairness / Science and the People / The Conflict of Autonomy and Authority / The Duty of Obedience / The Duty of Disobedience / An Unjust Law is No Law / Civil Disobedience / Democracy and Its Difficulties -- Ruling as a Skill / The Enlightened Despot / The General Will / Freedom and Equality / The Democratic Citizen / Majority Rule / Bourgeois and Proletarian Democracy / Participatory Democracy / Rule of the People and Rule of Law / The Danger of Faction / Tyranny of the Majority / Bureaucratic Administration / Rule By Oligarchy / Legislative, Executive, and Federative Powers / The Ideal Constitution / Liberty and Rights -- The Liberty of the Ancients and the Liberty of the Moderns / Two Concepts of Liberty / In Defence of Positive Freedom / No Right to Liberty / One Simple Principle / The Consequences of Liberty / The Enforcement of Morals / The Changing Sense of Morality / The Futility of Intolerance / Free Expression and the Authority of the State / The Satanic Verses / Only Words / The Democratic Citizen / The Requirements of Citizenship / The Servility of the Moderns / The Nature of Modern Servitude / The Republican Ideal of Political Liberty / Nonsense on Stilts / The Rights of Egoistic Man / Rights as Side-Constraints / Taking Rights Seriously / In Favour of Capital Punishment / Punishment and Responsibility / Where Deterrence Theory Goes Wrong / Economic Justice -- Labour as the Basis of Property / The Earth Belongs to Nobody / Property as Expression / The Right to the Use of the Earth / Money, the Universal Whore / The True Foundation of Private Property / Property and Aggression / Reaping Without Sowing / Difficulties With Mixing Labour / The Dangers of Government Interference / Appearance and Reality / Prices as A Code / The Tyranny of Controls / Poverty as Lack of Freedom / The Grasshopper and the Ants / Reciprocity / Equality and Inequality / The Common Stock / The Impossibility of Equality / From Each According to His Abilities, To Each According to His Needs / Looking Backward / The Impossibility of Planning / Two Principles of Justice / The Entitlement Theory / Equality of Resources / Justice Between Groups -- Perpetual Peace / The Civilizing Influence of Commerce / Just and Unjust War / The Limits of Warfare / National Sentiment / Is Patriotism a Virtue? / The Message of Affirmative Action / National Self-Determination' / Justice Between Generations' / Famine, Affluence and Morality / Lifeboat Earth / Alternatives to Liberalism -- Legitimation Crisis / Liberalism in Retreat / The Artificiality of Liberalism / Eternal Society / The Transmission of Culture / On Being Conservative / Identification and Subjectivity / Tradition and the Unity of a Life / Conceptions of Community / Work in Communist Society / The Communist Manifesto / The Realm of Freedom / The Soul of Man Under Socialism / Productive Activity / Socialism and Equality of Opportunity / The Impulse Towards Justice / Power /Knowledge / The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy / Progress and Civilization -- The Effect of the Arts and Sciences / Division of Labour / Fragmentation and Aesthetic Education / Development of the Productive Forces / Our Self-Destructive Impulse / Transition to Communism / Disenchantment / The Utopian Method / The End of History / Aristotle -- Thomas Hobbes -- John Locke -- Baron de Montesquieu -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Robert Owen -- Karl Marx and FriedrichEngels -- Charles Darwin -- Charles Darwin -- Peter Kropotkin -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- John Stuart Mill -- Carol Gilligan -- Alison M Jaggar -- John Locke -- Max Weber -- Thomas Hobbes -- John Locke -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Immanuel Kant -- David Hume -- Jeremy Bentham -- G.W.F Hegel -- H.L.A. Hart -- Michael Bakunin -- Robert Paul Wolff -- Plato -- Henry David Thoreau -- Martin Luther King -- John Rawls -- Plato -- Frederick the Great -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Immanuel Kant -- John Stuart Mill -- John Rawls -- V.I. Lenin -- Carole Pateman -- Aristotle -- James Madison -- Alexis de Tocqueville -- Max Weber -- Vilfedo Pareto -- John Locke -- Baron de Montesquieu -- Benjamin Constant -- Isaiah Berlin -- Charles Taylor -- Ronald Dworkin -- John Stuart Mill -- James Fitzjames Stephen -- Partick Devlin -- H.L.A. Hart -- John Locke -- Thomas Scanlon -- Jeremy Waldron -- Catherine MacKinnon -- Pericles -- Aristotle -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- Alexis de Tocqueville -- Quentin Skinner -- Jeremy Bentham -- Karl Marx -- Robert Nozick -- Ronald Dworkin -- John Stuart Mill -- H.L.A. Hart -- Robert Nozick -- John Locke -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- G.W.F Hegel -- Herbert Spencer -- Karl Marx -- Karl Marx -- Sigmund Freud -- R.H. Tawney -- Robert Nozick -- Adam Smith -- Karl Marx -- F.A. Hayek -- Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman -- G.A. Cohen -- Aesop -- Aristotle -- Aristotle -- Gerald Winstanley -- David Hume -- Karl Marx -- Edward Bellamy -- F.A. Hayek -- John Rawls -- Robert Nozick -- Ronald Dworkin -- Immanuel Kant -- Richard Cobden -- Michael Walzer -- Thomas Nagel -- Isaiah Berlin -- Alasdair MacIntyre -- Thomas Hill -- Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz -- Brian Barry -- Peter Singer -- Onora O'Neill -- Jurgen Habermas -- Michael Walzer -- Michael Walzer -- Edmund Burke -- T.S. Eliot -- Michael Oakeshott -- Charles Taylor -- Alasdair MacIntyre -- Michael Sandel -- Karl Marx -- Karl Marx -- Karl Marx -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Mandel -- G.A. Cohen -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Michel Foucault -- Richard Rorty -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Adam Smith -- Friedrich Schiller -- Karl Marx -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Friedrich Engels -- Max Weber -- Karl Popper -- Francis Fukuyama. Chapter 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Chapter 2. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. Chapter 3. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. Chapter 4. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. Chapter 5. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. Chapter 6. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. Chapter 7. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. Chapter 8. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. 135.