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.