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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Part, 1 Public Reason in Social Contract Theory -- chapter Introduction / Piers Norris Turner Gerald Gaus -- chapter 1 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- Leviathan (1651) 1 -- chapter Public Reason in Hobbes / S. A. Lloyd -- chapter John Locke (1632-1704) -- Second Treatise of Government (1690) 1 -- chapter A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) 1 -- chapter Locke's Liberal Theory of Public Reason / Gerald Gaus -- chapter 3 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) -- A Discourse on Political Economy (1755) 1 -- chapter The Social Contract (1762) -- chapter Rousseau on Public Reason / Christopher Bertram -- chapter 4 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- The Science of Right (1796) 1 -- chapter The Principles of Political Right Considered in Connection with the Relation of Theory to Practice in the Right of the State (1793) 1 -- chapter Perpetual Peace (1795) 1 -- chapter What is Enlightenment? (1784) 1 -- chapter Kant on Public Reason / Oliver Sensen -- part, 2 Public Reason in Broader Historical Context -- chapter 5 Hume's Theory of Public Reason 1 / Geoffrey Sayre-McCord -- chapter 6 The Centrality of Public Reason in Hegel's Moral Philosophy / Kenneth R. Westphal -- chapter 7 Jeremy Bentham: Theorist of Publicity / Gerald J. Postema -- chapter 8 Social Morality in Mill / Piers Norris Turner |
| Summary |
"When people of good faith and sound mind disagree deeply about moral, religious, and other philosophical matters, how can we justify political institutions to all of them? The idea of public reason--of a shared public standard, despite disagreement--arose in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the work of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. At a time when John Rawls' influential theory of public reason has come under fire but its core idea remains attractive to many, it is important not to lose sight of earlier philosophers' answers to the problem of private conflict through public reason. The distinctive selections from the great social contract theorists in this volume emphasize the pervasive theme of intractable disagreement and the need for public justification. New essays by leading scholars then put the historical work in context and provide a focus of debate and discussion. They also explore how the search for public reason has informed a wider body of modern political theory--in the work of Hume, Hegel, Bentham, and Mill--sometimes in surprising ways. The idea of public reason is revealed as an overarching theme in modern political philosophy--one very much needed today."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 29, 2017) |
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Social contract.
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Reason.
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Political ethics.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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reason.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Political ethics
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Reason
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Social contract
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gaus, Gerald F., author.
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| ISBN |
9781315110868 |
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1315110865 |
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9781351617321 |
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135161732X |
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