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Political Philosophy: Classic and Contemporary Readings

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Louis P. Pojman

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2001

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Preface General Introduction Chapter I. Modern Classics The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes Second Treatise of Government: John Locke The Social Jean-Jacques Rousseau Of the Origin of and Of the Original Contract: David Hume Reflections on the Revolution in France: Edmund Burke A Vindication of the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx and Friederich Engels Critique of the Gotha Program: Karl Marx On Liberty: John Stuart Mill Chapter II. Justification of the State and Political Obligation: Why Should I Obey the Law? In Defense of Anarchism: Robert Paul Wolff Political Obligation and Consent: Harry Beran Legal Obligation and the Duty of Fair Play: John Rawls The Idea of a Legitimate State: David Copp Is There a Prima Facie Obligation to Obey the Law?: M.B.E. Smith Chapter III. Liberty: The Limits of the State and State Paternalism Two Concepts of Liberty: Isaiah Berlin Liberty and the Grounds for Coercion: Joel Feinberg Paternalism: Gerald Dworkin Liberty, Equality, and Merit: F.A. Hayek Welfare Libertarianism: James Sterba A Critique of Sterba's Defense of the Welfare State: Jan Narveson There's No Such Thing As Free Speech and It's a Good Thing Too: Stanley Fish If You're Paying, I'll Have Top Sirloin: Russell Roberts Chapter IV. Theories of Justice Justice as Convention: David Hume A Libertarian Theory of Justice: Robert Nozick Justice as Fairness: John Rawls Justice: A Funeral Oration: Wallace Matson Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions: Alasdair MacIntyre Distributive Justice: Nicholas Rescher Chapter V. State Neutrality versus Perfectionism: Should the State Make People Moral? The Enforcement of Morals: Patrick Devlin Immorality and Treason: H.L.A. Hart The Central Tradition: Classical Perfectionism: Robert George Liberalism and Neutrality: Ronald Dworkin Liberalism and the Neutral State: William Galston Chapter VI. Equality: Its Nature and Value Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Justice and Equality: Gregory Vlastos Equality As a Moral Ideal: Harry Frankfurt Why the Emperor Has No Clothes: A Critique of Contemporary Egalitarianism: Louis P. Pojman Liberty versus Equal Opportunity: James Fishkin A Liberal Defense of Equality of Opportunity: William Galston The Case for Affirmative Action: Albert Mosley The Case Against Affirmative Action: Louis P. Pojman Diversity: George Sher Is Inheritance Immoral?: Sterling Harwood Chapter VII. Rights The Nature and Value of Rights: Joel Feinberg The Epistemology of Human Rights: Alan Gewirth A Critique of Gewirth's Argument and the Notion of Rights: Alasdair MacIntyre Wrong Rights: Elizabeth Wolgast Are There Any Natural Rights?: H.L.A. Hart Universal Declaration of Human Rights: United Nations Chapter VIII. National Sovereignty, Patriotism, and International Government Against the Insane Superstition of Patriotism: Leo Tolstoy Is Patriotism a Virtue?: Alasdair MacIntyre The Problem of World Government: Jacques Maritain National Self-Determination: Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz International Society from a Cosmopolitan Perspective: Brian Barry Secession and Nationalism: Alan Buchanan Can Terrorism Be Justified?: Andrew Valls Bibliography

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