عنوان

Classics of political and moral philosophy

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eng

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Classics of political and moral philosophy

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Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy provides in one volume the major writings from nearly 2,500 years of political and moral philosophy. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, it moves from classical thought )Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero( through medieval views )Augustine, Aquinas( to modern perspectives )Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Adam Smith, Kant(. It includes major nineteenth-century thinkers )Hegel, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche( as well as twentieth-century theorists )Rawls, Nozick, Nagel, Foucault, Habermas, Nussbaum(. Also included are numerous essays from The Federalist Papers and a variety of notable documents and addresses, among them Pericles' Funeral Oration, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and speeches by Edmund Burke, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Dewey, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The readings are substantial or complete texts, not fragments.

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"This is a fine reader for any course in ethics or political philosophy. It contains well-edited readings along with introductions by leading philosophers. Beginning students will find this a very user-friendly text, and advanced students will benefit from the breadth of readings."--Ted Vaggalis, Drury University

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"Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy" provides the major writings from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy and supplements them with relevant works of ethical theory. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, it moves from classical thought )Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero( through medieval views )Augustine, Aquinas( to modern theories )Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Hume, Kant(. It includes major nineteenth-century thinkers)Hegel, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche( as well as twentieth-century theorists )Rawls, Nozick, Nagel, Foucault, Habermas, Nussbaum(. The appendix contains numerous essays from "The Federalist" and a variety of notable documents and addresses, among them Pericles's Funeral Oration, The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and speeches by Edmund Burke, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Dewey, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The readings are substantial or complete texts, not fragments. A unique feature of this volume is that it precedes each author's writings with an introductory essay written by a leading authority, including Richard Kraut on Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Cicero; Joshua Cohen on Rousseau and Rawls; A. John Simmons on Locke; Paul Guyer on Kant; Jeremy Waldron on Bentham and Mill; Richard Schacht on Nietzsche; Thomas A. McCarthy on Foucault and Habermas, and many more. Offering unprecedented breadth of coverage, "Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy" is an ideal text for courses in political/social philosophy and moral philosophy.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York ; Oxford

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2002

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiii, 1211 p. ; 24 cm.

متن يادداشت

ISBN: 0195140915

متن يادداشت

Steven M. Cahn

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1

عنصر شناسه ای

Philosophy ، Political science

عنصر شناسه ای

، Ethics

شماره رده

عنصر شناسه اي

Cahn, Steven M.

کد نقش

AU

عنصر شناسه اي

TI