Natural rights individualism and progressivism in American political philosophy /
نام عام مواد
[Book]
نام نخستين پديدآور
edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
New York :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Cambridge University Press,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2012.
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
xiii, 373 pages ;
ابعاد
23 cm.
فروست
عنوان فروست
Social philosophy and policy ;
مشخصه جلد
292
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
"The essays of this book have also been published without introduction and index, in the semiannual journal Social philosophy & policy, volume 29, number 2"--Title page verso.
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"In 1776, the American Declaration of Independence appealed to "the Laws of nature and of Nature's God" and affirmed "these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness ..." In 1935, John Dewey, professor of philosophy at Columbia University, declared, "Natural rights and natural liberties exist only in the kingdom of mythological social zoology." These opposing pronouncements on natural rights represent two separate and antithetical American political traditions: natural rights individualism, the original Lockean tradition of the Founding; and Progressivism, the collectivist reaction to individualism which arose initially in the newly established universities in the decades following the Civil War"--