Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Whom a prime minister or president will not shake hands with is still more noticed than with whom they will. This book examines the accounts of how enmity functions in the cultivation of identity, how essential it is, and what the consequences are for the contemporary world.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good claims that contemporary theory and practice have much to gain from engaging Aquinas's normative concept of the common good and his way of reconciling religion, philosophy, and politics. Examining the relationship between personal and common goods, and the relation of virtue and law […]
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The central question in political philosophy is whether political states have the right to coerce their constituents and whether citizens have a moral duty to obey the commands of their state. Christopher Heath Wellman and A. John Simmons defend opposing answers to this question. Wellman bases his argument on samaritan obligations to […]
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather […]
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Publisher: Belknap Press
Though the Revised Edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
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Publisher: Imprint Academic
The main feature of Oakeshott's vision of modernity is seen here as radical plurality resulting from 'fragmentation' of experience and society. On the level of experience, modernity denies the existence of the hierarchical medieval scheme and argues that there exist independent ways of understanding our world, such as science and history, which cannot […]
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Augustinian Imperative is an archaeological investigation into the intellectual foundation of liberal societies. Drawing support from Nietzsche and Foucault, Connolly argues that the Imperative of Augustine contains unethical implications.
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