Commentary On The Constitution From Plato To Rousseau

Author : Joshua B. Stein
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073916760X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commentary on the Constitution from Plato to Rousseau written by Joshua B. Stein and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age where scholars, lawyers, judges and just plain folk debate the original intent of the U.S. Constitution, Commentary on the Constitution from Plato to Rousseau demonstrates that the issues confronting the founders—as well as issues of understanding what the founders intended—can be traced back to antiquity. Stein looks at 14 historical figures who—by their words and/or deeds—set the stage for political thought before the constitution was written. All the subjects of this book deal as best they can with questions of the relationship between executive and other branches of government; all deal with the role of religion in government; all deal with how much (if any) democracy should be allowed in determining fundamental law and day-to-day governance; all engaged in the thought experiment of asking what life was like before government, and therefore why government was instituted; all deal with the relationship of central authority and provincial (states') rights; all seek to avoid tyranny. Commentary on the Constitution from Plato to Rousseau is not about what the founders took from previous thinkers and political figures; it is a book that allows the reader to consider the U.S. Constitution while learning about people whose genius has transcended time, from Plato to Rousseau.

Author : Joshua B. Stein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commentary on the Constitution from Plato to Rousseau written by Joshua B. Stein and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460406427
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus. Each text has been newly translated and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors’ introduction offers students diverse points of entry into some of the distinctive possibilities and challenges of each of these fundamental texts, as well as an introduction to Rousseau’s life and historical situation. The volume also includes annotated appendices that help students to explore the origins and influences of Rousseau’s work, including excerpts from Hobbes, Pascal, Descartes, Mandeville, Diderot, Voltaire, Madame de Staël, Benjamin Constant, Joseph de Maistre, Kant, Hegel, and Engels.

Author : Peter N. Riesenberg
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807844595
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship in the Western Tradition written by Peter N. Riesenberg and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for both general readers and students, Peter Riesenberg's instructive book surveys Western ideas of citizenship from Greek antiquity to the French Revolution. It demonstrates the persistence of important civic ideals and institutions over a perio

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226921883
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “fresh new rendition of Rousseau’s major political writings is a boon for scholars and students alike”—with a critical introduction by the translator (Richard Boyd, Georgetown University). Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been called all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject of such intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees that Rousseau is among the most important political thinkers in history. Renowned Rousseau scholar John T. Scott highlights his enduring influence with this superb new edition of his major political writings. This volume includes authoritative and lucid new translations of the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, the Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men, and On the Social Contract. The two Discourses show Rousseau developing his well-known conception of the natural goodness of man and the problems posed by life in society. With the Social Contract, Rousseau became the first major thinker to argue that democracy is the only legitimate form of political organization. Scott’s extensive introduction enhances our understanding of these foundational writings, providing background information, social and historical context, and guidance for interpreting the works. Throughout, translation and editorial notes clarify ideas and terms that might not be immediately familiar to most readers.

Author : Adriel M. Trott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107036259
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle on the Nature of Community written by Adriel M. Trott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adriel M. Trott reads Aristotle's Politics through the internal cause definition of nature to develop an active and inclusive account of politics.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : J M Dent & Sons Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780525026600
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Contract, and Discourses written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by J M Dent & Sons Limited. This book was released on 1950 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an old university friend and fellow archeologist's murdered, forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.

Author : Murray Greensmith Forsyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Classics written by Murray Greensmith Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lively and accessible introduction to some of the greatest works of political thought. Written by a team of specialist contributors, there are chapters on Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Augustine's City of God, Machiavelli's Discourses and The Prince, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Locke's Second Treatise on Government. Concentrating on the ideas contained in the texts themselves, the guide also helps readers understand why these classics remain indispensable today.

Author : Heinrich Meier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022607403X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life written by Heinrich Meier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the American Edition -- Note on Citations -- Translator's Note and Acknowledgments -- First Book -- I. The Philosopher among Nonphilosophers -- II. Faith -- III. Nature -- IV. Beisichselbstsein -- V. Politics -- VI. Love -- VII. Self-Knowledge -- Second Book -- Rousseau and the Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar -- Name Index

Author : Jean Jacques Rousseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The social contract; or, Principles of political right, tr. with intr. and notes by H.J. Tozer written by Jean Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: