Freedom Power And Political Morality

Author : I. Carter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333992717
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom, Power and Political Morality written by I. Carter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-03-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental political and legal concepts and their implications for the scope of morality in politics and international relations. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between empirical and normative definitions of 'freedom', 'power' and 'interests', whether governments are free to act against the national interest, and whether they can ever be morally obliged to do so.

Author : Arthur Ripstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054512
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Force and Freedom written by Arthur Ripstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant’s political philosophy. Ripstein shows that Kant’s thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitations or circumstances; indeed the requirements of justice can be articulated without recourse to views about human inclinations and vulnerabilities. Second, Kant argues for a distinctive moral principle, which restricts the legitimate use of force to the creation of a system of equal freedom. Ripstein’s description of the unity and philosophical plausibility of this dimension of Kant’s thought will be a revelation to political and legal scholars. In addition to providing a clear and coherent statement of the most misunderstood of Kant’s ideas, Ripstein also shows that Kant’s views remain conceptually powerful and morally appealing today. Ripstein defends the idea of equal freedom by examining several substantive areas of law—private rights, constitutional law, police powers, and punishment—and by demonstrating the compelling advantages of the Kantian framework over competing approaches.

Author : Joseph Raz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198248075
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Morality of Freedom written by Joseph Raz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Morality of Freedom" is the winner of the W J M Mackenzie Prize of the Political Studies Association for 1987.

Author : Lawrence Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107062969
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Is Power written by Lawrence Hamilton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel, sophisticated and realistic account of freedom as power through political representation.

Author : Lee Quinby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America written by Lee Quinby and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Michel Foucault's theories of power, this study examines issues of American individuality, ethics and freedom. Through detailed critical readings of a wide range of important American texts, the author identifies an aesthetics of liberty, an ethical tradition that presents the creation of self as an exercise of personal freedom and civic responsibility. She argues that this tradition of ethics has been and continues to be the chief means by which Americans challenge dominant modes of disciplinary power.

Author : William Paley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy written by William Paley and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George G Brenkert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135025789
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marx's Ethics of Freedom written by George G Brenkert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals Marx’s moral philosophy and analyzes its nature. The author shows that there is an underlying system of ethics which runs the length and breadth of Marx’s thought. The book begins by discussing the methodological side of Marx’s ethics showing how Marx’s criticism of conventional morality and his views on historical materialism, determinism and ideology are compatible with having an ideological system of his own. In the light of contemporary social, moral and political philosophy the insights and defects of Marx’s major ethical themes are discussed.

Author : Stein Ringen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831679
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Democracy Is For written by Stein Ringen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, he contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosing. Yet he shows that democracy's freedom is on the decline. Citizens are increasingly distrustful of political systems weighted by money, and they don't participate in political affairs as they once did. Ringen warns of the risks we face if this trend continues, and puts forth an ambitious proposal for democratic reforms. The issues that concern him are ones that should concern us all. They include education, poverty, the social and economic roles of families, the lack of democracy in our economic lives, and the need to rejuvenate municipal democracy. Along the way, Ringen proposes policy solutions aimed at restoring democracy, such as universal vouchers for education, substituting the principle of individual insurance for social-welfare pensions, and rethinking how we measure poverty in rich and poor countries. He calls for the revival of local democracy, a democratically grounded global economy, and the protection of political democracy from the transgressions of economic power. The way to protect democracy is not to cheer it, but to reform it. What Democracy Is For offers a bold defense of democratic ideals, grounded in real reforms.

Author : Ronald Dworkin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198265573
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Law written by Ronald Dworkin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dworkin's important book is a collection of essays which discuss almost all of the great constitutional issues of the last two decades, including abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, homosexuality, pornography, and free speech. Dworkin offers a consistently liberal view of the Constitution and argues that fidelity to it and to law demands that judges make moral judgments. He proposes that we all interpret the abstract language of the Constitution by reference to moral principles about political decency and justice. His 'moral reading' therefore brings political morality into the heart of constitutional law. The various chapters of this book were first published separately; now drawn together they provide the reader with a rich, full-length treatment of Dworkin's general theory of law.

Author : Alan Wolfe
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393323023
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Freedom written by Alan Wolfe and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the traditional virtues of loyalty, honesty, self- restraint, and forgiveness, Wolfe (religion and American public life, Boston College) describes the state of contemporary moral thinking in the United States. He describes the struggle for individuals to forge a moral life without guidance from strict conventions. He considers the prevalent attitudes of eight American communities: from San Francisco's Castro district to the small-town environs of Tipton, Iowa, from Lackland Air Force Base to Fall River, Massachusetts. The cover shows shows the subtitle as The search for virtue in a world of choice, while the title page (and Library of Congress) cataloguing show The impossible idea that defines the way we live now. c. Book News Inc.