Social Ends And Political Means Routledge Revivals

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317515838
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Ends and Political Means (Routledge Revivals) written by Ted Honderich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading British, American and European philosophers contribute to this collection of essays, first published in 1976, in political philosophy. They are essays which have to do in different ways with better societies than the ones we have, and with ways of getting them. They exemplify what can fairly be called real political philosophy. Its past makers have been Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Mill and Marx, and it consists in advocacy of certain social ends and of certain means, rather than uncommitted inquiry or comment. The advocacy is of a kind, of course, which depends on analysis and argument. The book will be of interest not only to those who are primarily concerned with philosophy, but students of politics as well.

Author : Ted Honderich
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131751582X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Ends and Political Means (Routledge Revivals) written by Ted Honderich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading British, American and European philosophers contribute to this collection of essays, first published in 1976, in political philosophy. They are essays which have to do in different ways with better societies than the ones we have, and with ways of getting them. They exemplify what can fairly be called real political philosophy. Its past makers have been Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Mill and Marx, and it consists in advocacy of certain social ends and of certain means, rather than uncommitted inquiry or comment. The advocacy is of a kind, of course, which depends on analysis and argument. The book will be of interest not only to those who are primarily concerned with philosophy, but students of politics as well.

Author : Raymond Plant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135195668
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals) written by Raymond Plant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration. Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of ‘community’.

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474469302
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Political Means and Social Ends written by Ted Honderich and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moral and political arguments, judgements and commitments of Britain's outstanding radical philosopher.What society ought we to have, and what can we do to try to get it? This book sets out to answer these questions beginning with a new essay on the foundation of a liberalism of means and ends, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. It goes on to consider the culmination of liberal thinking in John Rawls' A Theory of Justice. It argues that liberalism is good intentions not carried forward into rational commitment. Conservatism, in its past and its present guises, is also made clear in its reality. So too is the leftism of the past, including G. A. Cohen's attempt to save Karl Marx's theory of history. Both are discarded. The book argues for another political and social morality - the generosity and fellow-feeling of the Principle of Humanity. It is a consequentialist rather than a mysterious morality, and its essential idea is that we should take rational steps to rescue the badly-off from lives of wretchedness and other distress. This is the commitment that led to Ted Honderich's human and passionate response to 9/11, After the Terror - the most controversial book of serious philosophy published in Britain since A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic in 1936. A further chapter considers hierarchic democracy - the democracy we have as distinct from the democracy we think we have - and the necessity of mass civil disobedience. The book ends with an essay that adds to the thinking of After the Terror, particularly on the moral right of the Palestinians to their resistance.

Author : Raymond Plant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135195676
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals) written by Raymond Plant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration. Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of ‘community’.

Author : A. R. M. Murray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136971149
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) written by A. R. M. Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1953, this seminal introduction to political philosophy is intended for both the student of political theory and for the general reader. After an introduction which explains the nature and purpose of philosophy, Dr Murray provides a critical examination of the principle theories advanced by political philosophers from Plato to Marx, paying special attention to contemporary issues. The book also makes an attempt to define the essential issues of philosophical significance in contemporary politics, with special reference to the conflict between political authority and individual rights, and to show how the different moral assumptions underlying authoritarian and democratic systems of government are ultimately based upon different theories of logic.

Author : Francis Castles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135195609
Total Pages : 122 pages
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Download or read book Politics and Social Insight (Routledge Revivals) written by Francis Castles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971, this is a clear, straightforward introductory discussion of the importance of sociological knowledge, and particularly sociological theory, for the understanding of political life. The topics covered include sociology and the discipline of politics, the elementary forms of political life, and the relationship between theory, evidence and insight. Francis Castles also looks at functionalism and the analysis of conflict as sociological meta-theories, and at the idea of anomie and the theory of mass society. The book should be of prime interest to students of politics and to students of the social sciences in general.

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131757026X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence for Equality (Routledge Revivals) written by Ted Honderich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence for Equality, first published in 1989, questions the morality of political violence and challenges the presuppositions, inconsistencies and prejudices of liberal-democratic thinking. This book should be of interest to teachers and students of philosophy and politics.

Author : L. T. Hobhouse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135228213
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Social Justice (Routledge Revivals) written by L. T. Hobhouse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1922, this title written by L. T. Hobhouse, British politician and one of the leading theorists of Social Liberalism, is a seminal work concerning the social application of ethical principles for the common good. The object of the book is to show that social and political institutions are not ends in themselves. Hobhouse argues that the social ideal is to be sought not in the faultless unchanging system of an institutional Utopia, but in the love of a spiritual life with its unfailing system of harmonious growth unconfined.