Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology - Softcover

 
9781405145046: Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1405145048 ISBN 13: 9781405145046
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Edited by leading contributors to the literature, Freedom: An Anthology is the most complete anthology on social, political and economic freedom ever compiled.

  • Offers a broad guide to the vast literature on social, political and economic freedom.
  • Contains selections from the best scholarship of recent decades as well as classic writings from Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant among others.
  • General and sectional introductions help to orient the reader.
  • Compiled and edited by three important contributors to the field.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ian Carter is Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Pavia, Italy.

Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at Cambridge University; Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge; and Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy.

Hillel Steiner is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester.

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The most substantial anthology on the philosophy of freedom ever compiled, this volume is a broad guide to the vast philosophical literature on the topic of social, political, and economic freedom. The editors, themselves important contributors to the relevant debates, focus Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology on work completed over the last two decades, but also include foundational writings from historically significant philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Hegel, Bentham, Montesquieu, and Kant. Topics include negative and positive freedom; government and arbitrary power; freedom and the mind; freedom and morality; coercion; autonomy; freedom, ability, and economic inequality; and the value and measurement of freedom. Covering a wide diversity of political points of view, the range and quality of writings in this anthology make it an ideal and versatile course text.

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The most substantial anthology on the philosophy of freedom ever compiled, this volume is a broad guide to the vast philosophical literature on the topic of social, political, and economic freedom. The editors, themselves important contributors to the relevant debates, focus Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology on work completed over the last two decades, but also include foundational writings from historically significant philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Hegel, Bentham, Montesquieu, and Kant. Topics include negative and positive freedom; government and arbitrary power; freedom and the mind; freedom and morality; coercion; autonomy; freedom, ability, and economic inequality; and the value and measurement of freedom. Covering a wide diversity of political points of view, the range and quality of writings in this anthology make it an ideal and versatile course text.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1405145048
ISBN 13 
9781405145046
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
528
Herausgeber
Carter Ian, Kramer Matthew H., Steiner Hillel
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