The moral foundations of politics
Editorial YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780300079074
- ISBN10 0300079079
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 289
- Año de Edición 2003
- Encuadernación Tela
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Filosofía Politica Y Del DerechoThe moral foundations of politics
Editorial YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
Shapiro discusses the different answers that have been proposed by the major political theorists in the utilitarian, Marxist, and social contract traditions over the past four centuries. Showing how these political philosophies have all been decisively shaped by the core values of the Enlightenment, he demonstrates that each one contains useful insights that survive their failures as comprehensive doctrines and that should inform our thinking about political legitimacy. Shapiro then turns to the democratic tradition. Exploring the main arguments for and against democracy from Plato's time until our own, he argues that democracy offers the best resources for realizing the Enlightenment's promise and managing its internal tensions. As such, democracy supplies the most attractive available basis for political legitimacy.
Author Biography: Ian Shapiro is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and chairman of the department of political science at Yale University.
Also available by Ian Shapiro: Democratic Justice; Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory