Analytical Political Philosophy

From Discourse, Edification

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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The analytic movement has long been the dominant philosophical tradition in English-speaking countries. In Analytical Political Philosophy: From Discourse, Edification, distinguished Canadian philosopher David Braybrooke explores this movement by bringing together some of his earlier free-standing studies of the concepts of needs, rights, and rules. He combines the results with an analytical account of how to deal with consequences and thus, arrives at a program for public policy, comparable in generality at least and in trenchancy to the programs offered by Rawls, Nozick, and Gauthier.Braybrooke illustrates how his program can deal robustly with the worst evils of recent politics, which on point after point defy and reverse what the program calls for. An essay that relates the program to utilitarianism and natural law theory brings to an end, not only the present book, but the series of books, all published by University of Toronto Press, beginning with Moral Objectives, Rules, and the Forms of Social Change (1998), and continuing with Natural Law Modernized (2001) and Utilitarianism: Restorations; Repairs; Renovations (2004). The four books, which embrace all the main themes of Braybrooke's life-work, form a mutually reinforcing whole that invites being called the author's Summa Philosophica.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-06-10
Mått162 x 236 x 27 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieToronto Studies in Philosophy
Antal sidor277
Upplaga6002
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9780802038678
UtmärkelserWinner of Outstanding Academic Titles - Choice Magazine, Association of College and Research Libraries 2007 (United States)

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IntroductionPart One: Free-Standing Studies of Political Terms Section A: Needs The Concept of Needs, with a Heart-Warming Offer of Aid to UtilitarianismWhere Does the Moral Force of Needs Reside, and When? Section B: Rights The Analysis of RightsOur Natural Bodies, Our Social RightsSection C: Rules The Representation of Rules in Logic and Their DefinitionPart Two: Aggregating the Free-Standing Studies (The Keystone Chapter) Aggregating in a Distinctive Grand Program the Free-Standing Studies and an Account of the Serial Evaluation of ConsequencesPart Three: Analytical Political Philosophy Deals with Evil Through the Free-Standing Studies and Their Aggregation in a Grand Program, Analytical Political Philosophy Can Deal with EvilPart Four: Three Famous Grand Programs in Analytical Political Philosophy, with Comparisons Utilitarianism with a Difference: Rawls’s Position in EthicsSidgwick’s Critique of NozickSocial Contract Theory’s Fanciest Flight (with Gauthier)Comparisons of the Other Grand Programs, Especially Rawls’s, with the Needs-Focused Combination ProgramPart Five: An Epilogue to the Book and to the Four-Book Series That It Brings to an End: Two Older Grand Programs The Relation of Utilitarianism to Natural Law Theorynotes index

"'This volume completes an important publishing venture - bringing together, in a set of related books, an overarching normative theory for modern politics by a distinguished political theorist, David Braybrooke. One of the most important theorists of the past 50 years, Braybrooke has addressed an enormous range of fundamental issues over the course of his career including (among others) democratic theory, the philosophy of social science, the analysis of political decision-making, and the normative role of "human needs" in evaluating policies and institutions. This volume not only includes many of Braybrooke's papers, it also presents his "grand program," and offers a defense of analytic political philosophy.' - Donald Moon, Dean of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs, Department of Government, Wesleyan University"