The Moral Foundations of Politics (The Institution for Social and Policy St)

302 Pages·2003·1.04 MB·English

by  Ian Shapiro

The Moral
Foundations
of Politics
The Institution for Social and
Policy Studies at Yale University
the yale isps series
The Moral
Foundations
of Politics
i a n s h a p i r o
yale university press
new haven & london
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ISBN: 0-300-07907-9
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For all the graduates of Political Science 118

. . . certainty is beautiful,
but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
Wis™awa Szymborska

Preface, xi
c o n t e n t s
Introduction, 1
chapter 1
Enlightenment Politics, 7
chapter 2
Classical Utilitarianism, 18
chapter 3
Synthesizing Rights and Utility, 37
chapter 4
Marxism, 71
chapter 5
The Social Contract, 109
chapter 6
Anti-Enlightenment Politics, 151
chapter 7
Democracy, 190
chapter 8
Democracy in the Mature
Enlightenment, 224
Notes, 231
Index, 267