Essays in Political Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780198235668 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 248 str.

R. G. Collingwood; David Boucher

Opis

This book brings together for the first time the political and related writings of R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943), the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist. Including a great deal of previously unpublished or inaccessible material, the writings place political action in the context of action as a whole and addresses substantive social and political issues, particularly Nazism and Fascism, which Collingwood recognized as a threat to European civilization.

Recenzje

Collingwood's relaxed incisiveness and moral activity are here displayed in their sharpest and most engaging form ... sympathetic and thorough study

Spis treści

Introduction; Part One: Political activity and the forms of practical reason; Editor's comments; Economics as a philosophical science; Goodness, caprice, and utility; Political action; Politics (1929); Politics (1933); Punishment and forgiveness; Punishment; Monks and morals; Duty; Part Two: Civilization and its enemies; Editor's comments; The present need of a philosophy; The rules of life; Translator's preface; Modern politics; Fascism and Nazism; The utilitarian civilization; The Prussian philosophy; The three laws of politics; Preface to The New Leviathan; Appendix one: Truth and contradiction; Appendix two: Letters to T. M. Knox from R. G. Collingwood; Index