Major Thinkers in Welfare: Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781447305842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Victor George

Opis

An examination of the views of key theorists from ancient times to the end of the 19th century on a range of welfare issues, including wealth, poverty and inequality, slavery, gender issues and the family, and child rearing and education.

Spis treści

Introduction; Classical Athens: Plato and Aristotle; The Graeco-Roman world: Epicurus, Zeno, Cicero, Seneca and Aurelius; Early Christianity: St Augustine, St Francis of Assisi and St Aquinas; The Renaissance: Desidarius Erasmus and Thomas More; The Reformation: Martin Luther and Jean Calvin; Absolutism: Thomas Hobbes; Liberalism: John Locke; Early feminism: Mary Astell, Sophia, and Mary Wollstonecraft; A welfare society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; The market, laissez-faire and welfare: Adam Smith; Democracy and welfare: Thomas Paine; Classical Marxism and welfare: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels; Positive freedom and state welfare: T.H. Green.