Political Fraternity: Democracy beyond Freedom and Equality

ISBN-13: 9781138653795 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Angel Puyol

Opis

Fraternity is a feeling, and a moral quality, but fraternity is also a political concept. The French Revolution proclaimed an ethical and political ideal with its three principles: liberty, equality and fraternity. Since then, western political philosophy has got to great lengths to analyze the liberty and equality, but has ignored, and even disdained, the third part of the revolutionary triad: fraternity. Forgetting or underestimating fraternity as a political category is unjustifiable. Political fraternity can help us to overcome some of the main problems with liberal egalitarianism and theories of liberty in current political theory, and it contributes to a better understanding of the real significance of justice and democracy. Moreover, political fraternity reveals the keys to politics in the global world. In this book, Angel Puyol examines the theoretical and normative challenges of the political idea of fraternity, its history and meanings, its role in current political philosophy, and its relation to justice and democracy in modern day politics.

Spis treści

Acknowledgement  Introduction  1. A very short history of political fraternity  2. What is political fraternity  3. Some current criticisms to political fraternity  4. Fraternal justice  5. Fraternal democracy  6. Global fraternity  Index

O autorze

Angel Puyol is Professor of Political Philosophy at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.