Public Reason in Political Philosophy: Classic Sources and Contemporary Commentaries

ISBN-13: 9780367867911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 404 str.

Piers Norris Turner; Gerald Gaus

Opis

This volume argues that modern political theory can be fruitfully organized around the evolution of the idea of public reason.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART 1: PUBLIC REASON IN SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY

Hobbes      from Leviathan

                  Critical Essay: Sharon A. Lloyd, Public Reason in Hobbes

Locke        from Second Treatise of Government,

                  A Letter Concerning Toleration　

                 Critical Essay: Gerald F. Gaus, Locke’s Liberal Theory of Public Reason

Rousseau  from A Discourse on Political Economy,                

                  The Social Contract 　

                 Critical Essay: Christopher Bertram, Rousseau on Public Reason　

Kant          from The Science of Right,

                 The Principles of Political Right Considered in Common with the Relation of Theory to Practice in the Right of the State,

                 Perpetual Peace,

                What is Enlightenment?　

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O autorze

Piers Norris Turner is Associate Professor of Philosophy and (by courtesy) Political Science at Ohio State University. A co-editor of Karl Popper, After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings (2008), his articles on John Stuart Mill’s moral and political philosophy have appeared in a number of leading journals, including Ethics and the Journal of the History of Philosophy.

Gerald Gaus is the James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. Among his books are The Order of Public Reason (2011), On Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2008), Justificatory Liberalism (1996), and Value and Justification (1990). His most recent book is The Tyranny of the Ideal (2016). He was a founding editor of the journal Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and, with Fred D’Agostino, edited The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy (2013).