Theories of Democracy provides a critical assessment of the main approaches to democracy. Frank Cunningham explains and summarizes the main tenets of theories of democracy, including liberal, participatory and deliberative democracy, as well as the problems that can beset democracy from majority tyranny and ineffective governments to problems in decision-making procedures and others. The book offers treatments of the main themes in democratic theory including freedom and equality, rights, collective decision-making, legitimacy and justice and covers the thought of thinkers from Rousseau and...
Theories of Democracy provides a critical assessment of the main approaches to democracy. Frank Cunningham explains and summarizes the main tenets of ...
We take rights to be fundamental to everyday life. Rights are also controversial and hotly debated both in theory and practice. Where do rights come from? Are they invented or discovered? What sort of rights are there and who is entitled to them? In this comprehensive introduction, Tom Campbell introduces and critically examines the key philosophical debates about rights. The first part of the book covers historical and contemporary theories of rights, including the origin and variety of rights and standard justifications of them. He considers challenges to rights from philosophers...
We take rights to be fundamental to everyday life. Rights are also controversial and hotly debated both in theory and practice. Where do rights com...
We take rights to be fundamental to everyday life. Rights are also controversial and hotly debated both in theory and practice. Where do rights come from? Are they invented or discovered? What sort of rights are there and who is entitled to them? In this comprehensive introduction, Tom Campbell introduces and critically examines the key philosophical debates about rights.
The first part of the book covers historical and contemporary theories of rights, including the origin and variety of rights and standard justifications of them. He considers challenges to rights from philosophers...
We take rights to be fundamental to everyday life. Rights are also controversial and hotly debated both in theory and practice. Where do rights com...
Why should we be tolerant? What does it mean to "live and let live"? What ought to be tolerated and what not? "Toleration: A Critical Introduction" is a comprehensive and accessible philosophical introduction to toleration. The first part of the book clearly and coherently introduces and assesses the major theoretical accounts of toleration, examining toleration in light of challenges from skepticism, value pluralism and reasonableness. Catriona McKinnon also draws from those philosophers whose theories are central to toleration, from Locke and Mill to Rawls. In the second part of the...
Why should we be tolerant? What does it mean to "live and let live"? What ought to be tolerated and what not? "Toleration: A Critical Introduction...
Why should we be tolerant? What does it mean to "live and let live"? What ought to be tolerated and what not?
Toleration: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible philosophical introduction to toleration. The first part of the book clearly and coherently introduces and assesses the major theoretical accounts of toleration, examining toleration in light of challenges from skepticism, value pluralism and reasonableness. Catriona McKinnon also draws from those philosophers whose theories are central to toleration, from Locke and...
Why should we be tolerant? What does it mean to "live and let live"? What ought to be tolerated and what not?
Political obligation is concerned with the clash between the individual's claim to self-governance and the right of the state to claim their obedience. In this authoritative introduction to the topic, Dudley Knowles frames the question of political obligation in terms of the duties citizens have to the state and each other.
Political obligation is concerned with the clash between the individual's claim to self-governance and the right of the state to claim their obedience...
