Philosophical essays
By: Teodros Kiros
Publisher: Red Sea Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the Democracy Project; title: From oligarchy to democracy; title: From democracy to tyranny; title: Revisiting classical democracy through Aristotle's eyes; title: From the state of nature to society: the commonwealth; title: John Locke and modern liberal democracy; title: John Locke and the state of nature; title: John Locke on government; title: Jean Jacques Rousseau on the social contract; title: The general will and the social contract; title: The origin of inequalities; title: David Hume on the social contract; title: James Madison and the Federalist; title: Democracy as checks and balances; title: Immanuel Kant on republicanism; title: Hegel on the state: an introduction; title: Hegel on the ethical state and the idea of law; title: Marx on socialist democracy; title: Marx on the state and pure democracy; title: Alexis de Tocqueville: democracy in America; title: Democratic values; title: John Rawls and contemporary liberal democracy; title: Participatory democracy; title: Passion for justice and freedom; title: Radical democracy: vision and morality.