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Politics and Philosophy – The Necessity and Limitations or Rational Argument

Autor SS Kleinberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iul 1991
Are political disputes collisions between the conflicting desires of different people or are they capable of rational resolution? Do our political beliefs represent views about what is convenient for ourselves or our convictions about what is morally right? Stanley Kleinberg points out that political argument is conducted on the assumption that political questions can be rationally resolved and our political beliefs can be morally justified.

But is this assumption correct? This book proceeds from discussing competing definitions of politics and the nature of ideology to an examination of the different approaches to politics inherent in economic liberalism, welfare liberalism, traditional conservatism, Marxism and Western constitutional socialism. In examining the arguments of liberals, conservatives and socialists, the author does not focus exclusively on the work of political theorists such as Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and Karl Marx, but also draws attention to party manifestos and the words of practising politicians.
Stanley Kleinberg's conclusions provide an insight not only into controversies of political theory but also into the nature of rational argument, providing a much needed and clear introduction to two important, and independent, disciplines.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631160755
ISBN-10: 0631160752
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

undergraduates taking political philosophy courses

Notă biografică

Stanley Kleinberg is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Stirling. He took his first degree in philosophy, his second in politics and is an experienced teacher of both subjects.

Descriere

Explores the nature of political beliefs, asking whether they are, by and large, conformable to rational, ethical systems of thought, or merely sublimated self-interest. Various ideologies are examined, and the work of eminent political thinkers and party manifestos are considered.