Putting Ideas to Work: A Practical Introduction to Political ThoughtIn this new text, Mark Mattern offers a unique alternative to the traditional approaches to the study and teaching of political philosophy. Rather than approaching it solely as a world of abstractions, Putting Ideas to Work emphasizes its practical task. Political ideas drawn from historical and analytical political philosophy are used to help rethink current public problems and imagine potential solutions to them. |
Contents
RADICAL INDIVIDUALISM AND THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS | 21 |
PUBLIC PROBLEMS Resource Depletion | 23 |
MORE GOVERNMENT COERCION? | 34 |
ROOTS OF RADICAL INDIVIDUALISM | 38 |
QUESTIONS PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES | 49 |
DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY | 55 |
RECOGNIZING INTERDEPENDENCE CHOOSING SOLIDARITY | 59 |
SELFINTEREST RIGHTLY UNDERSTOOD | 63 |
NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE | 217 |
JUSTICE AND CARE | 230 |
JUSTICE PROPERTY AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT | 235 |
SATISFACTION OF BASIC HUMAN NEEDS | 238 |
JUSTICE AND SELFDETERMINATION | 252 |
QUESTIONS PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES | 253 |
DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM | 257 |
AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE | 259 |
CIVIC VIRTUE | 64 |
DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY | 70 |
COMMUNITARIANISM | 73 |
COMMUNITY AND DIVERSITY | 77 |
QUESTIONS PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES | 81 |
FREEDOM AND EQUALITY | 85 |
RADICAL INEQUALITY AND ITS ROOTS | 87 |
PUBLIC PROBLEMS | 90 |
INTELLECTUAL DEFENSES OF INEQUALITY | 113 |
NEGATIVE FREEDOM AND ITS LINKAGE TO PROPERTY | 117 |
PRACTICAL TRADEOFFS BETWEEN FREEDOM AND EQUALITY | 122 |
QUESTIONS PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES | 126 |
MORE FREEDOM AND EQUALITY? | 131 |
DIFFERENT KINDS OF FREEDOM | 144 |
FREEDOM REQUIRES RESTRAINT | 149 |
EQUALITY INCREASES POSITIVE FREEDOM | 152 |
QUESTIONS PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES | 160 |
JUSTICE AND POLITICAL ORDER | 165 |
THRASYMACHUS WAS RIGHT | 167 |
PUBLIC PROBLEMS | 170 |
POWER AND INTEREST | 192 |
YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU GET | 200 |
INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION | 208 |
QUESTIONS PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES | 212 |
PUBLIC PROBLEMS | 262 |
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? | 280 |
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY | 290 |
PARTICIPATORY AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY COMPARED | 297 |
QUESTIONS PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES | 301 |
DEMOCRACY AS A WAY OF LIFE | 307 |
HUMANIST ECONOMICS | 312 |
AN ECONOMY OF SUFFICIENCY | 321 |
A DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY | 325 |
QUESTIONS PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES | 337 |
POWER AND CITIZENSHIP | 341 |
POWER AND THE DISAPPEARING CITIZEN | 343 |
PUBLIC PROBLEMS | 348 |
POWER AND THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF CITIZENSHIP | 366 |
QUESTIONS PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES | 373 |
POWER AND THE REVIVAL OF CITIZENSHIP | 377 |
EDUCATION FOR CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS | 380 |
DEMOCRATIC CULTURE | 386 |
POWER AND COLLECTIVE ACTION | 389 |
QUESTIONS PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES | 415 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 419 |
INDEX | 437 |
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