Classical Individualism

Author : Tibor R. Machan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134708086

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Classical Individualism by Tibor R. Machan Pdf

In Classical Individualism, Tibor R. Machan argues that individualism is far from being dead. Machan identifies, develops and defends what he calls classical individualism - an individualism humanised by classical philosophy, rooted in Aristotle rather than Hobbes. This book does not reject the social nature of human beings, but finds that every one has a self-directed agent who is responsible for what he or she does. Machan rejects all types of collectivism, including communitarianism, ethnic solidarity, racial unity, and gender identity. The ideas expressed here have important social and political implications, and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the notion of individuality and individual responsibility.

Author : Tibor R. Machan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134708093

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Classical Individualism by Tibor R. Machan Pdf

In Classical Individualism, Tibor R. Machan argues that individualism is far from being dead. Machan identifies, develops and defends what he calls classical individualism - an individualism humanised by classical philosophy, rooted in Aristotle rather than Hobbes. This book does not reject the social nature of human beings, but finds that every one has a self-directed agent who is responsible for what he or she does. Machan rejects all types of collectivism, including communitarianism, ethnic solidarity, racial unity, and gender identity. The ideas expressed here have important social and political implications, and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the notion of individuality and individual responsibility.

Author : Lars Udehn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134601905

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Methodological Individualism by Lars Udehn Pdf

Throughout the history of social thought, there has been a constant battle over the true nature of society, and the best way to understand and explain it. This volume covers the development of methodological individualism, including the individualist theory of society from Greek antiquity to modern social science. It is a comprehensive and systematic treatment of methodological individualism in all its manifestations.

Author : Nathalie Bulle,Francesco Di Iorio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031415081

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The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism by Nathalie Bulle,Francesco Di Iorio Pdf

While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood. This highlights the need for a discursive and up-to-date reference work analyzing this approach’s classic arguments and assumptions in the light of contemporary issues in sociology, economics and philosophy. This two-volume handbook presents the first comprehensive overview of methodological individualism. Chapters discuss historical and contemporary debates surrounding this central approach within the social sciences, as well as cutting edge developments related to the individualist tradition with philosophical and scientific implications. Bringing together multiple contributions from the world’s leading experts on this important tradition of theorizing, this collective endeavor provides teachers, researchers and students in sociology, economics, and philosophy with a reliable and critical understanding of the founding principles, key thinkers and intellectual development of MI since the late 19th century.

Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Levellers
ISBN : UOM:49015000650557

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The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism by Crawford Brough Macpherson Pdf

Author : Milan Zafirovski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004160521

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Liberal Modernity and Its Adversaries by Milan Zafirovski Pdf

This is a book about modern liberal society and its adversaries. The book rediscovers and rehabilitates much maligned, especially in America, liberalism as the ideal system of liberty in relation to anti-liberalism as one of un-freedom. It rediscovers liberal modernity as a free, equal and just social system and time, thus most compatible with and enhancing of human civilization ushering in the 21st century. It exposes anti-liberal adversaries, especially conservatism, as ideologies and systems most inappropriate with and destructive of civilization. The book rediscovers liberal modernity as the master process and destination of Western civilization, and its anti-liberal adversaries, notably conservatism, as the ghosts of a dead past. The anti-liberal rumors of the 'death' of liberalism are 'greatly exaggerated'.

Author : Angela Mogridge,David Tuck,Neil McNaughton
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781398325425

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My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel A Level Political Ideas: Second Edition by Angela Mogridge,David Tuck,Neil McNaughton Pdf

Coverage of key up-to-date content is combined with study and exam tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide you can rely on to build both knowledge and memory. With My Revision Notes you can: - Consolidate your knowledge with clear, concise and relevant content coverage, based on what examiners are looking for - Extend your understanding with our regular 'Now test yourself,' tasks and answers - Improve your technique through our increased exam support, including exam-style practice questions, expert tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid - Identify key connections between topics and subjects with our 'Making links' focus and further ideas for follow-up and revision activities - Plan and manage a successful revision programme with our topic-by-topic planner, new skills checklist and exam breakdown features, user-friendly definitions and online questions and answers

Author : Zhenghuan Zhou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135468354

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Liberal Rights and Political Culture by Zhenghuan Zhou Pdf

This book argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and that this particular shared way of relating emerged only in the wake of the Reformation in the modern West.

Author : Tibor R. Machan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015018983224

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Capitalism and Individualism by Tibor R. Machan Pdf

The purely economic view of individualism, homo economicus, cannot provide a basis for understanding human reality. Machan mounts a robust argument for a conception of the individual that recognizes the values of the free market and civil liberties but avoids licensing the unbridled pursuit of self-interest.

Author : Adriel M. Trott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107036253

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Aristotle on the Nature of Community by Adriel M. Trott Pdf

Adriel M. Trott reads Aristotle's Politics through the internal cause definition of nature to develop an active and inclusive account of politics.

Author : Douglas B. Rasmussen,Aeon J. Skoble,Douglas J. Den Uyl
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739143018

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Reality, Reason, and Rights by Douglas B. Rasmussen,Aeon J. Skoble,Douglas J. Den Uyl Pdf

Tibor R. Machan, one of the most prolific and wide ranging philosophers of our time, has been known internationally for decades through his public speaking, opinion columns, and of course his scholarly writing. This collection of essays seeks to explore Machan's philosophical ideas by considering some of the basic issues with which he has been concerned throughout his long and highly productive career. The essays range from those concerned with the nature of reality and knowledge to those dealing with the nature of the political/legal order. Topics such as the character of human nature, free choice and responsibility, the justification of individual rights, and the place of justice in the contemporary welfare state--among other basic issues--are discussed in these essays. Because Machan himself dealt with questions of central importance, the essays should appeal to a wide range of interests and disciplines in philosophy and related fields. But the essays are also written by people accomplished in their own right and thus seek not only to comment on Machan, but to make their own contribution to enduring philosophical issues. The volume should be of value to both students and faculty alike.

Author : Nicholas Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136033049

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Planning, Politics and the State by Nicholas Low Pdf

First Published in 1990. John Maynard Keynes once made the bold prediction that the three- hour work day would prevail for his grandchildren's generation. Seventy years later, the question of working time is as pertinent as it was at the inception of the 40-hour week. Not until now, however, has there been a global comparative analysis of working time laws, policies and actual working hours. Despite a century-long optimism about reduced working hours and some progress in legal measures limiting working hours, this book demonstrates that differences in actual working hours between industrialized and developing countries remain considerable – without any clear sign of hours being reduced. This study aims to offer some suggestions about how this gap can begin to be closed. most basic questions facing planning theory and practice today. The author argues that it is not plans that determine the shape of cities, but political processes. In the 1980s state planning came under siege; planners had to justify their existence to politicians, the business world and the public. Though planning must still be accountable, neither the complete domination of the market nor traditional post-war planning ideologies are wholly acceptable in the 1990s. A new agenda and a major rethinking of planning from first principles is required - but what form should this take? Showing that political theory provides the proper foundation for understanding planning practice, the book explores in turn assenting and dissenting planning paradigms. Exploration of the former begins with Weber and moves through pluralism, corporatism and neo-liberalism. Dissenting theory is organized around the work of Marx: orthodox neo-Marxism, Gramsci's 'philosophy of praxis', the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, and the work of Habermas. The author concludes with a presentation of an integrated political perspective upon planning and the state.

Author : George H. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107005075

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The System of Liberty by George H. Smith Pdf

Liberal individualism, or "classical liberalism" as it is often called, refers to a political philosophy in which liberty plays the central role. This book demonstrates a conceptual unity within the manifestations of classical liberalism by tracing the history of several interrelated and reinforcing themes. Concepts such as order, justice, rights, and freedom have imparted unity to this diverse political ideology by integrating context and meaning. However, they have also sparked conflict, as classical liberals split on a number of issues, such as legitimate exceptions to the "presumption of liberty," the meaning of "the public good," natural rights versus utilitarianism, the role of the state in education, and the rights of resistance and revolution. This book explores these conflicts and their implications for contemporary liberal and libertarian thought.

Author : Kathy Schindler,Andrew Heywood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350382398

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Essentials of Political Ideas by Kathy Schindler,Andrew Heywood Pdf

Refreshed and completely restructured to align with the new Edexcel Politics A-Level specification, this is the new edition of Andrew Heywood's highly respected introduction to political ideas, ideologies and thinkers for A-Level students. Essentials of Political Ideas is the only Edexcel-specific text on ideas on the market. Suitable for flexible use across all ideas components of the A-Level course, it offers full coverage of both the core political ideas (conservatism, liberalism and socialism) and the non-core ideas (anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism and nationalism). Drawing on her extensive teaching, examining and workshop experience, Kathy Schindler has adapted the text to make it even more student-friendly and focused on exam success. Practical and informative pedagogy, from Key Thinker boxes to Similarities and Differences summaries, will enable students to understand and analyse key political concepts and thinkers and construct persuasive arguments using the correct terminology. This new edition offers: · A dedicated Exam Skills chapter, giving advice for exam success alongside annotated example answers · An extensive companion website with further sample answers, teaching tips, revision planning resources, links for further study and more · Coverage of thinkers not included on the specification, helping students to place their understanding in a broader context

Author : Caleb Williams Saleeby
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1333801084

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Individualism and Collectivism by Caleb Williams Saleeby Pdf

Excerpt from Individualism and Collectivism: Four Lectures Our political practice, and our political theory, alike utterly reject those regal pre rogatives which once passed unquestioned. Though our forms of speech and our State-documents still assert the subjection of the Citizens to the ruler, our actual beliefs and our daily proceedings implicitly assert the contrary. Nor has the rejection of primitive political beliefs resulted only in transferring the authority of an autocrat to a representative body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.