Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy by Rawls, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Foreword Introductory Remarks Texts Cited Introduction HOBBES HOBBES I - Hobbes’s Secular Moralism and the Role of His Social Contract

§1. Introduction §2. Hobbes’s Secular Moralism §3. Interpretations of the State of Nature and the Social Contract Hobbes Lecture I: Appendix A Hobbes Lecture I: Appendix B Hobbes Lecture I: Appendix C

HOBBES II - Human Nature and the State of Nature

§1. Preliminary Remarks §2. Main Features of Human Nature §3. The Argument for Hobbes’s Thesis Hobbes Lecture II: Appendix A

HOBBES III - Hobbes’s Account of Practical Reasoning

§1. The Reasonable and the Rational §2. The Rational Basis of the Reasonable Articles of Civic Concord Hobbes Lecture III: Appendix A (1979) Hobbes Lecture III: Appendix B

HOBBES IV - The Role and Powers of the Sovereign

Hobbes Lecture IV: Appendix A Hobbes Lecture IV: Appendix B

Appendix: Hobbes Index - [Page references are to Schneider edition]

LIBERTY JUSTICE SOVEREIGN AND SOVEREIGN’S POWERS LAWS OF NATURE CONTENT OF LAWS OF NATURE

LOCKE LOCKE I - His Doctrine of Natural Law

§1. Introductory Remarks §2. The Meaning of Natural Law §3. The Fundamental Law of Nature §4. The State of Nature as a State of Equality §5. The Content of the Fundamental Law of Nature §6. The Fundamental Law of Nature as the Basis of Natural Rights

LOCKE II - His Account of a Legitimate Regime

LOCKE III - Property and the Class State

§1. Problem Stated §2. Background of the Question §3. Locke’s Reply to Filmer: I: Chapter 4 §4. Locke’s Reply to Filmer: II: Chapter 5 §5. Problem of the Class State §6. A Just-So Story of the Origin of the Class State

HUME HUME I - “Of the Original Contract”

§1. Introductory Remarks §2. Hume’s Critique of Locke’s Social Contract

HUME II - Utility, Justice, and the Judicious Spectator

§1. Remarks on the Principle of Utility §2. The Artificial Virtue of Justice §3. The Judicious Spectator

ROUSSEAU ROUSSEAU I - The Social Contract: Its Problem

§1. Itroduction §2. The Stages of History before Political Society §3. The Stage of Civil Society and of Political Authority §4. The Relevance for the Social Contract Rousseau Lecture I (1981): Appendix A §1. Contra Original Sin §2. Rousseau contra Hobbes: Further Meaning of Natural Goodness—as Premise of ... §3. The Possibilities of a Well-Regulated Society Rousseau: Appendix B

ROUSSEAU II - The Social Contract: Assumptions and the General Will (I)

§1. Introduction §2. The Social Compact §3. The General Will

ROUSSEAU III - The General Will (II) and the Question of Stability

MILL MILL I - His Conception of Utility

§1. Introductory Remarks: J. S. Mill (1806-1873) §2. One Way to Read Mill’s Utilitarianism §3. Happiness as the Ultimate End §4. The Decided Preference Criterion §5. Further Comments on the Decided Preference Criterion §6. Mill’s Underlying Psychology

MILL II - His Account of Justice

§1. Our Approach to Mill §2. Mill’s Account of Justice §3. The Place of Justice in Morality §4. Features of Moral Rights in Mill §5. Mill’s Two-Part Criterion §6. The Desire to Be in Unity with Others

MILL III - The Principle of Liberty

§1. The Problem of On Liberty (1859) §2. Some Preliminary Points about Mill’s Principle §3. Mill’s Principle of Liberty Stated §4. On Natural (Abstract) Right Conclusion

MILL IV - His Doctrine as a Whole

§1. Introduction §2. The Framework of Mill’s Doctrine §3. The First Two Permanent Interests of Humankind §4. Two Other Permanent Interests §5. Relation to the Decided Preference Criterion §6. Relation to Individuality §7. The Place of Perfectionist Values

MARX MARX I - His View of Capitalism as a Social System

§1. Preliminary Remarks §2. Features of Capitalism as a Social System §3. The Labor Theory of Value Appendix: Marx Lecture I

MARX II - His Conception of Right and Justice

MARX III - His Ideal: A Society of Freely Associated Producers

§1. Are Marx’s Ideas about Justice Consistent? §2. Why Marx Does Not Discuss Ideas of Justice Explicitly §3. Disappearance of Ideological Consciousness §4. A Society without Alienation §5. Absence of Exploitation §6. Full Communism: First Defect of Socialism Overcome §7. Full Communism: Division of Labor Overcome §8. Is the Higher Phase of Communism a Society Beyond Justice? Concluding Remarks

APPENDIXES FOUR LECTURES ON HENRY SIDGWICK - (Fall 1976, 1979) FIVE LECTURES ON JOSEPH BUTLER APPENDIX: ADDITIONAL NOTES ON BUTLER COURSE OUTLINE Index