The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political

The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy brings together a collection of newly commissioned essays which examine fundamental issues in social and political theory. Written by leading social and political philosophers, each essay provides a map to the history of the issue at hand and a judicious assessment of the main arguments that have been brought to bear upon that issue.

Robert L. Simon is Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College. He is author of numerous articles in social and political philosophy as well as Fair Play (1991) and Neutrality and the Academic Ethic (1994), and co-author of The Individual and the Political Order, (third edition, 1998). He is currently working on issues in discourse ethics and on the ethics of competition in athletics, and is a past president of the International Association of the Philosophy of Sport.

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: Social and Political Philosophy - Sorting Out the Issues

1

(16)

Robert L. Simon

Part I Core Principles and the Liberal Democratic State

Political Obligation and Authority

17

(21)

A. John Simmons

Liberty, Coercion, and the Limits of the State

38

(22)

Alan Wertheimer

Justice

60

(25)

Christopher Health Wellman

Equality

85

(21)

Richard J. Arneson

Preference, Rationality, and Democratic Theory

106

(25)

Ann E. Cudd

Part II Liberalism, Its Critics, and Alternative Approaches

Marx's Legacy

131

(23)

Richard W. Miller

Feminism and Political Theory

154

(23)

Virginia Held

Liberalism and the Challenge of Communitarianism

177

(20)

James P. Sterba

Liberal Theories and their Critics

197

(24)

William Nelson

Part III Pluralism, Diversity, and Deliberation

Deliberative Democracy

221

(18)

James S. Fishkin

Citizenship and Pluralism

239

(32)

Daniel M. Weinstock

The New Enlightenment: Critical Reflections on the Political Significance of Race

271

(21)

A. Todd Franklin

Religion and Liberal Democracy

292

(27)

Christopher J. Eberle

Select Bibliography

319

(2)

Index

321

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