Social and Political Philosophy Classical

This anthology, with general and reading-specific introductions by the editor, puts the historical development of Western social and political philosophy into both feminist and multicultural perspectives. Each of the book's sections provides a basic foundation of classic Western readings, followed by articles with feminist and multicultural perspectives.

Preface

ix

General Introduction

1

(3)

I Plato

4

(42)

Introduction

4

(2)

The Republic

6

(27)

Plato

The Function of Equal Education in Plato's Republic

33

(7)

Lynda Lange

Confucius: The Analects

40

(6)

Recommended Readings

45

(1)

II Aristotle and Musonius Rufus

46

(39)

Introduction

46

(3)

Nicomachean Ethics

49

(8)

Aristotle

The Politics

57

(11)

Aristotle

Discourses

68

(4)

Musonius Rufus

Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul

72

(8)

Elizabeth V. Spelman

Ewe Proverbs

80

(5)

Recommended Readings

83

(2)

III Augustine and Christine de Pizan

85

(19)

Introduction

85

(3)

The City of God

88

(7)

Augustine

Confessions

95

(1)

Augustine

The Book of the City of Ladies

95

(3)

Christine de Pizan

Misogynism and Virginal Feminism in the Fathers of the Church

98

(3)

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Pre-Columbian Philosophical Perspectives

101

(3)

Jorge Valadez

Recommended Readings

103

(1)

IV Aquinas

104

(35)

Introduction

104

(2)

Summa Theologica

106

(13)

Thomas Aquinas

On Kingship

119

(3)

Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologica

122

(3)

Thomas Aquinas

The Equality of Men and Women

125

(7)

Marie le jars de Gournay

Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed

132

(7)

Recommended Readings

137

(2)

V Hobbes

139

(45)

Introduction

139

(2)

Leviathan

141

(26)

Thomas Hobbes

Hobbes, Patriarchy and Conjugal Right

167

(13)

Carole Pateman

The Devastation of the Indies

180

(4)

Bartolome de Las Casas

Recommended Readings

183

(1)

VI Locke

184

(41)

Introduction

184

(2)

Two Treatises on Government

186

(21)

John Locke

Women and John Locke; Or, Who Owns the Apples in the Garden of Eden?

207

(15)

Lorenne M. G. Clark

We Must be United

222

(3)

Tecumseh

Recommended Readings

224

(1)

VII Rousseau

225

(62)

Introduction

225

(2)

A Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind

227

(9)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On the Social Contract

236

(14)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Emile

250

(13)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

263

(7)

Mary Wollstonecraft

Perversions of Justice: A Native-American Examination of the Doctrine of U.S. Rights to Occupancy in North America

270

(17)

Ward Churchill

Recommended Readings

285

(2)

VIII Kant

287

(31)

Introduction

287

(2)

Theory and Practice

289

(5)

Immanuel Kant

The Metaphysic of Morals

294

(2)

Immanuel Kant

Perpetual Peace

296

(4)

Immanuel Kant

Kant: ``An Honest but Narrow-Minded Bourgeois''?

300

(12)

Susan Mendus

On Satyagraha

312

(6)

Mohandas Gandi

Recommended Readings

316

(2)

IX Mill and Harriet Taylor

318

(54)

Introduction

318

(2)

Utilitarianism

320

(14)

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

334

(6)

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

340

(11)

John Stuart Mill

Enfranchisement of Women

351

(3)

Harriet Taylor

Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women

354

(11)

Mary Lyndon Shanley

Universal Love

365

(7)

Mo Tzu

Recommended Readings

371

(1)

X Marx and Engels

372

(37)

Introduction

372

(2)

Communist Manifesto

374

(5)

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

Critique of the Gotha Program

379

(3)

Karl Marx

The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State

382

(10)

Friedrich Engels

The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union

392

(11)

Heidi Hartman

Buddhist Economics

403

(6)

E. F. Schumacher

Recommended Readings

408

(1)

XI Rawls and Hospers

409

(50)

Introduction

409

(3)

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

412

(15)

John Rawls

The Libertarian Manifesto

427

(11)

John Hospers

Justice as Fairness-For Whom?

438

(11)

Susan Okin

The Political Theory of Islam

449

(10)

Abu'l A'la Mawdudi

Recommended Readings

458

(1)

XII Habermas and Foucault

459

(40)

Introduction

459

(2)

Discourse Ethics

461

(7)

Jurgen Habermas

Power/Knowledge

468

(9)

Michel Foucault

Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power

477

(14)

Sandra Lee Bartky

Philosophy, Politics and Power: An Afro-American Perspective

491

(8)

Cornel West

Recommended Readings

497

(2)

XIII MacIntyre and Charles Taylor

499

(39)

Introduction

499

(3)

The Political and Social Structures of the Common Good

502

(6)

Alasdair MacIntyre

Atomism

508

(12)

Charles Taylor

Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community

520

(11)

Marilyn Friedman

Ancient Futures

531

(7)

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Recommended Readings

537

(1)

XIV Cornel West and Martha Nussbaum

538

(32)

Introduction

538

(1)

The Politics of American Neo-Pragmatism

539

(10)

Cornel West

The Future of Feminist Liberalism

549

(21)

Martha Nussbaum

Recommended Readings

569

(1)

XV Concluding Philosophical Postscript: Reconciling Social and Political Ideals

570

James P. Sterba

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Social and Political Philosophy Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives

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