The political theory of possessive individualism : Hobbes to Locke / C.B. Macpherson ; [with a new introduction by Frank Cunningham].
Material type: TextSeries: Wynford ProjectPublication details: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2011.Edition: [Wynford ed.]Description: xvii, 310 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780195444018 (pbk.)
- 0195444019 (pbk.)
- 320.51/2 22
- JC153 .M2 2011
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Books | Prof. Ram Dayal Munda Central Library | Political Science | 320.51 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 70645 |
Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1962.
Includes bibliographical references: p. [302]-303 and index.
Introduction. The roots of liberal-democratic theory -- Problems of interpretation -- Hobbe : the political obligation of the market. Philosophy and political theory -- Human nature and the state of nature -- Models of society -- Political obligation -- Penetration and limits of Hobbe's political theory -- The Levellers : franchise and freedom. The problem of franchise -- Types of franchise -- The record -- Theoretical implications -- Harrington : the opportunity state. Unexamined ambiguities -- The balance and the gentry -- The bourgeois society -- The equal commonwealth and the equal agrarian -- The self-cancelling balance principle -- Harrington's stature --Locke : the political theory of appropriation. Interpretations -- The theory of property right -- Class differentials in natural rights and rationality -- The ambiguous state of nature -- The ambiguous civil society -- Unsettled problems reconsidered -- Possessive individualism and liberal democracy. The seventeenth-century foundations -- The twentieth-century dilemma -- Appendix : Social classes and franchise classes in England, circa 1648.
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