By Ian Adams
Fifty significant Political Thinkers introduces the lives and ideas of a few of the main influential figures in Western political inspiration, from historical Greece to the current day. The entries supply a desirable advent to the most important figures and colleges of proposal that experience formed modern politics, including:
- Aristotle
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Michel Foucault
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Jurgen Habermas
- Machiavelli
- Karl Marx
- Thomas Paine
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Mary Wollstonecraft.
Fully cross-referenced and together with a thesaurus of theoretical phrases, this wide-ranging and obtainable e-book is key analyzing for an individual with an curiosity within the evolution and background of up to date political thought.
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It is associated in his mind with, although it does not strictly imply, a destructive egoism. This feature of his thought is essential to his understanding of the nature and purposes of government. Given that each individual is no more than a self-contained mechanism operated by the attracting and repelling forces of pleasure and pain, no one has any reason to will anything but the greatest possible pleasure for themselves and the least possible pain. Hobbes does not believe that we are incapable of such things as benevolence.
Precious metals and stones are treated with ostentatious contempt, yet everyone is provided for: food, shelter and other needs are fully met from communal sources, there is communal eating and all must work. There are no hereditary social classes in Utopia, which is a highly egalitarian and meritocratic society. But there is a class of scholars from which all officials and priests are chosen. Children of scholarly promise are picked out at an early age, although many of the population cultivate scholarly pursuits in their spare time.
Warrender, H. : The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957). Watkins, J. W. N. : Hobbes's System of Ideas (London: Hutchinson, 1973). Page 44 / 206 James Harrington (1611-77) James Harrington was born in Lincolnshire, England. He inherited a large fortune from his father while still a young man. After studying at Oxford, he made the customary Grand Tour of Europe. He was much impressed by the Republic of Venice and returned home in 1635 a convinced republican, though he remained a loyal supporter and friend of Charles I.