{"product_id":"lectures-on-the-history-of-political-philosophy-9780674024922","title":"Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis last book by the late John Rawls  derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy  offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the philosophy behind that tradition.  Rawlss goal in the lectures was  he wrote  \"to identify the more central features of liberalism as expressing a political conception of justice when liberalism is viewed from within the tradition of democratic constitutionalism.\" He does this by looking at several strands that make up the liberal and democratic constitutional traditions  and at the historical figures who best represent these strands--among them the contractarians Hobbes  Locke  and Rousseau; the utilitarians Hume  Sidgwick  and J. S. Mill; and Marx regarded as a critic of liberalism. Rawlss lectures on Bishop Joseph Butler also are included in an appendix. Constantly revised and refined over three decades  Rawlss lectures on these figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy--as well as how he saw his own work in relation to those traditions.  With its clear and careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract  utilitarianism  and socialism--and of their most influential proponents--this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds. Marked by Rawlss characteristic patience and curiosity  and scrupulously edited by his student and teaching assistant  Samuel Freeman  these lectures are a fitting final addition to his oeuvre  and to the history of political philosophy as well.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652735721525,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674024923","price":96.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674024922.jpg?v=1781852594","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/lectures-on-the-history-of-political-philosophy-9780674024922","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}