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The Consensus-Conflict Debate. Form and Content in Social Theories / Thomas J. Bernard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1983]Copyright date: ©1983Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231907309
  • 9780231880206
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Plato and Aristotle -- Chapter 3. Augustine and Aquinas -- Chapter 4. Machiavelli and Hobbes -- Chapter 5. Locke and Rousseau -- Chapter 6. Comte and Marx -- Chapter 7. Durkheim and Simmel -- Chapter 8. Parsons and Dahrendorf -- Chapter 9. The Relation Between Consensus and Conflict Theories -- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Theory, Fact, and Value -- Index
Summary: Addresses the debate of whether society is a smoldering set of tension-filled relations that periodically erupt into conflict or an integrated and coordinated whole typified by consensus on values and beliefs. Examines seven pairs of philosophers who can be classified as "conflict" or "consensus" theorists: Aristotle and Plato, Augustine and Aquinas, Hobbes and Machiavelli, Locke and Rousseau, Comte and Marx, Durkheim and Simmel, and Parsons and Dahrendorf.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231880206

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Plato and Aristotle -- Chapter 3. Augustine and Aquinas -- Chapter 4. Machiavelli and Hobbes -- Chapter 5. Locke and Rousseau -- Chapter 6. Comte and Marx -- Chapter 7. Durkheim and Simmel -- Chapter 8. Parsons and Dahrendorf -- Chapter 9. The Relation Between Consensus and Conflict Theories -- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Theory, Fact, and Value -- Index

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Addresses the debate of whether society is a smoldering set of tension-filled relations that periodically erupt into conflict or an integrated and coordinated whole typified by consensus on values and beliefs. Examines seven pairs of philosophers who can be classified as "conflict" or "consensus" theorists: Aristotle and Plato, Augustine and Aquinas, Hobbes and Machiavelli, Locke and Rousseau, Comte and Marx, Durkheim and Simmel, and Parsons and Dahrendorf.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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