TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolff,Jonathan
AU  - Cohen,G.A.
TI  - Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy
SN  - 9780691149004
AV  - BJ71 .C64 2017
U1  - 170 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Ethics
KW  - History
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Absolute Idealism
KW  - Allen W. Wood
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Beyond Good and Evil
KW  - Christine Korsgaard
KW  - David Hume
KW  - Friedrich Nietzsche
KW  - G. A. Cohen
KW  - G. W. F. Hegel
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Jewishness
KW  - John Locke
KW  - Jon Elster
KW  - Karl Marx
KW  - Leviathan
KW  - Marxism
KW  - Phenomenology of Spirit
KW  - Plato
KW  - Reinhold Niebuhr
KW  - Republic
KW  - Richard Peters
KW  - Second Treatise of Government
KW  - Socrates
KW  - Sophism
KW  - Soviet Communism
KW  - The Genealogy of Morals
KW  - The Holy Family
KW  - Theory of History
KW  - Thomas Hobbes
KW  - alienation
KW  - analytical philosophy
KW  - authoritarianism
KW  - authority
KW  - bourgeoisie
KW  - capitalism
KW  - capitalist society
KW  - capitalist
KW  - competition
KW  - consent
KW  - convention
KW  - diffidence
KW  - equality
KW  - ethics
KW  - evil
KW  - faith
KW  - freedom
KW  - functional explanation
KW  - game theory
KW  - glory
KW  - good
KW  - government
KW  - governmental authority
KW  - health
KW  - historical materialism
KW  - human essence
KW  - human nature
KW  - humanity
KW  - justice
KW  - knowledge
KW  - legitimacy
KW  - legitimate government
KW  - liberalism
KW  - master
KW  - mens sana
KW  - mind
KW  - moral behavior
KW  - moral law
KW  - moral philosophy
KW  - morality
KW  - motivation
KW  - nature
KW  - obedience
KW  - obligation
KW  - philosophical materialism
KW  - philosophy
KW  - political obligation
KW  - political philosophy
KW  - power
KW  - private property
KW  - proletarian
KW  - proletariat
KW  - property
KW  - reason
KW  - self-estrangement
KW  - self-ownership
KW  - self-realization
KW  - slave
KW  - social analysis
KW  - social contract theory
KW  - socialism
KW  - socialist revolution
KW  - soul
KW  - state of nature
KW  - state of war
KW  - subject
KW  - suffering
KW  - theory of history
KW  - totalitarianism
KW  - virtue
KW  - worker
KW  - working class
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Editor's Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Part One. Lectures --; Part Two. Papers --; Part Three. Memoir --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history of philosophy, focusing instead on equality, freedom, and justice. However, throughout his career he regularly lectured on a wide range of moral and political philosophers of the past. This volume collects these previously unpublished lectures. Starting with a chapter centered on Plato, but also discussing the pre-Socratics as well as Aristotle, the book moves to social contract theory as discussed by Hobbes, Locke, and Hume, and then continues with chapters on Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. The book also contains some previously published but uncollected papers on Marx, Hobbes, and Kant, among other figures. The collection concludes with a memoir of Cohen written by the volume editor, Jonathan Wolff, who was a student of Cohen's. A hallmark of the lectures is Cohen's engagement with the thinkers he discusses. Rather than simply trying to render their thought accessible to the modern reader, he tests whether their arguments and positions are clear, sound, and free from contradiction. Throughout, he homes in on central issues and provides fresh approaches to the philosophers he examines. Ultimately, these lectures teach us not only about some of the great thinkers in the history of moral and political philosophy, but also about one of the great thinkers of our time: Cohen himself
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