Ethical frontiers of the state : an essay in political philosophy / A.J.M. Milne.

Author
Milne, A. J. M. (Alan John Mitchell), 1922- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Description
x, 338 pages ; 23 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-333) and index.
    Contents
    • Philosophy and its subject matter
    • Reasons for starting with T.H. Green-on the plan of this book
    • The Common Good
    • The Common Good and T.H. Green's Ethical Theory
    • Exposition of Green's Ethical Theory
    • Criticism of Green's ethical theory: on the idea of 'good' and its varieties
    • Criticism continued: the common good and the social good
    • Criticism continued: morality and the true good
    • The Common Good and Humanistic Social Ethics
    • On rules and rule-controlled action
    • On principles and principle-directed action
    • Common morality and particular moralities
    • Good and evil, right and wrong, fact and value
    • The Common Good and T.H. Green's Political Theory
    • Exposition of Green's political theory: on the key role of the idea of rights
    • Elucidation of the idea of rights
    • Elucidation of the idea of rights (continued): rights and morality
    • On the sources of rights
    • Green's political theory: interpretation and assessment-from a 'rights-based' to a 'neo-communitarian' idea of the state
    • Green's political theory: interpretation and assessment (continued)-state action and 'the removal of obstacles'
    • Politics and the Human Condition
    • The Idea of Government
    • Three questions about government: some related conceptual issues
    • Answers to the three questions: on political authority
    • On the nature and significance of government: why government must be constitutional
    • Forms of government: on representative democracy, representation and accountability.
    ISBN
    • 0312177224 ((cloth))
    • 9780312177225 ((cloth))
    • 0333714431
    • 9780333714430
    LCCN
    97021578
    OCLC
    36994575
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