This is a concise and profound book from one of the world's leading political and legal philosophers about a major theme, equality, and the proposition that humans are all one another's equals. Jeremy Waldron explores the implications of this fundamental tenet for law, politics, society and economy in the company of John Locke, whose work Waldron regards 'as well-worked-out a t...
This is a concise and profound book from one of the world's leading political and legal philosophers about a major theme, equality, and the proposition that humans are all one another's equals. Jeremy Waldron explores the implications of this fundamental tenet for law, politics, society and economy in the company of John Locke, whose work Waldron regards 'as well-worked-out a theory of basic equality as we have in the canon of political philosophy'. Throughout the text, which is based on the Carlyle Lectures given in Oxford in 1999, Jeremy Waldron discusses contemporary approaches to equality and rival interpretations of Locke, and this dual agenda gives the whole an unusual degree of accessibility and intellectual excitement, of interest to philosophers, political theorists, lawyers and theologians around the world.
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华夏出版社2015版
0 有用 Tacitus 2016-05-29 23:54:49
读的第一本Waldron的著作，文笔出乎意料地流畅易读，能体现作者的战斗格～作者在本书中论证的论题为基本平等(basic equality)乃洛克理论体系的基石，而该概念构建离不开基督教的神学基础，后者既为其政治哲学大厦提供基石亦为其限制—其中第六章关于私有财产权的论述最能体现洛克从神学到社会基本制度的论证模式；作者指出洛克的理论既有其17世纪的局限(例如家政关系中夫妻权威的不平等)，但亦有延续当... 读的第一本Waldron的著作，文笔出乎意料地流畅易读，能体现作者的战斗格～作者在本书中论证的论题为基本平等(basic equality)乃洛克理论体系的基石，而该概念构建离不开基督教的神学基础，后者既为其政治哲学大厦提供基石亦为其限制—其中第六章关于私有财产权的论述最能体现洛克从神学到社会基本制度的论证模式；作者指出洛克的理论既有其17世纪的局限(例如家政关系中夫妻权威的不平等)，但亦有延续当代的关切—即基本平等之后元理论(meta-theory)问题：洛克用“人通过理性抽象出个体与神的关系”解决的，当代的世俗理论(本书的矛头指向罗尔斯的政治自由主义的“重叠共识”(overlapping consensus))能否提供足够稳固的基础？ (展开)
0 有用 Vita Nova 2024-04-29 13:18:55 美国
unmotivated. Waldron is smart but so fussy....