Political concepts and political theories

Abstract

* List of Figures * Preface Part I: Conceptual Analysis and Political Theories * 1. What Are Political Concepts? * 1.1 Socrates's Question * 1.2 Words, Definitions, and Things * 1.3 Wittgenstein's Later Analysis * 1.4 Wittgenstein and Conceptual Investigations * 1.5 Summary * Notes * 2. Conceptual Disputes * 2.1 Essentially Contested Concepts * 2.2 Political Ideologies * 2.3 Political Philosophy and Political Theories * 2.4 Summary * Notes * 3. Political Theories: Conceptual Structures and Enduring Types * 3.1 Liberalism, Socialism, and Conservatism * 3.2 Rationalism/Antirationalism * 3.3 Theories of Human Nature * 3.4 Individualism/Collectivism * 3.5 Summary * Notes Part II: Political Concepts * 4. Negative and Positive Liberty * 4.1 Negative Liberty: Some Ordinary Language Considerations * 4.2 Positive Freedom * 4.3 Two Concepts of Liberty * 4.3 Questioning the Positive/Negative Distinction * 4.4 Summary * Notes * 5. Liberty and Power * 5.1. Positive Freedom as Power to Act * 5.2 Power and Freedom * 5.3 Freedom, Power, and Property * 5.4 Freedom, Power, and the Law * 5.5 Summary * Notes * 6. Equality * 6.1 Equality and the Grounds for Equal Treatment * 6.2 Why Equality? External Arguments for the Importance of Equality * 6.3 Why Equality? Arguments from Fundamental Human Equality * 6.4 Equality of What? * 6.5 Summary * Notes * 7. Equality and Liberty in Political Theories * 7.1 Do Liberty and Equality Conflict? * 7.2 Classical Liberalism: Liberty and Basic Equality * 7.3 Revisionist Liberalisms * 7.4 A Socialist Reconciliation Proposal * 7.5 The Conservative Critique of Equality * 7.6 Summary * Notes * 8. Justice and Liberalism * 8.1 The Elements of Justice * 8.2 Classical Liberalism: Rules for Equally Free People * 8.3 Monistic Revisionist Liberalism: Social Justice and Contributions to the Common Good * 8.4 Pluralistic Revisionist Liberalism: A Revised Social Contract Among Free and Equal People * 8.5 Summary * Notes * 9. Justice, Society, and Community * 9.1 Marx on Societies and Their Justice * 9.2 Socialism and the Democratic Community * 9.3 Three Conservative Approaches to Justice * 9.4 Summary * Notes * 10. Political Authority * 10.1 Conservatism and Political Authority * 10.2 On Being In Authority, * 10.3 Liberal Political Authority * 10.4 Democratic Authority and the Management of Collective Affairs * 10.5 Summary * Notes * Concluding Remarks: From Political Concepts to Political Theories * Index