Introduction

Thomas Christiano, John Christman

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Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationContemporary Debates in Political Philosophy
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
Pages1-20
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9781405133210
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 27 2009

Keywords

  • Constitutionalism
  • Contemporary political philosophy - focusing on individual political societies and their evaluation
  • Deliberative democracy
  • Ideal of democracy - explicitly articulated in ancient Greek city-states sixth century before the Christian era
  • Man was born free and he is everywhere in chains - Jean-Jacques Rousseau's profound observation and question
  • Political person
  • Profound questions of political philosophy concerning how to deal with the centuries-long injustices done to minorities, women and others
  • Questions of Method - How should political philosophy proceed? What mode of thought should predominate in theoretical exchanges
  • Thomas Christiano and John Christman
  • Troubled dominance of liberal paradigm

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

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