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Informationen zum Autor Alex Tuckness is a Professor at Iowa State University in the departments of Political Science and Philosophy. His research focuses on toleration, mercy, punishment, international humanitarianism, and public service ethics. He is the author of Locke and the Legislative Point of View (2002) and The Decline of Mercy in Public Life (with John Michael Parrish, 2014) as well as numerous articles. Clark Wolf is Professor at Iowa State University in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science. His research focuses on issues in the theory of justice, the philosophy of law, and bioethics. His work on law, intergenerational justice, political liberalism, intellectual property, reproductive ethics, and environmental ethics have appeared in Ethics and other major journals. Klappentext This is Political Philosophy is an accessible and well-balanced introduction to the main issues in political philosophy written by an author team from the fields of both philosophy and politics. This text connects issues at the core of political philosophy with current, live debates in policy, politics, and law and addresses different ideals of political organization, such as democracy, liberty, equality, justice, and happiness. Written with great clarity, This is Political Philosophy is accessible and engaging to those who have little or no prior knowledge of political philosophy and is supported with supplemental pedagogical and instructor material on the This Is Philosophy series site. Zusammenfassung This is Political Philosophy is an accessible and well-balanced introduction to the main issues in political philosophy written by an author team from the fields of both philosophy and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis How to Use this Book xi Preface xiii Part I The Problem of Authority 1 1 Happiness 3 Doing Political Philosophy 4 Happiness, Welfare, and the Aims of Government 5 If You're Happy Do You Know It? 5 The Pursuit of Happiness 6 Whose happiness? 7 Can you measure pleasure? 8 Future happiness 10 Pleasure and pain 11 Is happiness fulfilling your desires? 12 Do the ends justify the means? 14 Nozick's Experience Machine 14 Happiness and virtue 15 The case of John Stuart Mill 17 Capabilities 18 Conflicts between liberty and happiness 22 Conflicts between equality and happiness 22 Happiness and Government 23 Happiness and Public Goods 24 Free Riding and Small Contributions 25 Philosophical objections 26 Should we evaluate political institutions according to their ability to make people happy? 27 References and Further Reading 28 Online Resources 30 2 Freedom 31 The Meaning of Freedom 34 The Fundamental Question 34 What Is Freedom? And Who Is Free? 35 Subjective and objective freedom 36 What counts as restraining freedom? 37 Freedom and consent 38 Republican liberty 39 Private freedom and public freedom 40 Negative and positive liberty 41 Paternalism, the Harm Principle, and Moralism 42 Paternalism 42 The harm principle 44 Moralism 48 Can (and should) we avoid moralism? 50 Conclusion 51 References and Further Reading 52 Online Resources 53 3 Equality 54 Introduction 55 How Unequal Are People in the United States? 56 Against Equality: A Politics of Procrustes? 57 Unequal Treatment and Discrimination 59 Equality as a Baseline? 61 Equality of Resources and Luck Egalitarianism 62 First objection: Disabilities 62 Second objection: Slavery of the talented 63 Third objection: Expensive tastes 63 Equality of Opportunity 64 Should w...
