Great Political Thinkers series – serie

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11 produkter

1. 

   Plato

   Av John Dunn, Ian Harris

   Inbunden, 1997

   8819 kr

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   Plato of Athens (c 429-347 BC) is the earliest European thinker whose thoughts on politics survive to any great extent. His work, contained in The Republic, the Statesman, the Laws and the unfinished Critias, amongst other works, has made major contributions to the agenda of Western Political …

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   Aristotle

   Av John Dunn, Ian Harris

   Inbunden, 1997

   10007 kr

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   Aristotle (384-322 BC) was born in Northern Greece. He moved to Athens where he associated himself with Plato’s academy. He later became tutor to the young Alexander the Great at the Macedonian court but returned to Athens in 335 to found his own school of philosophy.Aristotle’s basic political …

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   Augustine

   Av John Dunn, Ian Harris

   Inbunden, 1997

   8613 kr

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   Born in what is now Algeria, Augustine trained in classical Latin rhetoric and became a professor of rhetoric in Rome. He later studied neo-Platonic philosophy and experienced a conversion to Christianity in 386.[Through his numerous theological writings, Augustine became one of the major …

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   Aquinas

   Av John Dunn, Ian Harris

   Inbunden, 1997

   9249 kr

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   Thomas Aquinas (1224-74) was born in Naples of a powerful Italian family. He took part in the major philosophical and theological controversies of his day and fought the decisive battle which re-admitted the study of the works of Aristotle.In his work he attempted to harmonise the rational insights …

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   Machiavelli

   Av John Dunn, Ian Harris

   Inbunden, 1997

   10368 kr

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   The work of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) has a variety of meanings for different interpreters. Some attribute to him a new 'scientific method' of drawing conclusions from practical or historical experience in order to form rules for successful political behaviour, with its emphasis on man's …

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   More

   Av John Dunn, Ian Harris

   Inbunden, 1997

   7959 kr

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   Thomas More (1478-1535), English statesman, author and saint, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat, a leading member of the Renaissance of northern Europe and a defender of the Roman Catholic faith. In the history of political thought More is remembered as the author of Utopia, a little book which …

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   Grotius

   Av John Dunn, Ian Harris

   Inbunden, 1997

   10007 kr

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   Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), the Dutch jurist and philosopher, is a key theorist of the post-mediaeval state. According to Grotius, the state is not subject to any terrestrial superior, either political or ecclesiastical. His political writings develop the consequences of this condition including the …

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   Hobbes

   Av John Dunn, Ian Harris

   Inbunden, 1997

   15170 kr

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   Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is best known for his development of the concept of sovereignty, which was treated most clearly in his great work, Leviathan. Whilst Hobbes was not the first theorist of sovereignty, he remains perhaps the most thorough exponent of the concept. His accounts of morality and …

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   Locke

   Av John Dunn, Ian Harris

   Inbunden, 1997

   10007 kr

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   John Locke (1632-1704), the English philosopher, has had a wide-ranging influence on modern political thought. Locke’s political philosophy is based on the premise that by nature human beings are equal and that therefore no-one is under the authority of another unless by his own consent. In Locke’s …

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    Hume

    Av John Dunn, Ian Harris

    Inbunden, 1997

    9490 kr

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    The work of David Hume (1711-76), the Scottish historian and philosopher, constitutes a break with the assumptions of his predecessors who suggested that our ideas and practices answered to a rational design, whether divine or human. Instead Hume emphasized the origins of our ideas in sensation, …

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    Great Political Thinkers

    Av John Dunn, Ian Harris m. fl.

    Inbunden, 1997

    66992 kr

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    This important series presents critical appraisals of great political thinkers from the Greeks to present day. It focuses in particular on those thinkers who are generally recognized as being central to the evolution and development of political thought. The series will be indispensable for a clear …