Dent argues that Rousseau's political ideas are the natural outgrowth of other interests and not simply the point to which all his other work tended. He shows how Rousseau's ideas concerning the sense of a common life and the importance of mutual respect to the flourishing of healthy political and social organizations may be linked to the psychological preoccupations of the man and his attitude…
This lucid book presents the discipline of sociology to both the general reader and the student. Viewing sociology in the humanist tradition, Berger points out its affinity to history and philosophy, as well as its need for scientific procedures.
Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognized as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and religious warfare of the mid-seventeenth century, it proposes a political theory that combines an unequivocal commitment to natural human liberty with the conviction tha…