A Textual Introduction To Social and Political TheoryRichard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross This book offers a stimulating new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them. The reader is drawn into a dialogue with the Western political tradition’s principal thinkers, whose ideas provide a common currency in which to debate the problems facing modern societies. Each of the twelve chapters combines extracts from two (or in one case three) political philosophers on a key political concept with a commentary essay. Each chapter does more than just introduce the reader to the classics; it also explains, via the commentary essay, the key concepts of political debate, and the historical contexts which led the thinkers to their different understandings of the nature of society. |
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Page 95
... labour , and by extension also own things that they take from the natural commons through their labour , as long as ' there is enough , and as good left in common for others ' ( section 27 ) , and as long as they do not take more than ...
... labour , and by extension also own things that they take from the natural commons through their labour , as long as ' there is enough , and as good left in common for others ' ( section 27 ) , and as long as they do not take more than ...
Page 107
... Labour : If he did , ' tis plain he desired the benefit of another's Pains , which he had no right to , and not the Ground which God had given him in common with others to labour on , and whereof there was as good left , as that already ...
... Labour : If he did , ' tis plain he desired the benefit of another's Pains , which he had no right to , and not the Ground which God had given him in common with others to labour on , and whereof there was as good left , as that already ...
Page 110
... labour should be able to over - ballance the Community of Land . For ' tis Labour indeed that puts the difference of value on every thing ; and let any one consider , what the difference is between an Acre of Land planted with Tobacco ...
... labour should be able to over - ballance the Community of Land . For ' tis Labour indeed that puts the difference of value on every thing ; and let any one consider , what the difference is between an Acre of Land planted with Tobacco ...
Contents
Aristotle and Aquinas on community and natural | 35 |
Machiavelli Milton and Hobbes on liberty | 63 |
Locke and Aristotle on property | 91 |
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