This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellect...(展开全部)

This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early-modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellec...(展开全部)

This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early-modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellec...(展开全部)

This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellect...(展开全部)

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading political thinkers of the twentieth century, and his work continues to attract admiration and debate. In Isaiah Berlin: Liberty, Pluralism and Liberalism, George Crowder provides both an accessible introduction to Berlin's ideas and an original contribution to political theory. Berlin's range of interests and learning was vast but united by...(展开全部)

约翰·罗尔斯，美国哲学家与政治理论家，1921年出生于巴尔的摩，1950年获普林斯顿大学博士学位，先后执教于普林斯顿大学、康奈尔大学、麻省理工学院和哈佛大学，担任过美国政治与社会哲学家协会主席以及美国哲学协会东部地区主席，并荣获1999年度美国国家人文科学奖章。罗尔斯的哲学捍卫了洛克、卢梭和康德所开创的社会契约传统，复活了人们对于系统政治理论的兴趣，其核心信念是政治权利与基本公民自由的神圣性。他的主要著作还有《正义论》（1971）、《人民的法律》（1999）和《作为公平的正义》（2001）等。 本书继续并修正了罗尔斯在《正义论》中所提出的公正观念，从根本上改变了对它的哲学阐释。在《正义论》中，罗尔斯假定在“秩序良好的社会”里，存在着相对稳定和同质的基本道德信念，人们对于什么是善的生活有着广泛一致意见。然而在现代民主社会中，互不相容、无法调和的宗教、...(展开全部)