Modern political thinkers and ideas: an historical introduction / Tudor Jones

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Sovereignty
Section A
Historical development of the concept
Essential aspects of sovereignty: meanings and usages
Legal sovereignty
Political sovereignty
Internal sovereignty
External sovereignty
Conclusion
Section B
Machiavelli on the Prince's power
Hobbes: the sovereignty of the Leviathan state
Historical context: political and intellectual
The case for absolute government
The power and authority of the sovereign
Locke on sovereignty as trusteeship
Historical context: political and intellectual
Underlying theoretical assumptions
Distinctive features of Locke's theory
Rousseau and popular sovereignty
Historical context: political and intellectual
The sovereign community
The preconditions of popular sovereignty
Further reading
Contemporary debates
Section C --
2. Political obligation
Section A -
Historical development of the concept
Voluntaristic theories
Teleological theories
Other 'duty' theories
Limits to political obligation
General justification for political obligation
Section B --
Hobbes's theory of political obligation: social contract and security
Historical context: political and intellectual
Hobbes's views of human nature and the state of nature
Hobbes's 'covenant'
Conclusion -
Locke's theory of political obligation: social contract, consent and natural rights
Historical context: political and intellectual
Locke's view of the state of nature
Locke's two-stage social contract
Locke's notion of consent
Conclusion
Rousseau's theory of political obligation: the general will and an ideal social contract
Historical context: political and intellectual. Rousseau's ideal social contract
Rousseau's concept of the general will
Conclusion -
Section C
Contemporary debates
Further reading
3. Liberty
Section A
Historical development of the concept: different traditions of interpreting liberty
Accounts of 'negative' liberty in the history of modern political thought
Accounts of 'positive' liberty in the history of political thought
Conclusion
Section B
Locke on liberty as a natural right
Historical context: political and intellectual
Natural and civil liberty: the distinction and connection between them
Locke's defence of religious freedom
Conclusion
Rousseau on moral and political freedom
Historical context: political and intellectual
The erosion of natural liberty
The two aspects of 'true' freedom: moral and civil
'Forcing' someone to be free
The critique of Rousseau's view of liberty
Conclusion --
John Stuart Mill's defence of personal liberty
Historical context: political and intellectual
Mill's main concerns in On Liberty
Mill's view of liberty
Mill on the importance of individuality
Limits to freedom of expression and action
Conclusion --
T.H. Green's positive view of liberty
Historical context: political and intellectual
Green's view of the social individual
Green's positive conception of liberty
Green's positive view of the state
Conclusion
Section C
Contemporary debates
Further reading --
4. Rights
Section A
Historical development of the concept of rights
Critiques of theories of the natural rights of man
Development of the concept of human rights in the twentieth century
Problems associated with the concept of human rights
Section B
Locke's theory of natural rights
Historical context: political and intellectual
Locke's conception of natural rights. Locke's account of the right to property
Conclusion --
Burke's case against the 'rights of man' and for'prescriptive' rights
Historical context: political and intellectual
Burke's critique of the doctrine of the 'rights of man'
Burke's defence of inherited, 'prescriptive' rights
Paine's defence of the rights of man
Historical context: political and intellectual
Paine's distinction between natural and civil rights
Paine's status as a radical popularizer of natural-rights theory
Paine's long-term influence
Section C
Contemporary debates
Further reading
5. Equality
Section A
Formal or foundational equality
Equality of opportunity
Equality of outcome
Section B
Rousseau's vision of democratic equality
Historical context: political and intellectual
The inequality of civil society
'Natural' and 'artificial' inequalities
The harmful effects of inequality
Rousseau's egalitarian remedy
Conclusion --
Wollstonecraft on equal rights for women
Historical context: political and intellectual
The case for equal civil and political rights for women
Conclusion -
John Stuart Mill on equality of opportunity and on equal status for women
Historical context: political and intellectual
Reward according to desert in industrial society
Equality of status for women
Conclusion
Marx on equality in a communist society
Historical context: political and intellectual
Marx's critique of liberal ideas of equality
Towards communist equality