Karl Widerquist, Grant S. McCall

Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

Challenging Stone Age Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war - why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? And are they talking about a Stone Age that really happened, or is it just a convenient thought experiment to illustrate their points?

Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall take a philosophical look at the origin of civilisation, examining political theories to show how claims about prehistory are used. Drawing on the best available evidence from archaeology and anthropology, they show that much of what we think we know about human origins comes from philosophers' imagination, not scientific investigation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474431200
• Artikelnr.: 72421878

Autorenporträt

Karl Widerquist is Professor of Political Philosophy at SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy(with Grant S. McCall, Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research (with Yannick Vanderborght, Jose Noguera, and Jurgen De Wispelaere, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World (with Michael W. Howard, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2012), The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee (with Michael Anthony Lewis and Steven Pressman, Ashgate, 2005) and co-author of Economics for Social Workers: The Application of Economic Theory to Social Policy and the Human Services (with Michael Anthony Lewis, Columbia University Press, 2002). He was a founding editor of the journal Basic Income Studies, and he has published dozens of scholarly articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Modern political philosophy and prehistoric anthropology: Some
preliminary issues
3. The Hobbesian hypothesis: How a colonial prejudice became an
essential premise in most popular justification of government
sovereignty
4. Locke employs the Hobbesian hypothesis: How very much the same
colonial prejudice became an essential premise in the most popular
justification of private property rights
5. The Hobbesian hypothesis in seventeenth century political theory
6. The Hobbesian hypothesis in nineteenth century political theory
7. The Hobbesian Hypothesis in Contemporary Political Theory
8. The Violence Hypothesis in Anthropology
9. Nasty & Brutish? Evidence for and against the violence hypothesis
10. Are you better off now that you were 12,000 years ago? An empirical
assessment of the Hobbesian Hypothesis
11. Implications: What's left of contractarianism and propertarianism
without the Hobbesian hypothesis?
Index
Online Appendix:
* Appendix to Chapter 2
* Appendix to Chapter 5
* Appendix to Chapter 6
* Appendix to Chapter 7
* Appendix to Chapter 8