Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editor’s Foreword ix
4. Introductory Remarks xvii
5. Texts Cited xix
6. Introduction: Remarks on Political Philosophy 1
7. lectures on hobbes
8. lecture I: Hobbes’s Secular Moralism and the Role of His Social Contract 23
9. lecture II: Human Nature and the State of Nature 41
10. lecture III: Hobbes’s Account of Practical Reasoning 54
11. lecture IV: The Role and Powers of the Sovereign 73
12. appendix: Hobbes Index 94
13. lectures on locke
14. lecture I: His Doctrine of Natural Law 103
15. lecture II: His Account of a Legitimate Regime 122
16. lecture III: Property and the Class State 138
17. lectures on hume
18. lecture I: “Of the Original Contract” 159
19. lecture II: Utility, Justice, and the Judicious Spectator 174
20. lectures on rousseau
21. lecture I: The Social Contract: Its Problem 191
22. lecture II: The Social Contract: Assumptions and the General Will (I) 214
23. lecture III: The General Will (II) and the Question of Stability 229
24. lectures on mill
25. lecture I: His Conception of Utility 251
26. lecture II: His Account of Justice 266
27. lecture III: The Principle of Liberty 284
28. lecture IV: His Doctrine as a Whole 297
29. appendix: Remarks on Mill’s Social Theory 314
30. lectures on marx
31. lecture I: His View of Capitalism as a Social System 319
32. lecture II: His Conception of Right and Justice 335
33. lecture III: His Ideal: A Society of Freely Associated Producers 354
34. appendixes 373
35. Four Lectures on Henry Sidgwick 375
36. Five Lectures on Joseph Butler 416
37. Course Outline 458
38. Index 460