The politics book / Paul Kelly, consultant editor ; [contributors] : Rod Dacombe, John Farndon, A.S. Hodson, Jesper Johnsøn, Niall Kishtainy, James Meadway, Anca Pusca, Marcus Weeks.
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DK Publishing, Inc.
- ISBN 9781465473905
- 1st American ed.
- Publicerad: New York : DK Publishing, 2013
- Engelska 352 pages
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Serie: Big ideas simply explained.
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- Ancient political thought, 800 BCE-30 CE : If your desire is for good, the people will be good: Confucius ; The art of war is of vital importance to the state: Sun Tzu ; Plans for the country are only to be shared with the learned: Mozi ; Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils: Plato ; Man is by nature a political animal: Aristotle ; A single wheel does not move: Chanakya ; If evil ministers enjoy safety and profit, this is the beginning of downfall: Han Fei Tzu ; The government is bandied about like a ball: Cicero -- Medieval politics, 30 CE-1515 CE : If justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers?: Augustine of Hippo ; Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you: Muhammad ; The people refuse the rule of virtuous men: Al-farabi ; No free man shall be imprisoned, except by the law of the land: Barons of King John ; For war to be just, there is required a just cause: Thomas Aquinas ; To live politically means living in accordance with good laws: Giles of Rome ; The Church should devote itself to imitating Christ and give up its secular power: Marsilius Padua ; Government prevents injustice, other than such as it commits itself: Ibn Khaldun ; A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word: Niccolò Machiavelli -- Rationality and enlightenment, 1515-1770 : In the beginning everything was common to all? Francisco de Vitoria ; Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth: Jean Bodin ; The natural law is the foundation of human law: Francisco Suárez ; Politics is the art of associating men: Johannes Althusius ; Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves: Hugo Grotius ; The condition of man is a condition of war: Thomas Hobbes ; The end of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom: John Locke ; When legislative and executive powers are united in the same body, there can be no liberty: Montesquieu ; Independent entrepreneurs make good citizens: Benjamin Franklin -- Revolutionary thoughts, 1770-1848 : to renounce liberty is to renounce being a man: Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; No generally valid principle of legislation can be based on happiness: Immanuel Kant ; The passions of individuals should be subjected: Edmund Burke ; Rights of dependent on property are the most precarious: Thomas Paine ; All men are created equal: Thomas Jefferson ; Each nationality contains its center of happiness within itself: Johann Gottfried Herder ; Government has but a choice of evils: Jeremy Bentham ; The people have a right to keep and bear arms: James Madison ; The most respectable women are the most oppressed: Mary Wollstonecraft ; The slave feels self-existence to be something external: Georg Hegel ; War is the continuation of Politik by other means: Carl von Clausewitz ; Abolition and the union cannot coexist: John C. Calhoun ; A state too extensive in itself ultimately falls into decay: Simón Bolívar ; An educated and wise government recognizes the developmental needs of its society: José María Luis Mora ; The tendency to attack "the family" is a symptom of social chaos: Auguste Comte -- The rise of the masses, 1848-1910 : Socialism is a new system of serfdom: Alexis de Tocqueville ; Say not I, but we: Giuseppe Mazzini ; That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time: John Stuart Mill ; No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent: Abraham Lincoln ; Property is theft: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ; The privileged man is a man depraved in intellect and heart: Mikhail Bakunin ; That government is best which governs not at all: Henry David Thoreau ; Communism is the riddle of history solved: Karl Marx ; The men who proclaimed the republic became the assassins of freedom: Alexander Herzen ; We must look for a central axis for our nation: Ito Hirobumi ; The will to power: Friedrich Nietzsche ; It is the myth that is alone important: Georges Sorel ; We have to take working men as they are: Eduard Bernstein ; The disdain of our formidable neighbor is the greatest danger for Latin America: José Martí ; It necessary to dare in order to succeed: Peter Kropotkin ; Either women are to be killed, or women are to have the vote: Emmeline Pankhurst ; It is ridiculous to deny the existence of a Jewish nation: Theodor Herzl ; Nothing will avail to save a nation whose workers have decayed: Beatrice Webb ; Protective legislation in America is shamefully inadequate: Jane Addams ; Land to the tillers!: Sun Yat-Sen ; The individual is a single cog in an ever-moving mechanism: Max Weber.
- The clash of ideologies, 1910-1945 : Nonviolence is the first article of my faith: Mahatma Gandhi; Politics begin where the masses are: Vladimir Lenin ; The mass strike results from social conditions with historical inevitability: Rosa Luxemburg ; An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last: Winston Churchill ; The Fascist conception of the state is all-embracing: Giovanni Gentile ; The wealthy farmers must be deprived of the sources of their existence: Joseph Stalin ; If the end justifies the means, what justifies the end?: Leon Trotsky ; We will unite Mexicans by giving guarantees to the peasant and the businessman: Emiliano Zapata ; War is a racket: Smedley D. Butler ; Sovereignty is not given, it is taken: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ; Europe has been left without a moral code: José Ortega y Gasset ; We are 400 million people asking for liberty: Marcus Garvey ; India cannot really be free unless separated from the British Empire: Manabendra Nath Roy ; Sovereign is he who decides on the exception: Carl Schmitt ; Communism is as bad as imperialism: Jomo Kenyatta ; The state must be conceived of as an "educator": Antonio Gramsci ; Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun: Mao Zedong -- Postwar politics, 1945-present : The chief evil is unlimited government: Friedrich Hayek ; Parliamentary government and rationalist politics do not belong to the same system: Michael Oakeshott ; The objective of the Islamic jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system: Abul Ala Maududi ; There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men: Ayn Rand ; Every known and established fact can be denied: Hannah Arendt ; What is a woman?: Simone de Beauvoir ; No natural object is solely a resource: Arne Naess ; We are not anti-white, we are against white supremacy: Nelson Mandela ; Only the weak-minded believe that politics is a place of collaboration: Gianfranco Miglio ; During the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed tend to become oppressors: Paul Freire ; Justice is the first virtue of social institutions: John Rawls ; Colonialism is violence in its natural state: Frantz Fanon ; The ballot or the bullet: Malcolm X ; We need to "cut off the king's head" : Michel Foucault ; Liberators do not exist; the people liberate themselves: Che Guevara ; Everybody has to make sure that the rich folks are happy: Noam Chomsky ; Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance: Martin Luther King ; Perestroika unites socialism with democracy: Mikhail Gorbachev ; The intellectuals erroneously fought Islam: Ali Shariati ; The hellishness of war drives us to break with every restraint: Michael Walzer ; No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified: Robert Nozick ; No Islamic law says violate women's rights: Shirin Ebadi ; Suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation: Robert Pape -- Glossary.
- "Exploring more than 100 big ideas on topics as diverse as the rule of law, the extent of liberty, and the justification of warfare, [this book] takes you on a journey through the history of politics, from the influential theories of ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia to modern concepts voiced by today's brightest political thinkers."--Front jacket flap.
Ämnesord
- Politisk filosofi (sao)
- Internationell politik (sao)
- Politisk teologi -- historia (sao)
- World politics (LCSH)
Genre
- History. (fast)
Personnamn
- Kauṭalya.
- Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316.
- Konfucius, 551-479 f.Kr
- Platon, 427-347 f.Kr.
- Aristoteles, 384-322 f.Kr.
- Han, Fei, d. 233 f.Kr.
- Muhammed, profet, d. 632
- Fārābī, d. 950
- Thomas av Aquino, helgon, ca 1225-1274
- Marsilius av Padua, ca 1275-1343
- Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
- Mo, Di, active 400 B.C.
- Madison, James, 1751-1836.
- Mora, José María Luis, 1794-1850.
- Itō, Hirobumi, 1841-1909.
- Zapata, Emiliano, 1879-1919.
- Butler, Smedley D. (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940.
- Roy, M. N. (Manabendra Nath), 1887-1954.
- Miglio, Gianfranco.
- Sun, Zi, ca 500 f.Kr.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106-43 f.Kr.
- Augustinus, Aurelius, helgon, 354-430
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
- Vitoria, Francisco de, 1486?-1546
- Bodin, Jean, 1530-1596
- Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617
- Althusius, Johannes, 1557-1638
- Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
- Locke, John, 1632-1704
- Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, 1689-1755
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 1744-1803
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
- Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
- Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830
- Comte, Auguste, 1798-1857
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859
- Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872
- Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 1809-1865
- Bakunin, Michail Aleksandrovič, 1814-1876
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
- Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870
- Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844-1900
- Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922
- Bernstein, Eduard, 1850-1932
- Martí, José, 1853-1895
- Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevič, 1842-1921
- Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928
- Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904
- Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925
- Weber, Max, 1864-1920
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹič, 1870-1924
- Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
- Gentile, Giovanni, 1875-1944
- Stalin, Josef, 1878-1953
- Trotskij, Lev, 1879-1940
- Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938
- Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
- Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937
- Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
- Hayek, Friedrich A. von, 1899-1992
- Oakeshott, Michael Joseph, 1901-1990
- Mawdudi, Sayyid Abu al-Ala, 1903-1979
- Rand, Ayn, 1905-1982
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
- Næss, Arne, 1912-2009
- Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
- Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
- Rawls, John, 1921-2002
- Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
- Guevara, Ernesto, 1928-1967
- Chomsky, Noam, 1928-
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1929-1968
- Gorbačev, Michail Sergeevič, 1931-2022
- Shariati, Ali, 1933-1977
- Walzer, Michael, 1935-
- Nozick, Robert, 1938-2002
- ʻIbādī, Shīrīn, 1947-
- Pape, Robert Anthony, 1960-
- Vitoria, Francisco de, 1486?-1546
- Walzer, Michael, 1935-
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- 320.01 (DDC)
- Oc:d (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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