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  1. Joint Commitment: How We Make the Social World.Margaret Gilbert - 2013 - New York, NY: Oup Usa.
    This new essay collection by distinguished philosopher Margaret Gilbert provides a richly textured argument for the importance of joint commitment in our personal and public lives. Topics covered by this diverse range of essays range from marital love to patriotism, from promissory obligation to the unity of the European Union.
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  • A Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society.Margaret Gilbert - 2006 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Does one have special obligations to support the political institutions of one’s own country precisely because it is one’s own? In short, does one have political obligations? This book argues for an affirmative answer, construing one’s country as a political society of which one is a member, and a political society as a special type of social group. The obligations in question are not moral requirements derived from general moral principles. They come, rather, from one’s participation in a special kind (...)
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  • Rousseau: a free community of equals.Joshua Cohen - 2010 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This book provides an analytical and critical appraisal of Rousseau's political thought that, while frank about its limits, also explains its enduring power.
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  • Rousseau's theodicy of self-love: evil, rationality, and the drive for recognition.Frederick Neuhouser - 2008 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and complex theory of the type of self-love (amour proper) that, for him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts. Amour proper is the passion that drives human individuals to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or love--the recognition--of their fellow beings. Neuhouser reconstructs Rousseau's understanding of what the drive for recognition is, why it is so problematic, and how its presence opens up far-reaching developmental possibilities for creatures that (...)
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  • Republicanism: a theory of freedom and government.Philip Pettit (ed.) - 1997 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in recent years. The latest addition to the acclaimed Oxford Political Theory series, Pettit's eloquent and compelling account opens with an examination of the traditional republican conception of freedom as non-domination, contrasting this with established negative and positive views of liberty. The first part of the book traces the rise and decline of this conception, displays its many attractions, and (...)
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  • Good natured: the origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals.Frans de Waal - 1996 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    Waal shows how ethical behavior is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait.
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  • (1 other version)Reflections on human nature.Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1961 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 67 (4):503-503.
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  • A Natural History of Human Morality.Michael Tomasello (ed.) - 2015 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
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  • Anthropologie et politique: les principes du système de Rousseau.Victor Goldschmidt - 1974 - Paris: Vrin.
    Dans ce monumental ouvrage devenu un classique du commentaire, Victor Goldschmidt, fidele a sa methode structurale et combattant l'idee selon laquelle la pensee de Rousseau ne serait pas organisee, demontre qu'il est possible d'expliciter les principes du systeme de Rousseau. Denoncant l'opposition recue entre la genese et la structure, l'auteur procede a un examen minutieux de la constitution de ces principes, en s'appuyant sur les deux Discours et l'Emile - Rousseau lui-meme disait que son systeme y etait formule -, mais (...)
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  • Rousseau: an introduction to his psychological, social, and political theory.N. J. H. Dent - 1988 - New York, NY, USA: Blackwell.
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  • (1 other version)Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government.Philip Pettit - 1999 - Philosophical Quarterly 49 (196):415-419.
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  • Jean-Fabien Spitz: La liberté politique.Jean-Fabien Spitz - 1998 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 1 (4):483-484.
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  • The natural goodness of man: on the system of Rousseau's thought.Arthur M. Melzer - 1990 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    The true key to all the perplexities of the human condition, Rousseau boldly claims, is the “natural goodness of man.” It is also the key to his own notoriously contradictory writings, which, he insists, are actually the disassembled parts of a rigorous philosophical system rooted in that fundamental principle. What if this problematic claim—so often repeated, but as often dismissed—were resolutely followed and explored? Arthur M. Melzer adopts this approach in The Natural Goodness of Man. The first two parts of (...)
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  • Aux limites de la volonté générale : silence, exil, ruse et désobéissance dans la pensée politique de Rousseau.Christopher Brooke - 2007 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 83 (4):425.
    Résumé — En réaction contre la diversité frappante des interprétations du concept de volonté générale chez Rousseau, cet article – qui entend aussi contribuer à cette interprétation – défend une lecture procédurale de la volonté générale qui serait donc le produit d’un vote majoritaire de l’assemblée ; il montre comment certains des passages du livre IV du Contrat social qui semblent se prêter le moins à cette interprétation peuvent cependant y être entièrement intégrés ; contre l’idée que la volonté générale (...)
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  • Rousseau: An Introduction to his Psychological, Social, and Political Theory.Peter de Marneffe & N. J. H. Dent - 1992 - Philosophical Review 101 (2):391.
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