The state of nature in comparative poltical thought : western and non-western perspectives
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The state of nature in comparative poltical thought : western and non-western perspectives
(Global encounters)
Lexington Books, c2014
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注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book addresses a fundamental concept in political thought-the "state of nature"-through a comparative and cross-cultural approach. Western social contract thinking usually falls along lines identified with scholars like Hobbes or Rousseau, with accordant debate over whether humans are good, bad, or just selfish; conflict prone or cooperative; egocentric or altruistic; with subordinate discussions about the proper limits of sovereign authority. Depending on how one views the "natural" condition of human beings and the communities which they build, various questions arise. What constitutes a "good" or natural political order? What is the best basis for understanding the "nature" of sovereignty or political legitimacy, and what is its future? In an age of increased global interaction and potential cultural, civilization-based, misunderstanding, this volume takes the Hobbesian rhetorical device of a pre-social contract "state of nature" and seeks to address this concept-and thereby, many of the aforementioned questions-in light of contributions from non-Western thinkers. In our globalizing age when cultures and peoples increasingly talk and interact, it is not viable to use only Western political thinkers to address allegedly universal concepts. So we overtly seek to break open the frame of reference for any future discussion of the "state of nature."
This volume adds to the emerging body of work grouped under the heading "comparative political thought" and serves as a model for how key political concepts may be addressed in a comparative and cross-civilizational manner. Chapters engage Chinese, Indic, Polynesian, Jewish, Babylonian, and Islamic interpretations of this fundamental question of politics. In addressing competing interpretations of the state of nature, the exclusionary hegemonic aspects of the Western canon may be both exposed and potentially reconciled with alternative visions of political behavior, legitimacy, justice, rights, and "appropriate" social and political behavior.
目次
Introduction: Comparative States of Nature
Russell Arben Fox
Part One: The State of Nature and Applications in Chinese Thought
Chapter 1. Self-Transformation and Civil Society: Lockean vs. Confucian
Sungmoon Kim, City University of Hong Kong
Chapter 2. Han Feizi's Philosophical Psychology: Human Nature, Scarcity, and the
NeoDarwinian Consensus
Owen Flanagan and Jing Hu, Duke University
Chapter 3. The Confucian Tradition, Nature, and Civil Education
Russell Arben Fox, Friends University
Chapter 4. States of Nature: Counter-Confucianism and the Daoist Encounter with Liberalism
Eric Goodfield, American University, Beirut
Chapter 5. Mozi, Hobbes, Locke and the State of Nature
Al Martinich and Siwing Tsoi, University of Texas
Chapter 6. Chinese Sage Kings and the Hobbesian State of Nature: Bridging Comparative
Political Thought and International Relations Theory
Jon D. Carlson, University of California, Merced
Part Two: The State of Nature in Islam, India and Beyond
Chapter 7. States of Nature and Islands of Politics: Animality, Death, Colonialism
Murad Idris, Penn University, Cornell University
Chapter 8. Ibn Khaldoun: Writing from the Margin-'The State of Nature'-To Remain There.
Magid Shihade, Birzeit University
Chapter 9. The State of Nature and Domesticated Differences in Ancient Indian Political
Thought: A Historical-Comparative Approach
Stuart Gray, University of California, Santa Barbara, Johns Hopkins University
Chapter 10. On Matsyanyaya: The State of Nature in Indian Thought (from Asian Philosophy)
David Slakter, University of Central Oklahoma
Chapter 11. I'd Rather Just Devolve, Thank You: Enkidu, Gilgamesh, and an Ambiguous State
of Nature
Stefan Dolgert, Brock University
Chapter 12. The Problem of the State of Nature in Medieval Jewish Political Philosophy
Abraham Melamed, University of Haifa
Chapter 13. The Nature of the State without the State of Nature: Micronesia and Polynesia
Michael Stoil, University of Guam
Conclusion. States of Nature: Consilience, Syncretism, and Challenges for Comparative Political Thought
Jon D. Carlson, University of California, Merced
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