Political Justice

Preface

Book I: Political Institutions

1. Introduction
2. Reading Political History
3. The Foundation of Morality
4. Moral Improvement
5. The Influence of Institutions Refuted
6. Perpetual Human Improvement
7. Perception and Liberty
8. Luxury and Decadence

Book II: Principles of Society

1. Introduction
2. Morality and Justice
3. Suicide and Lawful Killing
4. Duty
5. Equality
6. Human Rights
7. The Value of Private Opinion

Book III: Principles of Government

1. Introduction
2. The Social Contract
3. Political Promises
4. Political Authority
5. The Purpose of Legislation
6. Obedience
7. Forms of Government

Appendix to Book III: Revolutions

8. Organised Opposition
9. Revolution
10. Instituting Reform

Book IV: Legislative and Executive Power

1. Introduction
2. Education of the Elite
3. Life of the Elite
4. Benevolent Dictatorships
5. Ministries
6. Subjects and Citizens
7. The Monarch
8. Limited Executives
9. Titles
10. High Culture and Government
11. The Features of Democracy
12. War
13. Democracies and War
14. Militaries
15. The Composition of Government
16. Parliaments

Appendix to Book IV: Further Remarks on Political Society

17. Freedom of Religion
18. Loyalties
19. Libels
20. National Education
21. The Fraud of Economics

Book V: Crime and Punishment

1. Introduction
2. Coercion and Ethics
3. Policing
4. The Categorisation of Crime
5. The Path to Anarchy
6. Evidence
7. The Institutions of Law
8. Pardons

Book VI: Property and Technology

1. Introduction
2. Property and Income
3. Luxury and Poverty
4. Sloth
5. Permanency and Vice
6. Population
7. The Impracticability of Equality

Conclusions

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Acknowledgements

Alexander J. Illingworth

Paperback

978-1-910524-14-5

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English

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Book

2018-10-29

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