The idea of the state

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Table of Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Part 1 The Basic Idea......Page 17
1 The State as a Structure of Intelligibility......Page 19
1. Two ways of thinking about politics......Page 20
2. State and government......Page 24
3. Institutions and intelligibility......Page 29
4. The priority of ideas in a world of cause and effect......Page 40
5. The several senses of the ontological state......Page 44
6. Political practice and the theory of the state......Page 49
Part 2 Philosophical Foundations of the State......Page 55
2 Politics, Prudence and Philosophy......Page 57
1. Theories of government and the philosophy of the state......Page 58
2. Prudential and philosophical argument......Page 66
3. Hobbesian metaphysics......Page 74
4. The impossibility of a \"political\" conception......Page 88
5. The reasonable and the rational......Page 99
6. Reasons......Page 106
3 The Post-Kantian Convergence......Page 110
1. Coherence and ontology......Page 111
2. Objectivity......Page 121
3. The unity of philosophy......Page 133
4. Human action and ontological commitment......Page 143
5. Social institutions and the idea of the state......Page 154
Part 3 The Idea of the State......Page 163
4 The Omnicompetent State: Toleration and Limited Government......Page 165
1. The argument from impossibility......Page 167
2. Liberal toleration......Page 179
3. The omnicompetent state......Page 192
4. Ordinary politics and political philosophy......Page 203
5 The Absolute State: Authority and Resistance......Page 210
1. The autonomy argument......Page 211
2. Obligation, ought and duty......Page 216
3. The idea of political obligation......Page 228
4. The absolute state......Page 242
5. Resistance......Page 248
6. The problem of civil disobedience......Page 270
6 The Organic State: Democracy and Freedom......Page 282
1. Inequality and democratic government......Page 283
2. The organic state......Page 298
3. Universalization......Page 309
4. Moral freedom and the state......Page 319
Index......Page 341