Social Principles and the Democratic State

by Stanley I. Benn, R. S. Peters

This book, originally published in 1959, makes explicit the social principles which underlie the procedures and political practice of the modern democratic state. The authors take the view that in the modern welfare state there are porblems connected with the nature of law, with concepts like rights, justice, equality, property, punishment, responsibility and liberty and which modern philosophical techniques can illuminate.

Genres: Philosophy, Politics

406 pages, Hardcover

First published June 28, 1959

Reviews

[Daniel Clemence · Rating 3 out of 5]

A reasonable overview of political concepts from a philosophical view. The sort of book I would have read at university, which is what I suspect it is aimed at.

[Mjaballah]

Oh maaan, this book is thick, and very hard to swallow.... yet worth every headache...