Social and Political Philosophy, 1st edition

This anthology presents classical and contemporary readings on the major issues in social and political philosophy — obligation, democracy, rights, freedom, equality, justice,

• includes essays that explore traditional philosophical issues; and others that show how these issues apply to concrete political and social topics.

• contains edited court cases that show the importance of the theoretical essays for actual political and legal conflicts.

• gives special attention to the contributions of women to the topics and to problems of concern to women.

• includes an Introduction by the editors to the entire text, brief introductory comments to each essay, and biographical information about each author.