Political Theory : : The Foundations of Twentieth-Century Political Thought / / Arnold Brecht.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Brecht, Arnold,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1959
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2311
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (630 p.)

In this distinguished work Arnold Brecht, who served under more than a dozen German Chancellors and whose work in defense of democracy received recognition by the Adenauer government in 1953, surveys the philosophical and scientific foundations of political theory in the twentieth century. His wide-...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Preface to the Fifth Printing
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introductory
• Part One: Systematic
• Chapter I. Theory of Scientific Method: Facts and Logic
• Chapter II. Theory of Scientific Method (Continued): Causality, Tests, Prediction
• Chapter III. Theory of Scientific Value Relativism (Value Alternativism)
• Chapter IV. Theory of Justice and the Impact on it of Scientific Method and Value Relativism
• Part Two: Genetic
• Chapter V. Precursors and Cousins
• Chapter VI. The Rise of Scientific Value Relativism
• Part Three: Polemic
• Chapter VII. The Revolt
• Chapter VIII. Twentieth-Century Attempts to Identify Highest Values
• Part Four: At the Borderline of Metaphysics
• Chapter IX. Factual, Not Logical, Links between Is and Ought
• Chapter X. Universal Postulates of Justice
• Chapter XI. Truth and Justice
• Chapter XII. Impossibility (Limited Possibility)
• Chapter XIII. Twentieth-Century Political Science and the Belief in God
• Results
• Appendix A. Note Regarding a Planned Second Volume
• Appendix B. Miscellaneous Notes on Special Questions and on Literature
• Supplementary Notes on Literature
• Index of Names
• Subject Index