Prehistoric myths in modern political philosophy / / Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall.

• VerfasserIn: Widerquist, Karl,; McCall, Grant S.,
• TeilnehmendeR: McCall, Grant S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 May 2017).

How modern philosophers use and perpetuate myths about prehistory.<p>The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war - why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? And are they talking about a Stone Age that...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Modern political philosophy and prehistoric anthropology: some preliminary issues
• The Hobbesian hypothesis: how a colonial prejudice became an essential premise in the most popular justification of government
• John Locke and the Hobbesian hypothesis: how a similar colonial prejudice became an essential premise in the most popular justification of private property rights
• The Hobbesian hypothesis in eighteenth-century political theory
• The Hobbesian hypothesis in nineteenth-century political theory
• The Hobbesian hypothesis in contemporary political theory
• The Hobbesian hypothesis in anthropology
• Nasty and brutish? An empirical assessment of the violence hypothesis
• Are you better off now than you were 12,000 years ago? An empirical assessment of the Hobbesian hypothesis
• Implications
• References
• Index.