1st Edition

Political Fraternity Democracy beyond Freedom and Equality

By Angel Puyol Copyright 2019
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Fraternity is a feeling, and a moral virtue, but fraternity is also a political concept. The French Revolution proclaimed an ethical and political ideal with its three principles: liberty, equality and fraternity. Since then, western political philosophy has gone to great lengths to analyse the liberty and equality, but has ignored, and even disdained, the third part of the revolutionary... Read more

Acknowledgement  Introduction  1. A very short history of political fraternity  2. What is political fraternity  3. Some current criticisms to political fraternity  4. Fraternal justice  5. Fraternal democracy  6. Global fraternity  Index

Biography

Angel Puyol is Professor of Political Philosophy at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.