Sovereignty : an inquiry into the political good

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Foreword = xv
• Preface = xxiii
• Translator's Note = xxvii
• Introduction = 1
• The Who and the What = 3
• The primordial character of the problem of who decides = 5
• Has the question of what is a good act of government become otiose under democracy? = 8
• Suppose the problem of the What is insoluble = 10
• The dangers of an avowedly normative approach = 12
• PART I. AUTHORITY
• 1. The Essence of Politics = 17
• 2 Authority = 31
• The model of the voluntary association = 31
• The model of domination imposed from without = 34
• Definition of authority = 35
• Virtues of authority = 36
• Origin of sovereigns = 38
• The various kinds of associations = 40
• The surety = 41
• Authority and metaphor = 43
• The lightning conductor = 46
• Authority and the social tie = 47
• 3. The Office of Leadership and the Office of Adjustment = 48
• The bridge of Arcola and the oak of Vincennes = 48
• The fixity of the frame = 49
• The crown = 52
• Rex and Augur = 54
• The lesson of Bathsheba = 58
• The stabiliser = 61
• A principle of classification? = 65
• 4. The Group = 67
• The hearth = 69
• The milieu of existence = 71
• The team of action = 74
• The man of the project = 77
• The master builder = 78
• The psychological angle = 80
• Militiae and domi = 81
• 5. Of the Relations Between Authorities = 84
• Natural, institutional, and constraining authority = 85
• Various forms of the imperative = 87
• The link with authority = 89
• The link with authority is not a legal tie = 91
• Are men inconstant as regards authorities? = 92
• The weakness of the sovereign = 93
• ``The peers,'' = 94
• Those going up and those going down = 95
• The great sergeant-major = 98
• The sovereign and legal persons = 100
• PART II. THE POLITICAL GOOD
• 6. Of Benevolence in the Sovereign Will = 103
• The absolutism of the sovereign will = 105
• That the change of incumbent does not affect the problem of benevolence in the governing will = 108
• As to the qualities required in the governing will = 109
• The sovereign will generaised = 112
• The pair of sovereigns = 115
• The moral hold = 121
• The will for good and the intelligence = 123
• The sovereign and his model = 124
• 7. The Problem of the Common Good = 125
• First question : is the common good self-evident? = 126
• Second question : is the common good entirely subjective? = 128
• Third question : is the common good comprised in the good of individuals? = 130
• Fourth question : does the common good consist in the social tie itself? = 134
• Fifth question : is life in society the institutionalisation of trust? = 137
• Sixth question : can the political authority promote social friendship? = 139
• Uncertainty is the great principle of disassociation = 142
• The problem of obligations in a mobile society = 144
• 8. Of Social Friendship = 147
• Immobility as a principle = 147
• The prison of the corollaries = 151
• The common good and the collective social interest = 153
• Varieties of social friendship = 155
• The inevitable diversity of men = 158
• The nostalgia for the small community = 160
• Closed society and open social network = 163
• 9. Justice = 167
• Of what or of whom is justice the attribute? = 168
• First conception of justice : respect for rights = 169
• Prestige of the preservative notion = 171
• Second conception of justice : the perfect order = 173
• Should justice be identified with other qualities of social arrangements? = 175
• Justice as mere conformity to the rule laid down = 177
• The feeling for the just = 179
• The notion of relevance = 184
• The problems of justice = 185
• That resources are fruits and what follows from it = 190
• The share-out of the fruits within the team = 192
• That it is impossible to establish a just social order = 197
• In what does the rule of justice consist? = 198
• PART III. THE SOVEREIGN
• 10. On the Development of the Idea of the Sovereign Will = 201
• That absolute sovereignty is a modern idea = 202
• The monopolisation of sovereignty = 203
• The ladder of commands = 204
• The plenitude of power = 206
• The role of parliament in the concentration of authority = 208
• Monopolisation is achieved = 212
• Various types of superiority distinguished by L'Oyseau = 214
• Alliance of bourgeois ownership with the royal power = 216
• Description of sovereignty = 216
• Nationalism and Majestas = 217
• Limits of sovereign power = 219
• 11. The Sovereign as Legislator = 222
• The concrete advance of power = 222
• The advance of the royal prerogative = 224
• Absolute sovereignty = 225
• Sovereignty as attribute = 227
• The sovereign and the law = 230
• Justice and will = 231
• Why did will come to the front? = 233
• Sovereignty in itself = 234
• 12. The Theory of the Regulated will and ``Fortunate Powerlessness'' = 238
• The Ancien Regime rejected the despotic ideas in vogue today = 239
• When is the command legitimate? = 240
• The practical problem = 242
• Needed precautions = 243
• The fortunate powerlessness of kings = 244
• The regulated will = 247
• Vicar of God---and a minor = 249
• The absolute and the arbitrary = 251
• The two doctrines of resistance to royal arbitrariness = 253
• The ``feed-back,'' = 256
• PART IV. LIBERTY
• 13. The Political Consequences of Descartes = 261
• Man in general = 263
• That every ``idea of man'' is necessarily ambiguous = 264
• The Cartesian dichotomy = 269
• ``The political consequences of Descartes'' = 273
• Conceiving and understanding = 274
• Self-evidence in political theories = 275
• The problem of the orchard = 276
• Democracy of the understanding = 277
• 14. The Political Consequences of Hobbes = 279
• The state of society = 280
• The nature of man = 281
• The institution of the commonwealth = 284
• Fear and wisdom = 285
• The Diktat = 287
• Civil religion = 288
• The liberalism of Hobbes = 289
• Hobbes, father of political economy = 290
• Politics and hedonism = 291
• Necessity of political stability in the Hobbesian system = 293
• Hobbesian man and the citizen = 295
• The lesson of Hobbes = 296
• 15. Liberty = 299
• ``The chains,'' = 299
• Liberty as power : the classical definition = 301
• Liberty as a truncated circle = 303
• Liberty as means = 306
• Means as social grants = 309
• How liberty loses any common meaning = 311
• Liberty as dignity : ``No Man Is an Iland,'' = 314
• On obligations = 316
• The free man as volunteer = 318
• Libertarian harmony = 319
• Of arbitrariness in laws = 321
• The internal tension within the individual = 323
• Liberty as participation and as isolation = 325
• Babylon and Icaria = 328
• 16. Liberty of Opinion and Natural Light = 334
• What is called liberty of opinion is a free clash of opinions = 335
• The historical origins = 336
• Opinions and behaviours = 339
• The postulate of convergence = 340
• The postulate of divergence = 344
• The principle of dispersion = 348
• That moral relativism cannot lead to toleration = 349
• Panorama = 351
• Generating lines of various social philosophies = 355
• CONCLUSION = 357
• Political authorities not the sole subject of Political Science = 358
• The Rule of Law : what it means = 360
• The initiative : where it lies = 361
• The opportunity to generate a group = 362
• Rex : the stabiliser = 363
• State action : a companion to individual initiative = 364
• The unfreedom of government = 365
• The character of Political Science = 367
• Index = 369