Marx

Explains how philosophers such as Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought; provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge and how this theory directed his provocative views on politics, ethics, and individual liberty; offers detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism; and reveals how Plato's philosophy stimulated the work of important modern thinkers such as Karl Popper, Martha Nussbaum, and Jacques Derrida.

Según explica Kant en su escrito titulado Teoría y práctica, “cuando la teoría sirve de poco para la práctica, esto no se debe achacar a la teoría, sino precisamente al hecho de que no había bastante teoría” (Ak. VIII 275). Uno de los objetivos de este libro es mostrar esta tesis kantiana, es decir, poner de manifiesto que la reflexión ética, el análisis social de los avances tecnológicos o el estudio histórico-axiológico de la construcción europea tienen un claro impacto sobre nuestra vida cotidiana, por mucho que algunos pudieran pensar lo contrario.

The eleven essays in this volume, supplemented by an editorial introduction, centre around three overlapping problems. First, why would a society want to limit its own sovereign power by imposing constitutional constraints on democratic decision-making? Second, what are the contributions of democracy and constitutions to efficient government? Third, what are the relations among democracy, constitutionalism, and private property? This comprehensive discussion of the problems inherent in constitutional democracy will be of interest to students in a variety of social sciences. It illuminates...