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Tables of Contents for The Common Sense of Politics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction to the 1996 Edition
xi
Preface
xxiii
Part One Ethics, Politics, and History
Introduction: Common Sense and Politics
3
15
The Good Life and the Good Society
18
12
The Political Animal
30
11
The Historical Enlargment of Our Vision of the Possible
41
9
Three Great Revolutions That Have Increased Our Political Wisdom
50
17
Part Two The New Confrontation: Political Wisdom and Anti-Political Folly
The Necessity of Government
67
16
Concerning the Goodness of the State
83
11
The Anti-Political Philosophers
94
13
Part Three The New Ideal: Classlessness
The Injustices to Which Government Is Prone
107
15
The Maximization, Through Justice, of Liberty and Equality for All
122
9
Political Liberty and Equality: the Answer to Oligarchs, Conservatives, and Reluctant Democrats
131
14
Economic Equality and Welfare: Democracy and Socialism
145
11
The Classless Establishment and the World Community
156
13
Part Four The Goal of Progress and the End of Revolution
Three Needed Developments: Prescriptions, Not Predictions
169
4
The Control of Technology
173
6
World Government
179
11
The Education of Mankind
190
5
Change, Revolution, and Progress
195
5
Our Limited Vision of the Possible
200
7
Notes
207
46
References
253
10
Index of Proper Names
263