EAN: 9783319839950

TECHNOLOGY AND THE END OF AUTHORITY - JASON KUZ...

This book provides a critical survey of Western political philosophy from a classical liberal
perspective  paying particular attention to knowledge problems and the problem of political
authority. Its central argument is that the state is a tool for solving a historically changing
set of problems  and that  as a tool  the state is frequently deficient on both moral and
practical grounds. Government action can be considered as a response to a set of problems  all
of which may conceivably be solved in some other manner as well. The book examines in
particular the relationship between the state and technology over time. Technological
developments may make the state more or less necessary over time  which is a consideration that
is relatively new in the history of political philosophy  but increasingly important. The book
is organized chronologically and concludes with an essay on trends in the history of political
philosophy  as well as its surprisingly bright prospects for future development.

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