TY  - BOOK
AU  - Widerquist, Karl
AU  - McCall, Grant
AB  - This book looks at how modern philosophers pass on myths about prehistory.  Why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, and the primordial nature of inequality and war are popular topics in political philosophy, but are they being used as more than just illustrative examples? Does the best available evidence from archaeology and anthropology support or conflict with the stories being passed on by political philosophers?  This book presents a philosophical look at the origin of civilization, examining political theories to show how claims about prehistory are used and presents evidence that much of what we think we know about human origins comes not from scientific investigation but from the imagination of philosophers.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_625284
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625284
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 982228577
KW  - Political Science
KW  - State of nature
KW  - property rights
KW  - appropriation
KW  - social contract theory
KW  - state authority
KW  - inequality
KW  - equality
KW  - origin of government
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Hunter-gatherer
KW  - John Locke
KW  - Stateless society
KW  - Thomas Hobbes
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/446941a4-41be-46dd-adea-dada28358c37/625284.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31750
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
PY  - 2017-01-31
SN  - 9781474431200
TI  - Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophynull
ER  - 
