David Miller
Born
in Watford, The United Kingdom
August 19, 1942
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Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
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2003
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31 editions
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Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration
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2016
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7 editions
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On Nationality
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published
1995
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10 editions
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Liberty Reader
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published
1991
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9 editions
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The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought
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published
1987
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8 editions
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Principles of Social Justice
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published
1976
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6 editions
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National Responsibility and Global Justice
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published
2007
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6 editions
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Anarchism (Modern Ideologies Series)
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Citizenship and National Identity
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published
2000
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8 editions
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Market, State, and Community: Theoretical Foundations of Market Socialism
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1989
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8 editions
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“We need political authority, then, because it gives us the security that allows us to trust other people, and in a climate of trust people are able to cooperate to produce all those benefits that Hobbes listed as signally lacking in the ‘natural condition’.”
― Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
― Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
“Our word ‘idiot’ comes from the Greek idiotes which was the term used to describe someone who lived an entirely private existence and took no part in the public life of the city. Most of us today are idiots, then, inasmuch as we fail to exercise our political intelligence.”
― Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
― Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
“his real point is that in the climate of fear that would follow the breakdown of authority, the kinder, more trusting, side of human nature would be obliterated. And from what we know of human behaviour when people are caught up in civil war and other situations in which their very survival is at stake, he seems to have been right. We”
― Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
― Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
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