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100 1 _aWiderquist, Karl
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700 1 _aMcCall, Grant
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245 1 0 _aPrehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy
260 _bEdinburgh University Press
_c20170131
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520 _aThis 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.
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650 7 _aPolitics & government
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653 _aPolitical Science
653 _aState of nature
653 _aproperty rights
653 _aappropriation
653 _asocial contract theory
653 _astate authority
653 _ainequality
653 _aequality
653 _aorigin of government
653 _aAnthropology
653 _aHunter-gatherer
653 _aJohn Locke
653 _aStateless society
653 _aThomas Hobbes
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