Political Philosophy James C. Scott - 2530 Words

James C. Scott has been sitting on these ideas of anarchism for over 20 years before putting out the book Two Cheers for Anarchism and the viewpoints are still relevant today. It has been my favorite book we have read and discussed this semester due to the fact that everyone at a point in their life has had certain ideas or has looked at the world in a way that wasn’t going to be universally liked. That’s what Scott has done and on the first page of the preface he writes, â€Å"Again and again over three decades, I found myself having said something in a seminar discussion or having written something and then catching myself thinking, Now that’s what an anarchist would argue† (ix). There are some conflicting views in Two Cheers for Anarchism and Political Philosophy: An Introduction. Jason Brennan, the author of Political Philosophy: An Introduction, is a book that goes over many ideas like Scott’s, but also includes the theories of other philosophers. 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