Download or read book Political Argument (Routledge Revivals) written by Brian M. Barry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1965, Brian Barry's seminal work has occupied an important role in the revival of Anglo-American political philosophy. A number of ideas and terms in it have become part of the standard vocabulary, such as the distinction between ""ideal-regarding"" and ""want-regarding"" principles and the division of principles into aggregative and distributive. The book provided the first precise analysis of the concept of political values having trade-off relations and its analysis of the notion of the public interest has also been significant.