The Politics Of Perfection
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The Politics Of Perfection
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Author : Kimberly Hurd Hale
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016
The Politics Of Perfection written by Kimberly Hurd Hale and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in literature categories.
This book explores the relationship between modern technological progress and classical liberalism. The compatibility of classical liberalism and technology is questioned, using fiction and film as a window into Western society's views on politics, economics, religion, technology, and the family.
Liberalism Without Perfection
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Author : Jonathan Quong
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
Liberalism Without Perfection written by Jonathan Quong and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Philosophy categories.
Liberalism without Perfection offers an introduction to the debate between liberal perfectionism and political liberalism. This book is a new account and defence of Rawlsian political liberalism, one of the most discussed, but widely misunderstood and criticized theories in contemporary political theory.
The Politics Of Faith And The Politics Of Scepticism
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Author : Michael Oakeshott
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
The Politics Of Faith And The Politics Of Scepticism written by Michael Oakeshott and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Michael Oakeshott, the foremost British political philosopher of the twentieth century, died in 1990, leaving a substantial collection of unpublished material. Yale University Press is continuing to make available the best of these illuminating works. In this polished and hitherto unknown work, Oakeshott argues that modern politics was constituted out of a debate, persistent through centuries of European political experience down to our own day, over the question "What should governments do?" According to Oakeshott, two different answers have dominated our thought since the fifteenth century. One, exemplified by such thinkers as Rousseau and Marx, expresses a belief in the capacity of human beings to control, design, and monitor all aspects of social and political life, a belief fostered by the intoxicating increase in power available to governments in modern times. On the other hand, sceptics such as Montaigne, Pascal, and Hobbes argued that governments cannot, in principle, produce perfection and that we should prevent concentrations of power that may result in tyrannies that oppress the dignity of the human spirit. Oakeshott exposes the pitfalls of both positions and shows the value of a middle ground that incorporates scepticism with enough faith to avoid total quietism. Readers of Oakeshott will find here the thinking that lies behind his famous definition of politics as "the pursuit of intimations.".
Nietzsche And The Political
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Author : Daniel Conway
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-07-26
Nietzsche And The Political written by Daniel Conway and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-26 with Philosophy categories.
In this study Daniel Conway shows how Nietzsche's political thinking bears a closer resemblance to the conservative republicanism of his predecessors than to the progressive liberalism of his contemporaries. The key contemporary figures such as Habermas, Foucault, McIntyre, Rorty and Rawls are also examined in the light of Nietzsche's political legacy. Nietzsche and the Political also draws out important implications for contemporary liberalism and feminist thought, above all showing Nietzsche's continuing relevance to the shape of political thinking today.
Flawed Perfection
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Author : Jeffrey A. Brauch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Flawed Perfection written by Jeffrey A. Brauch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Religion categories.
In order to understand the problems that face the world, you have to understand human nature...It is only by understanding our nature correctly that we can recognize our profound value as God's good creation despite our fallen condition, and uphold our equal human rights regardless of our differences. --Publisher
The Politics Of Human Frailty
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Author : Christopher J. Insole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Politics Of Human Frailty written by Christopher J. Insole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Religion categories.
The latest book in the Faith in Reason series provides a theological defence of a strand of political liberalism; a strand informed by the theological conviction that the human person is a creature incapable of its own perfection, although nonetheless called to and made for this perfection. Insole puts a question mark against easy caricatures of "liberalism", which tend to describe it as individualistic, hubristic and relativist. By attending to figures such as Edmund Burke, Lord Acton and John Rawls, Insole shows that a passion to protect the individual within liberal institutions arises not from an illusory sense of self-sufficiency, but from an insight into our fallen condition, characterised by frailty, vulnerability, yet also from a hope and intimation of redemption and an eternal divine order. Taking up the emphasis Rawls places on the wars of religion in 16th and 17th century Europe as the historical impetus for an emerging political liberalism, Insole pays careful attention to the work of Richard Hooker. After attending to this theologico-political seed-bed of liberalism, Insole investigates how the notions of 'liberty' employed in England, America and France have some quite distinct theological lineages, and separates the political liberalism he defends from these over-zealous appropriations that emanate, for instance, from American Presidents. On the basis of his theological defence, he also critiques the Radically Orthodox attempt to leap beyond political liberalism to a more enchanted space, showing the Radical Orthodoxy project to be politically naï(-15441)ve, utopian and dangerous, in ways well understood by the tradition of political liberalism defended.
The Politics Of Imperfection
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Author : Anthony Quinton
language : en
Publisher: London ; Boston : Faber and Faber
Release Date : 1978
The Politics Of Imperfection written by Anthony Quinton and has been published by London ; Boston : Faber and Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Conservatism categories.
The Politics
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Author : Aristotle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-01-21
The Politics written by Aristotle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-21 with Political Science categories.
Aristotle's philosophy stresses biology, instead of mathematics like Plato. He believed the world was made up of individuals (substances) occurring in fixed natural kinds (species). Each individual has built-in patterns of development, which help it grow toward becoming a fully developed individual of its kind. Political science is the practical science par excellence. It is the architectonic science, Aristotle argues, concerned with the human good, or happiness, generally, and therefore the one that orders all other sciences, such as medicine or farming. God is absolute self-consciousness. In determining the content of divine thought, Aristotle uses a form of argumentation known in metaphysics as the doctrine of metaphysical perfection. God is conceived as a perfect being, and Aristotle simply carries the doctrine of God's perfection to its logical conclusion.
The Case Against Perfection
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Author : Michael J Sandel
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
The Case Against Perfection written by Michael J Sandel and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Philosophy categories.
Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature—to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. What is wrong with re-engineering our nature? The Case against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda. In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable. Addressing them is the task of this book, by one of America’s preeminent moral and political thinkers.
Perfection And Disharmony In The Thought Of Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Author : Jonathan Marks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-06
Perfection And Disharmony In The Thought Of Jean Jacques Rousseau written by Jonathan Marks and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-06 with Philosophy categories.
In Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jonathan Marks offers an interpretation of the philosopher's thought and its place in the contemporary debate between liberals and communitarians. Against prevailing views, he argues that Rousseau's thought revolves around the natural perfection of a naturally disharmonious being. At the foundation of Rousseau's thought he finds a natural teleology that takes account of and seeks to harmonize conflicting ends. The Rousseau who emerges from this interpretation is a radical critic of liberalism who is nonetheless more cautious about protecting individual freedom than his milder communitarian successors. Marks elaborates on the challenge that Rousseau poses to liberals and communitarians alike by setting up a dialogue between him and Charles Taylor, one of the most distinguished ethical and political theorists at work today.