Rationality in Politics and Its Limits

ISBN-13: 9781138306349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 158 str.

Terry Nardin

Opis

This book explores the understanding of rationality in politics and the relations between different approaches to rationality. It was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

Spis treści

Introduction: Rationality in politics and its limits  1. Political philosophy and the attraction of realism  Reply - Realism and imagination: a response to Kelly  2. Hobbes and human irrationality  Reply - Sovereigns and citizens: a response to Field  3. Reason, statecraft and the art of war: a politique reassessment  Reply - Morality and contingency: a response to Jones  4. Thumos and rationality in Plato’s Republic  Reply - Argument and imagination: a reply to Tarnopolsky  5. ‘A habitual disposition to the good’: on reason, virtue and realism  Reply - Reason, faith and modernity: a response to Pabst  6. Oakeshott on theory and practice  Reply - Oakeshott on the theory-practice problem: a reply to Terry Nardin  7. Franz Jägerstätter as social critic  Reply - The social critic and universal morality: a response to Finn  Rebuttal to Roff

O autorze

Terry Nardin is Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (1983) and The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (2001), and editor of Michael Oakeshott’s Cold War Liberalism (2014).