Rationality in Politics and Its Limits

ISBN-13: 9781138941793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 158 str.

Terry Nardin

Opis

Is political rationality a matter of economic calculation, moral judgment, cultural interpretation, scientific demonstration, or pragmatic realism? How can these aspects of politics be reconciled? This book explores the understanding of rationality in politics and the relations between different approaches to rationality. Among the topics considered are the limits of rationality, the role of imagination and emotion in politics, the meaning of political realism, the nature of political judgment, and the relationship between theory and practice. This book 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).