In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument

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    Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server Configure custom proxy use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy. Colin Koopman - manuscript. The Morality, Politics, and Irony of War: Recovering Reinhold Niebuhr's Ethical Realism.

    Carlson - - Journal of Religious Ethics 36 4: The Challenge of Politics. Coady - - Oxford University Press. Santurri - - Journal of Religious Ethics 33 4: Dilemmas and Moral Realism.

    Nick Zangwill - - Utilitas 11 1: Political Realism and the Limits of Legitimacy. Sadly he did not live to complete it, but this book brings together many of its components.

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    Geoffrey Hawthorn has arranged the material to resemble as closely as possible Williams's original design and vision. He has provided both an introduction to Williams's political philosophy and a bibliography of his formal and informal writings on politics.

    Those who know the work of Bernard Williams will find here the familiar hallmarks of his writing--originality, clarity, erudition, and wit. Those who are unfamiliar with, or unconvinced by, a philosophical approach to politics, will find this an engaging introduction.

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    Both will encounter a thoroughly original voice in modern political theory and a searching approach to the shape and direction of liberal political thought in the past thirty-five years. Leia mais Leia menos. Detalhes do produto Capa comum: Seja o primeiro a avaliar este item.

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    The only reviewer so far asks, "What, no reviews yet? The arguments in the individual essays can be quite densely conducted at times, and the allusions to some other philosophical positions might be a bit opaque to readers who don't know these positions and I'm one of those , but when it matters, he says enough explicitly to enable us to follow his thought.

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    My only stylistic quibble is that after some complicated sentences, it not always easy to know what the antecedents of the pronouns in the subsequent sentences are. The large program of this series of essays, suggested in the book's subtitle, is the establishment empirically and logically of the priority of "realism" over moralism in political thinking. This is particularly important for liberal political thinking, for Williams seems to believe that liberals tend to rush to establish morality as the basis of their political thinking -- and usually a "universal" morality at that -- when Williams would insist that issues of arbitrary power and security must be acknowledged.

    He seems to be a Hobbesian to the extent that he believes that frequently and maybe usually the results of mankind's natural tendencies require amelioration, but he won't go all the way with Hobbes in seeing a moral stance as simply irrelevant to political considerations; rather, he believes moral stances and moral arguments must be carefully deployed and must acknowledge their rootedness not in some "universal" but in specific historical circumstances.