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The Primacy of Persons in Politics

The Primacy of Persons in Politics : Empiricism and Political Philosophy. 政治における人間の卓越-経験主義と政治哲学

・ISBN 978-0-8132-2123-6 cloth

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著者・編者von Heyking, John / Heilke, T. (eds.),
出版社(Catholic U. America Pr., US)
出版年月2013
ページ数336 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<604-1510 604-L104>

解説

What is the nature of political activity? This question has vexed political thinkers since Plato wrote Statesman and remains challenging today. Contemporary intellectual categories obstruct individuals from understanding politics as a distinct species of activity with its own realm of expertise, modes and ends. Instead politics is poorly directed by notions of achieving a complete or final end of affairs. It tends to be conflated with other types of activities and realms of life, including economics, power-seeking, and law and procedure. As a result, politics often is untethered from morality.

Taking as their departure point the political-philosophical analyses of German scholar Tilo Schabert, the philosophical and empirical essays in this volume invite the reader to move beyond the sterile dichotomy of political activity as either pure will or as folded into a more manageable activity. The contributors argue that politics is a highly creative human activity that eludes capture within a final and static analytical framework, concluding that ethical political action is indeed part of the essence of politics.