Political philosophy seems both impossible to do and impossible to avoid. Impossible to do, because we cannot agree on a single set of political principles. Impossible to avoid, because we're always living with some kind of political system, and thus some set of principles. So, if we can't do the philosophy, but can't escape the politics, what are we to do? Jonathan Floyd argues that the answer lies in political philosophy's deepest methodological commitments. First, he shows how political philosophy is practiced as a kind of 'thinking about thinking'. Second, he unpicks the different types of…mehr
Political philosophy seems both impossible to do and impossible to avoid. Impossible to do, because we cannot agree on a single set of political principles. Impossible to avoid, because we're always living with some kind of political system, and thus some set of principles. So, if we can't do the philosophy, but can't escape the politics, what are we to do? Jonathan Floyd argues that the answer lies in political philosophy's deepest methodological commitments. First, he shows how political philosophy is practiced as a kind of 'thinking about thinking'. Second, he unpicks the different types of thought we think about, such as considered judgements, or intuitive responses to moral dilemmas, and assesses whether any are fit for purpose. Third, he offers an alternative approach - 'normative behaviourism' - which holds that rather than studying our thinking, we should study our behaviour. Perhaps, just sometimes, actions speak louder than thoughts.
Jonathan Floyd is a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Bristol. He has written widely on questions of method and justification in political philosophy and is co-editor of Political Philosophy versus History (Cambridge, 2011).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Introduction: 1. What is this book about? 2. Synopsis of chapter one 3. Synopsis of chapter two 4. Synopsis of chapter three 5. Who am I to say this? Part II. Symptom: Interminability: 6. Overview 7. Three questions: OQ, FQ, SQ 8. Rawls and a few of his rivals 9. A reassessment of the problem and a switch in literature 10. Isaiah Berlin: from value-pluralism, to universal evils, to liberalism 11. Rawls' second set of answers: from reasonableness to liberalism 12. United by an ideal of democracy? 13. United by an ideal of tolerance? 14. Stuart Hampshire and a second argument from universal evils 15. Joseph Raz: practical reason as a guide to political morality 16. Alasdair Macintyre: competing traditions as a guide to morality 17. Rorty's liberalism by redescription 18. A variety of further responses: denial, judgement, deferral 19. Interminability described the impossibility thesis introduced 20. The impossibility thesis sustained 21. Summary of arguments and a sketch of what follows Part III. Diagnosis: Mentalism: 22. Introduction 23. What mentalism is 24. Mentalism's techniques 25. Three types of mentalist evidence and a synopsis of why mentalism fails 26.1. The evidence for failure: impartial choices 26.2. The evidence for failure: considered judgements 26.3. The evidence for failure: intuitive choices of abstract principle 27. Normative dissonance in full view 28. Objections and clarifications 29. The problem restated Part IV. Cure: Normative Behaviourism: 30. Introduction 31. Normative behaviourism: a brief sketch 32.1. Preliminaries: facts, principles, thoughts, and behavior 32.2. Preliminaries: reasonable objections, causes/purposes, reliable tendencies, and the case for experimental optimism 33. An explanatory theory of social-liberal-democracy's success 34. The relationship between normative behaviourism, psychological behaviourism, political behaviouralism, and political science more generally 35. Reasons to be convinced by social-liberal-democracy 36. Normative behaviourism defended against five objections 37. Conclusions Part V. Conclusion: 38. Overview 39. Reiteration: out of the cave and on the way to Denmark 40. Clarification by way of a new set of comparisons 41. Concessions and reflections.
Part I. Introduction: 1. What is this book about? 2. Synopsis of chapter one 3. Synopsis of chapter two 4. Synopsis of chapter three 5. Who am I to say this? Part II. Symptom: Interminability: 6. Overview 7. Three questions: OQ, FQ, SQ 8. Rawls and a few of his rivals 9. A reassessment of the problem and a switch in literature 10. Isaiah Berlin: from value-pluralism, to universal evils, to liberalism 11. Rawls' second set of answers: from reasonableness to liberalism 12. United by an ideal of democracy? 13. United by an ideal of tolerance? 14. Stuart Hampshire and a second argument from universal evils 15. Joseph Raz: practical reason as a guide to political morality 16. Alasdair Macintyre: competing traditions as a guide to morality 17. Rorty's liberalism by redescription 18. A variety of further responses: denial, judgement, deferral 19. Interminability described the impossibility thesis introduced 20. The impossibility thesis sustained 21. Summary of arguments and a sketch of what follows Part III. Diagnosis: Mentalism: 22. Introduction 23. What mentalism is 24. Mentalism's techniques 25. Three types of mentalist evidence and a synopsis of why mentalism fails 26.1. The evidence for failure: impartial choices 26.2. The evidence for failure: considered judgements 26.3. The evidence for failure: intuitive choices of abstract principle 27. Normative dissonance in full view 28. Objections and clarifications 29. The problem restated Part IV. Cure: Normative Behaviourism: 30. Introduction 31. Normative behaviourism: a brief sketch 32.1. Preliminaries: facts, principles, thoughts, and behavior 32.2. Preliminaries: reasonable objections, causes/purposes, reliable tendencies, and the case for experimental optimism 33. An explanatory theory of social-liberal-democracy's success 34. The relationship between normative behaviourism, psychological behaviourism, political behaviouralism, and political science more generally 35. Reasons to be convinced by social-liberal-democracy 36. Normative behaviourism defended against five objections 37. Conclusions Part V. Conclusion: 38. Overview 39. Reiteration: out of the cave and on the way to Denmark 40. Clarification by way of a new set of comparisons 41. Concessions and reflections.
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