Daniel A. Dombrowski

Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism (eBook, PDF)

Rawls, Whitehead, Hartshorne

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues for political liberalism as a process-oriented view and process philosophy as a politically liberal view

• Argues for the processual, historical qualities of Rawlsian political liberalism
• Shows the inadequacies of certain illiberal political tendencies on both the political right and the political left
• Explicates why the processual method of reflective equilibrium is crucial in a just society
• Explores the implications of process liberalism for issues in animal rights and environmental ethics

Daniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of the 20th-century philosophy's greatest political liberal, John Rawls, with the thought of the great process philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. He shows that political liberalism is intimately linked with process philosophy, renaming it 'process liberalism'. He justifies this process liberalism in contrast to four potentially troublesome sources or influences: metaphysics, religion, right-wing politics and left-wing politics.

Dombrowski engages a series of interlocutors and alternative positions including Franklin I. Gamwell, Timothy D. Snyder, Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx. In conclusion, he offers a compelling, intricate and resourceful argument for nonhuman animal rights based on Rawlsian principles, which in turn forms the basis of a future environmental ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474453424
• Artikelnr.: 72429576

Autorenporträt

Daniel A. Dombrowski is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He is the author of 18 books and over a hundred articles in scholarly journals in philosophy, theology, classics and literature. His books include Whitehead's Religious Thought: From Mechanism to Organism, From Force to Persuasion (SUNY, 2017), A History of the Concept of God: A Process Approach (SUNY, 2016), Rawlsian Explorations in Religion and Applied Philosophy (Penn State University Press, 2011), Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals (University of Chicago Press, 2009), Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Reflective Equilibrium as a Process
2. Political Liberalism and Process Thought
3. Gamwell on 'The Comprehensive Question': A Rawlsian Critique
4: Religion, Solitude-in-Solidarity, and the Bloodlands
5. Heidegger, Political Philosophy, and Disequilibrium
6. Organic Marxism and Process Liberalism
7. From Nonhuman Animals to the Environment
Bibliography