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In the beginning was the deed : realism and moralism in political argument / Bernard Williams ; selected, edited, and with an introduction by Geoffrey Hawthorn
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TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005Description: xx, 174 pages ; 24 cmISBN: - 0691124302
- 9780691124308
- 9780691124308
- 9780691134109
- 0691134103
- 9781400826735
- 140082673X
- ARCH YNDC 320.01 W721I 22
- JA71 .W462 2005
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Review: "Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions to issues of public concern - all complemented by his books on ethics, which have important implications for political theory."Summary: "This new collection of essays, most of them previously unpublished, addresses many of the core subjects of political philosophy: justice, liberty, and equality, the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear of power, democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself. A central theme throughout is that political philosophers need to engage more directly with the realities of political life, not simply with the theories of other philosophers. Williams makes this argument in part through a searching examination of where political thinking should originate, to whom it might be addressed, and what it should deliver."Summary: "Williams had intended to weave these essays into a connected narrative on political philosophy with reflections on his own experience of postwar politics. Sadly he did not live to complete it, but this book brings together many of its components. Geoffrey Hawthorn has arranged the material to resemble as closely as possible William's original design and vision. He has provided both an introduction to William's political philosophy and a bibliography of his formal and informal writings on politics."--Jacket
1. Realism and moralism in political theory -- 2. In the beginning was the deed -- 3. Pluralism, community and left Wittgensteinianism -- 4. Modernity and the substance of ethical life -- 5. The liberalism of fear -- 6. Human rights and relativism -- 7. From freedom to liberty : the construction of a political value -- 8. The idea of equality -- 9. Conflicts of liberty and equality -- 10. Toleration, a political or moral question? -- 11. Censorship -- 12. Humanitarianism and the right to intervene -- 13. Truth, politics, and self-deception
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"Bernard Williams: writings of political interest": pages 165-170
1. Realism and moralism in political theory -- 2. In the beginning was the deed -- 3. Pluralism, community and left Wittgensteinianism -- 4. Modernity and the substance of ethical life -- 5. The liberalism of fear -- 6. Human rights and relativism -- 7. From freedom to liberty : the construction of a political value -- 8. The idea of equality -- 9. Conflicts of liberty and equality -- 10. Toleration, a political or moral question? -- 11. Censorship -- 12. Humanitarianism and the right to intervene -- 13. Truth, politics, and self-deception
"Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions to issues of public concern - all complemented by his books on ethics, which have important implications for political theory."
"This new collection of essays, most of them previously unpublished, addresses many of the core subjects of political philosophy: justice, liberty, and equality, the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear of power, democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself. A central theme throughout is that political philosophers need to engage more directly with the realities of political life, not simply with the theories of other philosophers. Williams makes this argument in part through a searching examination of where political thinking should originate, to whom it might be addressed, and what it should deliver."
"Williams had intended to weave these essays into a connected narrative on political philosophy with reflections on his own experience of postwar politics. Sadly he did not live to complete it, but this book brings together many of its components. Geoffrey Hawthorn has arranged the material to resemble as closely as possible William's original design and vision. He has provided both an introduction to William's political philosophy and a bibliography of his formal and informal writings on politics."--Jacket
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