The Nature of Political Theory

170 The Nature of Political Theory There is an elitist element to his writing and deep dislike for all socialist or social demo ...

6 New Conventions for Old This chapter continues the examination of forms of conventionalism. It focuses on nationalism, neo-Ari ...

172 The Nature of Political Theory an inherently irrationalist doctrine. Both liberal and democratic socialist theories, particu ...

New Conventions for Old 173 philosophies and psychologies. Conservative ideologies still find sustenance in such notions. There ...

174 The Nature of Political Theory Everything depends here on the concept of ‘theory’. Empirically-orientated theories (in polit ...

New Conventions for Old 175 is just deeply implausible (see MacCormick in Twining (ed.) 1991: 13). Thus, Neil MacCormick states, ...

176 The Nature of Political Theory any part of their sense of their own identity’. Thus, MacCormick concludes, ‘I assert it as a ...

New Conventions for Old 177 Another element of Miller’s case is concerned with the questions: does nationalism require state sov ...

178 The Nature of Political Theory century. It does not have a large academic following in comparison to nationalism. However, t ...

New Conventions for Old 179 of diverse imperfect ways of life or communities. Third, although there is recognition of contingenc ...

180 The Nature of Political Theory consensual, and idealized idea with a more contingent, generic, potentially internally divisi ...

New Conventions for Old 181 human beings and the good. She sees this as doing justice to both liberal anxieties concerning pater ...

182 The Nature of Political Theory Nussbaum, a residual or minimalist welfarism, it is rather ‘a comprehensive support scheme fo ...

New Conventions for Old 183 wrong to suggest that Aristotle considers justice or politics ‘as something that can be determined b ...

184 The Nature of Political Theory Thus, for Salkever, and others, the neo-Aristotelian perspective is not a premodern alternati ...

New Conventions for Old 185 of character formation and moral habituation within particular communities and traditions. Action pr ...

186 The Nature of Political Theory with the previous hermeneutic argument. We need toreadmorality and politics correctly. MacInt ...

New Conventions for Old 187 really clear universal answers to moral issues. Relativism, strict conventionalism, and particularis ...

188 The Nature of Political Theory terminology for several hundred years after it was no longer politically effective. Res publi ...

New Conventions for Old 189 important strands of Anglo-American political culture, of the early modern period, as part of a civi ...