The Nature of Political Theory

150 The Nature of Political Theory Tradition, in this latter work, is not something to be taught or put across either in injunct ...

Shoring Up Foundations 151 per se, has no substantive purpose. It is not reliant upon will, affection, or a common good. It is r ...

152 The Nature of Political Theory stylized collectivized vision of a British war-based post-1945 polity and economy (see Oakesh ...

Shoring Up Foundations 153 answer’ (Oakeshott 1965: 90). She selects, abridges, and abstracts to make a self- consistent creed, ...

154 The Nature of Political Theory notdetermined by them. No universal, whether deontological or consequential, will overcome th ...

Shoring Up Foundations 155 In this sense, communitarianism lays down a loose template for considering other recent expressions o ...

156 The Nature of Political Theory After the philosophical flurries of the 1980s, however, communitarianism has changed quite di ...

Shoring Up Foundations 157 traditional organic pastoral communities. This was also reflected again in the twenti- eth century po ...

158 The Nature of Political Theory forces were radically undermining and diminishing ‘social capital’. It was therefore seen as ...

Shoring Up Foundations 159 liberal-minded claims. In point, it might be seen, more straightforwardly, as ‘lib- eral communitaria ...

160 The Nature of Political Theory communitarianism has distinctively liberal aspects—although it is a different species of libe ...

Shoring Up Foundations 161 which, in turn, was both a uniquely personalandcultural phenomenon. Herder is thus often linked to th ...

162 The Nature of Political Theory practices, which he calls maximal morality, precedes universal minimal morality. In fact, the ...

Shoring Up Foundations 163 of political liberalism is to uncover the conditions of the possibility of a reasonable public basis ...

164 The Nature of Political Theory is a response to the fears generated by wars of religion, following the Reformation (see Shkl ...

Shoring Up Foundations 165 so at a cost—for example,—relegating reason from the religious and metaphysics sphere. In this contex ...

166 The Nature of Political Theory also suggests that the conception of persons, as the basic units of deliberation and responsi ...

Shoring Up Foundations 167 most deep-rooted, yet often quite reasonable presuppositions we make about the character of our reali ...

168 The Nature of Political Theory many apparent ‘communities’ or particular political orders. As Charles Larmore puts it, such ...

Shoring Up Foundations 169 communitarians appear unperturbed about the whole issue of groups. Yet, embed- dedness is far more pe ...