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Partisan Or Neutral?
Michael J. White
其他書名
The Futility of Public Political Theory
出版
Rowman & Littlefield
, 1997
主題
Philosophy / Political
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Political Ideologies / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
ISBN
0847684547
9780847684540
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Af4BoDyzneIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Partisan or Neutral? critically examines the Rawlsian ideal of a public, supposedly neutral, political theory meant to justify contemporary constitutional democracies. Placing this ideal-appealed to by neo-natural law theorists and advocates of 'public theology' as well as by political theorists-against the background of the history of political liberalism, White shows its contradictory nature. He argues that any such legitimating theory will be 'partisan, ' in the sense of appealing to convictions concerning the human good that will not be universally accepted. He concludes that all politics must be imperfect-a matter of pragmatism and prudence in forming the most workable compromises possible and in acquiescing, where our principles allow us to do so, in situations that are often far from optimal.