A Theory of Republican Character and Related EssaysSusquehanna University Press, 1994 - 166 trang ""American Democracy and the Punitive Use of Force - Requiem for the McNamara Model," the third piece in this volume, is relevant not merely for its general policy considerations (which are still meaningful after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Gulf War), but because it views the use of armed force in the context of the preservation of a system of political authority - a republican affinity - rather than primarily as an "economic" exercise in the infliction of increments of "pain."" "The collection's fourth essay is entitled "Drama and Democracy." It attempts to show how the pedagogic use of drama in the college classroom can help to keep political ways of understanding alive and respectable - in the face of the onslaught of scientific modes of explanation." "Two shorter pieces are included as appendices. The first, a public address entitled "Two Views of Aristotle's Politics" is included here for its opposition to the claim of some historians that Aristotle can hardly be of political relevance today. The second appendix is a review of Michael Oakeshott's The Voice of Liberal Learning, edited by Timothy Fuller. It is important here because Oakeshott's account of the liberal arts ideal of nurturing habits of comprehensive, individual judgment is typical of what Coats calls the "republican character.""--BOOK JACKET. |
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... Aristotle's view ? What distinguishes the citizen of the polity from the agrarian democrats who are " good " only in the negative sense that since they value farming over politics , and live in the country , they are inclined to live by ...
... Aristotle's view ? What distinguishes the citizen of the polity from the agrarian democrats who are " good " only in the negative sense that since they value farming over politics , and live in the country , they are inclined to live by ...
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... Aristotle's criticism of de- mocracy ( Meier is silent on Aristotle's criticism of oligarchy ) , and with " the grandiose pretensions of political theory " which dared to find fault with the practice of Athenian democracy , as being ...
... Aristotle's criticism of de- mocracy ( Meier is silent on Aristotle's criticism of oligarchy ) , and with " the grandiose pretensions of political theory " which dared to find fault with the practice of Athenian democracy , as being ...
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... Aristotle's basic outlook in the Politics is still basically sound and applicable to the modern world , with a few adjustments ; the second is that its historical and cultural context is so different from our own as to make the Politics ...
... Aristotle's basic outlook in the Politics is still basically sound and applicable to the modern world , with a few adjustments ; the second is that its historical and cultural context is so different from our own as to make the Politics ...
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Introduction | 9 |
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Some Correspondences Between Oakeshotts Civil | 60 |
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