Başlık:
Rationalism, pluralism, and freedom
Yazar:
Levy, Jacob T., 1971- author (DLC)no 99032235
ISBN:
9780198808916
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Basım Bilgisi:
First edition
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xiii, 322 pages ; 24 cm.
İçerik:
-- Freedom, Associations, and Uniformity -- The Setting -- Some Sources of Disagreement -- Autonomy and Toleration -- Whose Freedom? -- The Sources of Law and Social Order -- Discrimination and Diversity -- Two Approaches -- The Pure Liberal Theory of Freedom of Association -- Why the Pure Theory is Not Satisfactory -- Congruence -- Why Congruence is Not Satisfactory -- Reunderstanding Intermediate Groups -- Treating Groups as Groups -- Tendencies toward State Excess -- Property and Wealth -- Secrecy and Privacy -- Transnationality -- The Centralizing Temperament and the Man of System -- Congruence Again -- Tendencies toward Group Excess -- Authority Generates Power -- Pluralism Generates Power -- Interested and Invasive Power -- -- Antecedents and Foundations -- The Birth of Intermediacy -- The Roman Law -- Facts and Norms -- The Ancient Constitution, the Social Contract, and the Modern State -- The Emergence of the State -- Peers, Provinces, and Parlements -- The Ancient Constitution -- Corporatism and Parliaments -- The Theorists of the Ancient Constitution -- Ancient Constitutionalism and its Neighbors -- Montesquieu and Voltaire, Philosophies and Parlements -- The Early Eighteenth Century -- Montesquieu -- Voltaire -- The Age of Revolutions -- Smith, Burke, and Paine -- Tracy and Constant -- The United States -- The Society of the Cincinnati -- Centralization in a Democratic Age: Tocqueville and Mill -- Tocqueville on Associations and Corps -- Mill on Centralization and Local Despotism -- From Liberal Constitutionalism to Pluralism -- The British Pluralists -- Lord Acton -- Acton and the Pluralists -- The Pluralist Theory of Group Life -- -- The Constitution of Group Life -- Intermediacy Affects Politics -- Faction -- The Illiberal Majority -- Minority Group Capture -- The Majoritarian State -- Territory and Government -- Politics and Balance -- Associations are Not States -- Complex Associations -- Universities and Liberal Justice -- State Action -- Conclusion: Against Synthesis -- Taylor and the "Long March" -- Rawls and the Morality of Association -- Hegel, Ethical Life, and Corporate Forms
Özet:
Intermediate groups- voluntary associations, churches, ethnocultural groups, universities, and more-can both protect threaten individual liberty. The same is true for centralized state action against such groups. This wide-ranging book argues that, both normatively and historically, liberal political thought rests on a deep tension between a rationalist suspicion of intermediate and local group power, and a pluralism favorable toward intermediate group life, and preserving the bulk of its suspicion for the centralizing state. The book studies this tension using tools from the history of political thought, normative political philosophy, law, and social theory. In the process, it retells the history of liberal thought and practice in a way that moves from the birth of intermediacy in the High Middle Ages to the British Pluralists of the twentieth century. In particular it restores centrality to the tradition of ancient constitutionalism and to Montesquieu, arguing that social contract theory's contributions to the development of liberal thought have been mistaken for the whole tradition. It discusses the real threats to freedom posed both by local group life and by state centralization, the ways in which those threats aggravate each other. Though the state and intermediate groups can check and balance each other in ways that protect freedom, they may also aggravate each other's worst tendencies. Likewise, the elements of liberal thought concerned with the threats from each cannot necessarily be combined into a single satisfactory theory of freedom. While the book frequently reconstructs and defends pluralism, it ultimately argues that the tension is irreconcilable and not susceptible of harmonization or synthesis; it must be lived with, not overcome
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