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Devin Stauffer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Leo Strauss's 'On the Basis of Hobbes's Political Philosophy'
Social Science Research Network, 2012Co-Authors: Devin StaufferAbstract:Chapter Seven of What Is Political Philosophy?, “On the Basis of Hobbes’s Political Philosophy,” is preceded by four chapters on pre-modern Political Philosophy and followed by a chapter on Locke. If the central theme of What Is Political Philosophy? is the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, or the contest between “the classical solution” and “the modern solutions” (see 27-55), then the chapter on Hobbes is the crucial pivot-point from the premodern to the modern section of the book. Indeed, Strauss indicates that his interest in Hobbes stems, above all, from his concern with the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns (172- 73). Now, between his first published work on Hobbes, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, and the chapter on Hobbes in What Is Political Philosophy?, Strauss revised his view that Hobbes was the originator of modernity. That title, in Strauss’s revised view, belongs to Machiavelli. As he put it in another statement on Hobbes which he wrote well after The Political Philosophy of Hobbes but shortly before our present chapter, “it was Machiavelli, that greater Columbus, who had discovered the continent on which Hobbes could erect his structure.” Yet, as that formulation indicates, Hobbes, while following the route discovered by Machiavelli, was modernity’s first great architect and builder. Thus, both for the sake of understanding ourselves as moderns and for reexamining the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, the study of Hobbes is essential. This is especially so, according to Strauss, since modernity has not simply moved beyond Hobbes but rather “has progressed to the point where it has visibly become a problem” (172; cf. Strauss 2006, 122-25).
Terence Ball - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Value of the History of Political Philosophy
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2011Co-Authors: Terence BallAbstract:To ask, “What is the worth or value of the history of Political Philosophy?” is a rather complicated question with many competing answers. The answer(s) one gives depends to a very large degree on the approach one takes or the “school” of interpretation to which one belongs. Some answer that there are “perennial questions” and “timeless truths” to be found in classic works of Political Philosophy that speak to us still. Others answer that such study reveals the roots or origins of present-day Political movements such as communism and fascism. This article considers the possibility that the history of Political Philosophy and its scholarly study are without value. After dispatching this rather philistine view, it shows how various approaches to interpretation assign very different value to the study of the history of Political Philosophy. These approaches include the “perennial problems,” Marxism, “ideological origins,” feminism, Straussian approach, postmodernism, and the Cambridge School.
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Green Political Philosophy
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1Co-Authors: Terence BallAbstract:All the major Political philosophies have been born of crisis. Green Political Philosophy is no exception to this general rule. It has emerged from that interconnected series of crises that is often termed ‘the environmental crisis’. As we enter the third millennium and the twenty-first century it seems quite clear that the level and degree of environmental degradation and destruction cannot be sustained over the longer term without dire consequences for human and other animal species, and the ecosystems on which all depend. A veritable explosion in the human population, the pollution of air and water, the over-fishing of the oceans, the destruction of tropical and temperate rain forests, the extinction of entire species, the depletion of the ozone layer, the build-up of greenhouse gases, global warming, desertification, wind and water erosion of precious topsoil, the disappearance of valuable farmland and wilderness for ‘development’ – these and many other interrelated phenomena provide the backdrop and justification for the ‘greening’ of much of modern Political thinking. The task of outlining and summarizing the state of green Political Philosophy is made more difficult because there is as yet no agreement among ‘green’ Political thinkers. Indeed there is, at present, no definitive ‘green Political Philosophy’ as such. The environmental or green movement is diverse and disparate, and appears in different shades of green. These range from ‘light green’ conservationists to ‘dark green’ deep ecologists, from ecofeminists to social ecologists, from the militant ecoteurs of Earth First! to the low-keyed gradualists of the Sierra Club and the Nature Conservancy. These groups differ not only over strategy and tactics, but also over fundamental Philosophy. While there is no single, systematically articulated and agreed-upon green Political Philosophy, however, there are none the less recurring topics, themes, categories and concepts that are surely central to such a Political Philosophy. These include the idea that humans are part of nature and members of a larger and more inclusive ‘biotic community’ to which they have obligations or duties. This community includes both human and non-human animals, and the conditions conducive to their survival and flourishing. Such a community consists, moreover, not only of members who are alive but those who are as yet unborn. A green Political Philosophy values both biological and cultural diversity, and views sustainability as a standard by which to judge the justness of human actions and practices. Exactly how these themes might fit together to form some larger, systematic and coherent whole is still being worked out.
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Green Political Philosophy
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1Co-Authors: Terence BallAbstract:All the major Political philosophies have been born of crisis. Green Political Philosophy is no exception to this general rule. It has emerged from that interconnected series of crises that is often termed ‘the environmental crisis’. As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century it seems quite clear that the level and degree of environmental degradation and destruction cannot be sustained over the longer term without dire consequences for human and other animal species, and the ecosystems on which all depend. A veritable explosion in the human population, the pollution of air and water, the melting of the polar ice caps and the resulting rise in sea levels, the overfishing of the oceans, the destruction of tropical and temperate rain forests, the extinction of entire species, the depletion of the ozone layer, the build-up of greenhouse gases, global warming, desertification, wind and water erosion of precious topsoil, the disappearance of valuable farmland and wilderness for ‘development’ – these and many other interrelated phenomena provide the backdrop and justification for the ‘greening’ of much of modern Political thinking. The task of outlining and summarizing the state of green Political Philosophy is made more difficult because there is as yet no agreement among ‘green’ Political thinkers. Indeed there is, at present, no definitive ‘green Political Philosophy’ as such. The environmental or green movement is diverse and disparate, and appears in different shades of green. These range from ‘light green’ conservationists to ‘dark green’ deep ecologists, from ecofeminists to social ecologists, from the militant ecoteurs of Earth First!, to the low-keyed gradualists of the Sierra Club and the Nature Conservancy. These groups differ not only over strategy and tactics, but also over fundamental Philosophy as well. While there is no single, systematically articulated and agreed-upon green Political Philosophy, however, there are nonetheless recurring topics, themes, categories and concepts that are surely central to such a Political Philosophy. These include the idea that humans are part of nature and members of a larger and more inclusive ‘biotic community’ to which they have obligations or duties. This community includes both human and nonhuman animals, and the conditions conducive to their survival and flourishing. Such a community consists, moreover, not only of members who are alive but those who are as yet unborn. A green Political Philosophy values both biological and cultural diversity, and views sustainability as a standard by which to judge the justness of human actions and practices. Exactly how these themes might fit together to form some larger, systematic and coherent whole is still being worked out.
Peter G. Stillman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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‘Nothing is, but what is not’: Utopias as practical Political Philosophy
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2000Co-Authors: Peter G. StillmanAbstract:(2000). ‘Nothing is, but what is not’: Utopias as practical Political Philosophy. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 3, The Philosophy of Utopia, pp. 9-24.
Zang Feng-yu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Review of Studies on Marx's Political Philosophy
Teaching and Research, 2009Co-Authors: Zang Feng-yuAbstract:Marx's Political Philosophy is becoming a research focus not merely because of the Political connotation of Marx's Philosophy,the critical reflection of Marx's Political economics,and the philosophical construct of Marx's communist theories which had led to the rise of Marx's Political Philosophy,but also because Political Philosophy with a strong scholastic awareness is an important dimension in understanding Marx's ideas.If the researches abroad are mainly summary and elaboration,domestic researches tend to focus on re-examination and construction.While domestic scholars have started their researches later than their overseas counterparts,they showed more profound understanding of Marx's Political Philosophy and its contemporary significance.It is based on a survey of studies on Marx's Political Philosophy from a historical perspective that a research framework of Marx's Political Philosophy is established with the spirit of the era.This is of significance in constructing contemporary Chinese Political Philosophy and human-oriented harmonious society.
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The Value Pursue of Marxist Political Philosophy and Its Modern Significance
Teaching and Research, 2007Co-Authors: Zang Feng-yuAbstract:Marxist Political Philosophy refuted the traditional western Political Philosophy since Plato by a practical way of thinking, always pointing to emancipation, freedom and overall development of man. This is contrary to the western tradition that regards the hypotheses of human nature as the point of departure of argument. Marxist Political Philosophy has benefited from a Philosophy—the humanities reform. Starting with criticism against the Young Hegelianism; Marx pushed forward Political Philosophy to a highest level through philosophical criticism in Political economics, establishment of communist theories, and studies of anthropology. The spirit of the time when Marxist Political Philosophy arose is of great theoretical value and practical significance to construction of harmonious society and establishment of the Chinese modern Political Philosophy.
Mogens Laerke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Leibniz on Spinoza’s Political Philosophy
2012Co-Authors: Mogens LaerkeAbstract:This chapter argues that Spinoza's Political Philosophy played an important role in the fact that the mature Leibniz was a strict anti-Spinozist. Leibniz's reading of Spinoza's Political texts developed from an initial mixed reaction of both interest and scandal towards a curious exclusion of the Spinozist possibility. Indeed, there is not a single text by the mature Leibniz addressing Spinoza's Political Philosophy. In order to overcome this textual problem, and establish the parameters for a confrontation between the two philosophers on the issue of Political Philosophy, the chapter considers how Leibniz and Spinoza respectively approached Hobbes' theory of natural right and contract theory. This interpretive triangulation allows determining with some plausibility what stance Leibniz took with regard to Spinoza's Political Philosophy in spite of the fact that he never actually stated it explicitly.
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Leibniz on Spinoza's Political Philosophy
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, 2012Co-Authors: Mogens LaerkeAbstract:This chapter argues that Spinoza's Political Philosophy played an important role in the fact that the mature Leibniz was a strict anti-Spinozist. Leibniz's reading of Spinoza's Political texts developed from an initial mixed reaction of both interest and scandal towards a curious exclusion of the Spinozist possibility. Indeed, there is not a single text by the mature Leibniz addressing Spinoza's Political Philosophy. In order to overcome this textual problem, and establish the parameters for a confrontation between the two philosophers on the issue of Political Philosophy, the chapter considers how Leibniz and Spinoza respectively approached Hobbes' theory of natural right and contract theory. This interpretive triangulation allows determining with some plausibility what stance Leibniz took with regard to Spinoza's Political Philosophy in spite of the fact that he never actually stated it explicitly.
