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Freedom and Community / Yves R. Simon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (201 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823295586
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Preface -- 1 Freedom in Daily Life -- 2 Liberty and Authority -- 3 Freedom and Community -- 4 Autonomy and Authority -- 5 Political Society -- 6 Pessimism and the Philosophy of Progress -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The theory of liberty here propounded by Simon, along with his analysis of authority, democracy, and practical wisdom, contains the elements of a political philosophy that can provide direction to other contemporary political theorists of our times. While the latter have gathered great masses of political facts, they have lacked a normative set of ideas that can make these facts meaningful and useful to political society. Simon’s position as a philosopher rather than as a political scientist, is that while there is a science of social and political facts, a normative moral philosophy that knows the ends of human action is necessary because people make good or bad use of their freedom. As always, Simon here writes with a lucidity and moderation that will be satisfying to reasonable people looking for a way out of skepticism and uncertainty. He was no dogmatist, but he knew what he knew and what he did not know. This is the beginning of wisdom and a model for philosophers.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Preface -- 1 Freedom in Daily Life -- 2 Liberty and Authority -- 3 Freedom and Community -- 4 Autonomy and Authority -- 5 Political Society -- 6 Pessimism and the Philosophy of Progress -- Bibliography -- Index

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The theory of liberty here propounded by Simon, along with his analysis of authority, democracy, and practical wisdom, contains the elements of a political philosophy that can provide direction to other contemporary political theorists of our times. While the latter have gathered great masses of political facts, they have lacked a normative set of ideas that can make these facts meaningful and useful to political society. Simon’s position as a philosopher rather than as a political scientist, is that while there is a science of social and political facts, a normative moral philosophy that knows the ends of human action is necessary because people make good or bad use of their freedom. As always, Simon here writes with a lucidity and moderation that will be satisfying to reasonable people looking for a way out of skepticism and uncertainty. He was no dogmatist, but he knew what he knew and what he did not know. This is the beginning of wisdom and a model for philosophers.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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