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Partisan or Neutral?: The Futility of Public Political Theory

Partisan or Neutral?: The Futility of Public Political Theory

White, Michael

Paperback

Series: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0847684547
ISBN13: 9780847684540
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jun 12 1997
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.93 Depth: 8.95
Language: English
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.

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