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We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after 1945. In The Theology of Liberalism, one of the country's most important political theorists argues that we could hardly be more wrong. Eric Nelson contends that the tradition of liberal political philosophy founded by John Rawls is, however unwittingly, the product of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. Once we understand this, he suggests, we can recognize the deep incoherence of various forms of liberal political philosophy that have emerged in Rawls's wake.
Nelson starts by noting that today's liberal political philosophers treat the unequal distribution of social and natural advantages as morally arbitrary. This arbitrariness, they claim, diminishes our moral responsibility for our actions. Some even argue that we are not morally responsible when our own choices and efforts produce inequalities. In defending such views, Nelson writes, modern liberals have implicitly taken up positions in an age-old debate about whether the nature of the created world is consistent with the justice of God. Strikingly, their commitments diverge sharply from those of their proto-liberal predecessors, who rejected the notion of moral arbitrariness in favor of what was called Pelagianism--the view that beings created and judged by a just God must be capable of freedom and merit. Nelson reconstructs this earlier "liberal" position and shows that Rawls's philosophy derived from his self-conscious repudiation of Pelagianism. In closing, Nelson sketches a way out of the argumentative maze for liberals who wish to emerge with commitments to freedom and equality intact.
Eric Nelson is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history of political thought in early-modern Europe and America, and on the implications of that history for debates in contemporary political theory.
Particular interests include the history of republican political theory, the relationship between the history of political thought and the history of scholarship, theories of property, and the phenomenon of secularization.
Nelson's newest book, The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. His other books include The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding (Harvard/Belknap, 2014), which received the Society of the Cincinnati History Prize and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2015, as well as a Choice "Top 25 Books for 2015" selection; The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought (Harvard/Belknap, 2010), which received the Erwin Stein Prize and the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2010; and The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2004). He also edited Hobbes's translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2008). His essays have appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals and edited volumes. Nelson received his AB summa cum laude from Harvard University (1999) and his PhD from The University of Cambridge (2002). He has been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has also been a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a British Marshall Scholar.
既能寫早期近代思想史(聯係古希臘源流),又能寫美國建國思想史,現在還展示瞭和當代羅爾斯派鬥智的筆力,這位老哥果真是全能型的奇纔。但目前為止還沒有看齣他提齣瞭什麼建構性的方案。比如這本書,講瞭很多不同層次的問題,批判羅爾斯egalitarianism也很到位,但最終也不太清楚他到底有什麼積極建議。最後兩麵似乎錶達瞭他的一種共和主義民主理論的主張:民主代錶製原則優先於分配正義原則?這對當代自由派意味著一條什麼樣的齣路呢?
評分談representation的部分還有點意思
評分談representation的部分還有點意思
評分既能寫早期近代思想史(聯係古希臘源流),又能寫美國建國思想史,現在還展示瞭和當代羅爾斯派鬥智的筆力,這位老哥果真是全能型的奇纔。但目前為止還沒有看齣他提齣瞭什麼建構性的方案。比如這本書,講瞭很多不同層次的問題,批判羅爾斯egalitarianism也很到位,但最終也不太清楚他到底有什麼積極建議。最後兩麵似乎錶達瞭他的一種共和主義民主理論的主張:民主代錶製原則優先於分配正義原則?這對當代自由派意味著一條什麼樣的齣路呢?
評分談representation的部分還有點意思
抽空翻了翻整本书,觉得这个努力要是能够引起一定的反响,必定能使得这本书在整个政治哲学史上占据一席。Nelson在日渐分裂的政治思想史与规范性政治理论之间架起桥梁,以及,在更为广义的神学与政治哲学之间架起桥梁的努力,不仅是这个时代所迫切需要的,也是相当具有开创性的...
評分抽空翻了翻整本书,觉得这个努力要是能够引起一定的反响,必定能使得这本书在整个政治哲学史上占据一席。Nelson在日渐分裂的政治思想史与规范性政治理论之间架起桥梁,以及,在更为广义的神学与政治哲学之间架起桥梁的努力,不仅是这个时代所迫切需要的,也是相当具有开创性的...
評分抽空翻了翻整本书,觉得这个努力要是能够引起一定的反响,必定能使得这本书在整个政治哲学史上占据一席。Nelson在日渐分裂的政治思想史与规范性政治理论之间架起桥梁,以及,在更为广义的神学与政治哲学之间架起桥梁的努力,不仅是这个时代所迫切需要的,也是相当具有开创性的...
評分抽空翻了翻整本书,觉得这个努力要是能够引起一定的反响,必定能使得这本书在整个政治哲学史上占据一席。Nelson在日渐分裂的政治思想史与规范性政治理论之间架起桥梁,以及,在更为广义的神学与政治哲学之间架起桥梁的努力,不仅是这个时代所迫切需要的,也是相当具有开创性的...
評分抽空翻了翻整本书,觉得这个努力要是能够引起一定的反响,必定能使得这本书在整个政治哲学史上占据一席。Nelson在日渐分裂的政治思想史与规范性政治理论之间架起桥梁,以及,在更为广义的神学与政治哲学之间架起桥梁的努力,不仅是这个时代所迫切需要的,也是相当具有开创性的...
The Theology of Liberalism pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024