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Political Judgement (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 20)
By Ronald Beiner
Copyright 1983
218 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Originally published in 1983. One of the basic capacities of man as a political being is his faculty of judgement. Yet for all the books on concepts like freedom, equality and authority, surprisingly little attention has been given to this topic in the tradition of Western political thought. What is the nature of political judgement? What endows us, as human beings, with the ability to make... Read more
1. What is Political Judgement? 2. Possible Avenues of Inquiry 3. Kant’s Concept of Taste 4. Aristotle’s Concept of Prudence 5. Judgement and Rhetoric 6. With Sympathy and Detachment: Horizons of a Comprehensive Perspective 7. Towards a Theory of Political Judgement 8. Closing Reflections
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Beiner, Ronald
'A major contribution to the renewal of a philosophically aware political culture.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
