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  • 2 - Belief, Truth, and Knowledge

  • Peter J. Steinberger, Reed College, Oregon
  • Book:
    Rationalism in Politics
    Published online:
    11 August 2022
    Print publication:
    25 August 2022, pp 67-121

  • Summary

    Political rationslism presupposes foundations not only in tacit belief but in implicit belief as well. As such, its perforce engages notions of truth and justification. In such a context, Chapter 2 pursues post-Kantian notions of coherence, internatlism, and holism regarding the problem of mind and world, especially as it plays out in public life.

Rationalism in Politics
  • Peter J. Steinberger
  • Published online:
    11 August 2022
    Print publication:
    25 August 2022
  • Arguing against emergent and even dominant tendencies of recent political thought that emphasize the so-called primacy of affect, Peter Steinberger challenges political theorists to take account of important themes in philosophy on the topic of human rationality. He engages with major proponents of post-Kantian thought, analytic and continental alike, to show how political judgment and political action, properly understood, are deeply and definitively grounded in considerations of human reason. Focusing especially on influential arguments in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of action, he seeks to rediscover and reanimate the close connection between systematic philosophical speculation on the one hand and the theory and practice of politics on the other. The result is a neo-rationalist conception of judgment and action that promises to offer a substantial and compelling account of political enterprise as it plays out in the real world of public affairs.

  • Rationalism in Politics

  • PETER J. STEINBERGER
  • Journal:
    American Political Science Review / Volume 109 / Issue 4 / November 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 November 2015, pp. 750-763
    Print publication:
    November 2015

  • Much recent political thought has been devoted to the proposition that neither political endeavor properly understood nor theorizing about such endeavor is or could ever be a kind of rational activity. I examine three broad approaches that celebrate, respectively, rhetorical practices of political persuasion, agonistic conceptions of democracy, and, more generally, a kind of hard-headed critical realism rooted in the plain facts of political life. I argue that criticisms of rationalism in politics associated with these approaches systematically ignore central tenets of what might be called a post-Kantian convergence of recent and important philosophical perspectives and that such perspectives can be enormously useful in addressing and critically evaluating the underlying intellectual structures of political life.

The Politics of Objectivity
  • An Essay on the Foundations of Political Conflict
  • Peter J. Steinberger
  • Published online:
    05 August 2015
    Print publication:
    10 August 2015
  • Modern political conflict characteristically reflects and represents deep-seated but also unacknowledged and un-analyzed disagreements about what it means to be 'objective'. In defending this proposition, Peter J. Steinberger seeks to reaffirm the idea of rationalism in politics by examining important problems of public life explicitly in the light of established philosophical doctrine. The Politics of Objectivity invokes, thereby, an age-old, though now widely ignored, tradition of western thought according to which all political thinking is inevitably embedded in and underwritten by larger structures of metaphysical inquiry. Building on earlier studies of the idea of the state, and focusing on highly contested practices of objectivity in judgement, this book suggests that political conflict is an essentially discursive enterprise deeply implicated in the rational pursuit of theories about how things in the world really are.

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