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What Is Left of the Political Philosophy Renewal?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2016

Daniel Tanguay*
Affiliation:
Université d'Ottawa

Extract

I read Beiner's book as the intellectual biography of someone who is both a witness and actor in the contemporary renewal of political philosophy. This is why, in the reflections that follow, I focus not on his perspicacious analyses of the various authors treated in the book, but rather on the manner in which he understands the nature of this renewal and the future of the discipline itself. My reflections are based in a fundamental agreement with the definition of philosophy defended in this work. Political philosophy is a discipline that reflects on the ends of human life in order to rank and to judge them. This is why, according to Beiner, political philosophy has the ambition to present totalizing views of human nature (14).

Type
Symposium on Ronald Beiner, Political Philosophy: What It Is and Why It Matters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. lv, 304.)
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 2016 

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