Over many years, American political theorist William E. Connolly has offered a sustained critique of the “politics of morality.” Connolly made his case initially by attacking themes in the theological writings of Augustine of Hippo. In response to Connolly’s initial challenge, this essay promotes a conception of Christian ethics that reflects other Augustinian themes than those Connolly resisted. Drawing on the work of H. Richard Niebuhr and Sam Wells, I show how Christian ethicists have developed accounts of improvised responsibility. The essay concludes that such accounts are congruent with Connolly’s vision of politics as critical pluralism based on agonistic respect.
多年来，美国政治理论家威廉·e·康诺利(William E. Connolly)对“道德政治”进行了持续的批判。康诺利最初通过攻击河马的奥古斯丁的神学著作中的主题来证明他的观点。为了回应康诺利最初的挑战，这篇文章提出了一种基督教伦理观念，它反映了康诺利所反对的奥古斯丁主题之外的其他主题。根据H. Richard Niebuhr和Sam Wells的著作，我展示了基督教伦理学家如何发展出即兴责任的解释。本文的结论是，这些描述与康诺利的政治愿景是一致的，即基于竞争尊重的批判性多元主义。
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Reflection on teaching courses in the Western tradition over many years leads the author to identify some unavoidable fundamental questions, among them: What does one mean by “tradition”? Are there perennial insights which persist through time? If there are, how are they aff ected by changing historical conditions? Are ideas necessarily relative to time and place? Is there progressive understanding or wisdom or is there simply change? What sorts of lessons is one to gain from studying the past? John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty” is examined with respect to such questions to discern the response of one of the acknowledged masters of modern progressive thought. In turn, some concluding questions are posed to Mill’s response, seeking to extend dialogue on these matters.
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{"title":"The People Has Its Political Reason, of Which Political Theory Knows Nothing","authors":"Farhang Erfani","doi":"10.1558/EXPO.V1I1.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/EXPO.V1I1.105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30121,"journal":{"name":"Expositions Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities","volume":"22 1","pages":"105-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90225136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Award Heard Around the World? Ismail Kadare and the Inaugural Man Booker International Prize","authors":"E. Wittman","doi":"10.1558/EXPO.V1I1.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/EXPO.V1I1.89","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30121,"journal":{"name":"Expositions Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities","volume":"25 1","pages":"89-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87274238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper considers arguments for finding human beings to be centrally rational or basically affective. The former view, initiated by the predominant philosophers of antiquity, prevailed in the West until Spinoza and (among those after him) Heidegger made affectivity primary. The thesis is that this choice is not primarily psychological but ontological and that the question must be pursued metaphysically.
{"title":"Question: Are Human Beings Ultimately Affective?","authors":"E. Brann","doi":"10.1558/EXPO.V1I1.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/EXPO.V1I1.53","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers arguments for finding human beings to be centrally rational or basically affective. The former view, initiated by the predominant philosophers of antiquity, prevailed in the West until Spinoza and (among those after him) Heidegger made affectivity primary. The thesis is that this choice is not primarily psychological but ontological and that the question must be pursued metaphysically.","PeriodicalId":30121,"journal":{"name":"Expositions Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities","volume":"102 1","pages":"53-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88552315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul of Tarsus addresses a central human problem: Why do we not do what we know we should? This presumes that we know what we should do. Paul’s claim that even those without the revealed law know what is right by means of “nature” and “conscience” may seem to impose Greek notions onto Hebrew religion, but in fact articulates suggestions already present in the law and prophets, namely that the revealed law codifies and concretizes the law already written on the human heart by the Creator. Since this core of universal principles lacks specific normative content, Pauline Christianity necessarily seeks to absorb what is good from the content of existing civilizations. In so doing, it separates the literature, thought and practices of the civilizations it absorbs from their religion, thus giving birth to the very notion of “culture,” and specifically to Greekness as a cultural entity that could be preserved and passed on without losing its otherness.
{"title":"Jew, Greek and Christian: Some Reflections on the Pauline Revolution","authors":"Rémi Brague","doi":"10.1558/EXPO.V1I1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/EXPO.V1I1.15","url":null,"abstract":"Paul of Tarsus addresses a central human problem: Why do we not do what we know we should? This presumes that we know what we should do. Paul’s claim that even those without the revealed law know what is right by means of “nature” and “conscience” may seem to impose Greek notions onto Hebrew religion, but in fact articulates suggestions already present in the law and prophets, namely that the revealed law codifies and concretizes the law already written on the human heart by the Creator. Since this core of universal principles lacks specific normative content, Pauline Christianity necessarily seeks to absorb what is good from the content of existing civilizations. In so doing, it separates the literature, thought and practices of the civilizations it absorbs from their religion, thus giving birth to the very notion of “culture,” and specifically to Greekness as a cultural entity that could be preserved and passed on without losing its otherness.","PeriodicalId":30121,"journal":{"name":"Expositions Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities","volume":"7 1","pages":"15-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75697936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The three views of human nature presented in this essay, all John Henry Newman’s, are from the vantage point of natural religion, from that of the liberally educated person, and from that of one imbued with Christian faith and love. These three views are related not progressively, but analogously, for each viewpoint in itself shows some kind of profound, intrinsic development of what is usually taken to be “mere” human nature.
{"title":"Some Aspects of Human Nature As Viewed by Cardinal John Henry Newman","authors":"M. K. Tillman","doi":"10.1558/EXPO.V1I1.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/EXPO.V1I1.29","url":null,"abstract":"The three views of human nature presented in this essay, all John Henry Newman’s, are from the vantage point of natural religion, from that of the liberally educated person, and from that of one imbued with Christian faith and love. These three views are related not progressively, but analogously, for each viewpoint in itself shows some kind of profound, intrinsic development of what is usually taken to be “mere” human nature.","PeriodicalId":30121,"journal":{"name":"Expositions Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities","volume":"15 1","pages":"29-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80093532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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