Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.53765/20512988.44.4.705
Eleonora Buono
This paper investigates Herbert Spencer's influence on William Stanley Jevons' political thought. Jevons' thought was shaped by three ideas, which can be traced back to Spencer: the idea that individuals were no tabula rasa ; the belief that evolution was a beneficent process; and the idea that moral sentiment evolved towards perfection. I will also show why Jevons supported the idea of interventionist social reform, which Spencer rejected, and I will argue that this disagreement stemmed from Jevons' commitment to Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.53765/20512988.44.4.631
John Boersma
In the first section of Plato's Statesman, the Eleatic Stranger uses two methods to try to uncover the science of politics. The first method is that of diairesis — a dialectical method of division and classification. This method ultimately ends in failure and, in turn, the Stranger adopts a second method, which consists of an elaborate myth. In this article, I provide an account of the relationship between the diairesis and the myth and posit that together they teach that a humane account of the whole is required in order to understand the nature of politics.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.53765/20512988.44.4.655
Eero Arum
Recent scholarship has placed the concept of friendship at the centre of Aristotle's political thought. However, relatively little attention has been given to Aristotle's claim that political friendship is 'based on equality'. This article first explicates this claim as it appears in the Eudemian Ethics, where Aristotle asserts that the paradigmatic form of political friendship is based on 'arithmetic' rather than 'proportional' equality. Second, it shows that this 'egalitarian' conception of political friendship is fully consistent with theNicomachean Ethics and Politics — and in doing so, challenges a recent argument that the Eudemian Ethics was not genuinely written by Aristotle. Third, it argues that Aristotle's 'egalitarian' conception of political friendship motivates his advocacy of various economic arrangements and practices throughout the Politics, including but not limited to the 'common use' of property.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.53765/20512988.44.4.676
Shoufu Yin
This paper is a microhistory of a seventeenth-century approach to global political thought, one that seeks to theorize globally shared conditions beyond the East/West divide. It focuses on the Spanish thinker Domingo Fernández Navarrete, who, after his global travels, offered a unique account of a king's dual pains by comparing Liu Bei, a Chinese emperor, to Plato, Seneca, Aquinas, etc. It contends that Navarrete's embodied theory of kingship deepens the Thomist conception of the body politic and forms a part of the global re-reading of Liu Bei. In so doing, this paper also seeks to clarify different senses of globality and further the dialogue between global history and comparative political theory.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.53765/20512988.44.3.555
Mario Tesini, L. Zambernardi
Alessandro Manzoni is chiefly known for The Betrothed. What is less well-known is Manzoni's interest in writing history which in later life would bend his literary talent to reconstructing and analysing the French Revolution. Incomplete and published posthumously in 1889, Manzoni's last text appeared as The French Revolution of 1789 and the Italian Revolution of 1859: Comparative Observations. While Manzoni's literary and poetic works won him the reputation of being among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, the posthumous book on the French Revolution sank rapidly into oblivion. This article, while pointing out certain shortcomings in Manzoni's interpretation, argues that his analysis is to be taken seriously by all scholars interested in the thorny history of the French Revolution. In particular, Manzoni's narration concentrates on unveiling the political mechanics that link delegitimization of the old monarchical order with the ensuing power vacuum and, eventually, with anarchy and the Terror. In his opinion the latter was no accident of history, but the outcome of previous events, especially the political void created by destroying the government without managing to set up a new political order. Finally, the article presents Manzoni's analysis of the relationship between the people and the Terror, focusing on mass society with its collective delirium, and how it fared under a new dread form of despotism.
亚历山德罗·曼佐尼主要以《背叛者》而闻名。不太为人所知的是曼佐尼对历史写作的兴趣，这将使他在晚年的文学天赋转向重建和分析法国大革命。曼佐尼的最后一本著作《1789年法国大革命和1859年意大利大革命：比较观察》（The French Revolution of 1789 and The Italian Revolution：Comparative Observations）不完整，于1889年死后出版。虽然曼佐尼的文学和诗歌作品为他赢得了19世纪最伟大作家的声誉，但这本关于法国大革命的遗书却迅速被遗忘。这篇文章指出了曼佐尼的解释中的某些不足，认为所有对法国大革命这段棘手历史感兴趣的学者都应该认真对待他的分析。特别是，曼佐尼的叙述集中于揭示将旧君主制秩序的非合法性与随之而来的权力真空联系起来的政治机制，并最终与无政府状态和恐怖联系起来。在他看来，后者并非历史偶然，而是先前事件的结果，尤其是在没有建立新政治秩序的情况下摧毁政府所造成的政治空白。最后，文章介绍了曼佐尼对人民与恐怖之间关系的分析，重点是具有集体精神错乱的大众社会，以及它在新的专制恐惧形式下的表现。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.53765/20512988.44.3.427
Alexandra Grey
In 2019, Victor Davis Hason revived Popper's autarkic reading of Plato to justify the foreign policy of President Donald Trump, suggesting Trumpism aligns with Plato's project. This modern application compelled our re-examination of the autarkic tradition. Yet, the issues surrounding this false tradition did not end with Trump's 2021 unseating; this use of Plato reveals broader, perennial questions around abusing philosophy for electoral ends. Building on the work of Carol Atack and Allan Bloom, we unearth a tradition of moderate cosmopolitanism and suggest this cosmopolitan trend is the more accurate tradition of Plato and thus should be his enduring legacy.
2019年，维克多·戴维斯·哈森(Victor Davis Hason)重新引用了波普尔对柏拉图的自给自足的解读，为唐纳德·特朗普总统的外交政策辩护，表明特朗普主义与柏拉图的计划是一致的。这种现代应用迫使我们重新审视自给自足的传统。然而，围绕这一错误传统的问题并没有随着特朗普在2021年的下台而结束;柏拉图的这种用法揭示了围绕滥用哲学来达到选举目的的更广泛的、长期存在的问题。在Carol Atack和Allan Bloom的著作基础上，我们发现了一种温和的世界主义传统，并认为这种世界主义趋势是柏拉图更准确的传统，因此应该是他不朽的遗产。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.53765/20512988.44.3.452
J. Thakkar
This paper considers the relationship between the critique of moneymaking that Aristotle develops in Book I of the Politics and the rest of his social and political theory. I argue that there are several places where Aristotle ought to have drawn out the consequences of the former for the latter, and that his failure to do so reveals something about the deep structure of his way of thinking about political life. In short, Aristotle's account of economic life is constrained by his political ontology, according to which a polity consists in a particular arrangement and distribution of offices.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.53765/20512988.44.3.503
A. Vecchio
This article considers how Grotius' ideas on war have mirrored the nexus between the construction of a territorialized order of sovereign states, the emergence of a world-wide system of exchange and accumulation, and the dynamics of imperial expansion. It will be argued that in order to understand the scope and the ambivalences of the jurist's multifaceted account of the laws of war and his dealings with the traditional literature on just war, it is necessary to elucidate the spatial frameworks underlying his theory, as well as the complex and global geography of power existing in the early seventeenth century.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.53765/20512988.44.3.530
W. Little
There is an assumption in scholarship focused on seventeenth-century English political thought that the political ideology constructed by royalists writing during the Exclusion Crisis was similar to Robert Filmer's patriarchalism. This paper contests this assumption by focusing on the inconsistencies between Filmer's view of history and that of the Exclusion royalists. Filmer's Adamic history necessitated a static conception of sovereignty that placed virtually no limits on the monarch. Exclusion royalists, however, adopted a fluid and changing view of sovereignty that placed limitations on monarchical power and was motivated by histories grounded in the ancient constitution or the conquest of 1066.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.53765/20512988.44.3.577
Robert Goodman
Drawing on evidence from W. E. B. Du Bois's education, I argue that rhetoric is an important, yet overlooked, source of his concept of double consciousness. Du Bois transposed ideas of a divided self as a source of both power and anguish from classical rhetoric to the experience of racial oppression. I show how rhetoric supplies the 'causal mechanism' of double consciousness; readThe Souls of Black Folk as superimposed addresses to doubly- and singly-conscious audiences; and argue that Du Bois's 1930s turn to black-separatist cooperativism represents an attempted escape from double consciousness — and a recognition of rhetoric's limits under systemic injustice.
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