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- W1802001728 abstract "The purpose of this thesis is to ask: what are issues that divide today's Liberals, Rawls, Dworkin, and Kymlicka for example, from their Communitarian critics, Sandel, Taylor, MacIntyre and so forth, and how may we see political theorizing of Michael Oakeshott as going some way to answering, explaining and criticizing these issues. At root, it would appear that principal issue that divides Liberals from Communitarians is agency: what it is, how it ought to be understood, and normative consequences that are regarded as following from such differing understandings. In case of Liberals, they are said to employ an unembedded or emotivist conception of self plainly indebted to Kant, with normative consequences being that of justification and promulgation of procedural republic in which impartial justice is regarded as the first virtue of social institutions. The Communitarians, by contrast, are regarded as employing a more Hegelian conception of agency, one in which practice precedes principal, justice is an important element in a complex whole, and normative consequences are that of promulgation of a perfectionist of good. However, in this dissertation, I dispute that issue that divides Liberals from Communitarians is one of philosophy. I prefer in-stead to suggest it is actually one of politics and that such politics as it is composed can best be seen by examining respective political dispositions, though not philosophies, of Kant and Hegel, and through lenses of Oakeshott's understanding of Rationalism in Politics. I say this because while Liberals and Communitarians borrow political dispositions of Kant and Hegel, they eschew metaphysics with which Kant and Hegel underwrote their political philosophies, and it is from such metaphysics that they acquire their normative legitimacy. However, without such metaphysics, they merely become examples of what Oakeshott terms Rationalism in Politics. Once I have staked out these two 'dispositions' in political theorizing in Chapters 4 and 5, I then examine respective relevant expositors of these dispositions in current debate. John Rawls's A Theory of Justice will be examined in Chapter 6 as paradigm example of Deontological Liberalism. Chapters 7 and 8 will examine Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor's critique of contemporary theory and practice of Liberalism respectively. Chapter 9 will examine Richard Rorty's attempt at a post-modern ideal. Liberal utopia as a response to our current condition, and lastly, in chapter 10, I shall examine Oakeshott's ideal character of civil association as presented in On Human Conduct as a non-normative resolution of certain important facets of Liberal-Communitarian debate. Chapter 11 shall provide a summary of dissertation so far, as well as examine alternative politics of truly rational conduct. By constructing dissertation in this way, I hope to demonstrate following points: One, that today's debate is as much about politics as it is philosophy; two, that there really is much more common ground between Liberals and Communitarians than either side is willing to recognize; three, that Liberal-Communitarian debate is much more parochial and historically bound than might otherwise be thought; and lastly, that in Oakeshott's critique of what he calls Rationalism in Politics, which I examine in Chapter 3, standing on shoulders of his idealist conception of philosophy presented in Experience and its Modes, we may gain a perspective and critique of debate that would otherwise remain hidden." @default.
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- W1802001728 title "The idea of freedom in Michael Oakeshott and the contemporary liberal-communitarian debate" @default.
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