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Theory and practice /

With 16 original essays all published here for the first time, Theory and Practicefocuses on the relationship between philosophical tradition and everyday life in the Western tradition. In this comprehensive volume, Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner DeCew have gathered contributions from some of the mos...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: American Philosophical Association. Eastern Division, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Annual Meeting
Otros Autores: DeCew, Judith Wagner (Editor ), Shapiro, Ian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©1995.
Colección:Nomos ; 37.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF THE DEBATE ON THEORY AND PRACTICE; 1. The Decline and Repudiation of the Whole: Notes on Aristotle's Enclosure of the Pre-Socratic World; 2. Kant on Theory and Practice; PART II: THE VALUE OF PURE THEORY; 3. High Theory, Low Theory, and the Demands of Morality; 4. Psychological Realism and Moral Theory; 5. What Plato Would Allow; PART III: ARGUMENTS FOR THE PRIORITY OF PRACTICE; 6. "Lawyer for Humanity:" Theory and Practice in Ancient Political Thought; 7. The Theoretical Importance of Practice.
  • 8. Avoidable Necessity: Global Warming, International Fairness, and Alternative EnergyPART IV: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE LAW; 9. On Legal Theory and Legal Practice; 10. Religious Resistance to the Kantian Sovereign; 11. On Regulating Practices with Theories Drawn from Them: A Case of Justice as Fairness; PART V: THE PUBLIC IMPLICATIONS OF THEORY; 12. Public Practical Reason: Political Practice; 13. "Truth" or Consequences; PART VI: PRACTITIONERS AS THEORISTS; 14. The End of Morality? Theory, Practice, and the "Realistic Outlook" of Karl Marx.
  • 15. Heidegger and Political Philosophy: The Theory of His Practice16. A Performer of Political Thought: Václav Havel on Freedom and Responsibility; Index.