Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions to issues of public concern - all complemented by his many works on ethics, which have important implications for political theory. This new collection of essays, most of them previously unpublished, addresses many of the core subjects of political philosophy: justice, liberty, and equality; the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear of power; democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself. A central theme throughout is that political philosophers need to engage more directly with the realities of political life, not simply with the theories of other philosophers. Williams makes this argument in part through a searching examination of where political thinking should originate, to whom it might be addressed, and what it should deliver. Williams had intended to weave these essays into a connected narrative on political philosophy with reflections on his own experience of postwar politics. Sadly he did not live to complete it, but this book brings together many of its components. Geoffrey Hawthorn has arranged the material to resemble as closely as possible Williams' original design and vision. He has provided both an introduction to Williams' political philosophy and a bibliography of his formal and informal writings on politics. Those who know the work of Bernard Williams will find here the familiar hallmarks of his writing - originality, clarity, erudition, and wit. Those who are unfamiliar with, or unconvinced by, a philosophical approach to politics, will find this an engaging introduction. Both will encounter a thoroughly original voice in modern political theory and a searching approach to the shape and direction of liberal political thought in the past thirty-five years.
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读的第一本BW的书居然是从后人编的未刊著作,实在有点旁门左道的嫌疑。头脑很清楚,提的问题很尖锐,尤其是作为标题的这篇文章,很敏锐。但结论往往“不置可否”……
评分看过标题文章:太初有为。其意思是:岂有文章觉天下 百无一用是教条。
评分英国佬所谓现实感,其实就是一种历史感,既对自身所处的方位有恰到好处的敏锐,又坦然面对其偶然。但这种悠哉游哉、唧唧歪歪的看问题态度,对一群仍然处在四面楚歌的态势当中的人而言,可能还是有点奢侈了。
评分读的第一本BW的书居然是从后人编的未刊著作,实在有点旁门左道的嫌疑。头脑很清楚,提的问题很尖锐,尤其是作为标题的这篇文章,很敏锐。但结论往往“不置可否”……
评分第四章Modernity and the substance of moral life 包治“昨日的世界”综合症
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