Anarchy, state, and utopia

Scholars of culture, humanities and social sciences have increasingly come to an appreciation of the importance of the legal domain in social life, while critically engaged socio-legal scholars around the world have taken up the task of understanding "Law's Empire" in all of its cultural, political, and economic dimensions. The questions arising from these intersections, and addressing imperialisms past and present forms the subject matter of a special symposium issue of Social Identities under the editorship of Griffith University's Rob McQueen, and UBC's Wes Pue and with contributions from McQueen, Ian Duncanson, Renisa Mawani, David Williams, Emma Cunliffe, Chidi Oguamanam, W. Wesley Pue, Fatou Camara, and Dianne Kirkby. This paper introduces the volume, forthcoming in late 2007. The central problematique of this issue has previously been explored through the 2005 Law's Empire conference, an informal but vibrant postcolonial legal studies network.

Law's Empire

政治自由主义 = Political liberalism

Preface to the Second Edition Part 1: Philosophical Bearings 1. Aims and Strategy 2. The Underlabourer Conception of Philosophy 3. Philosophy and Science 4. The Philosopher's Concern with Language 5. Conceptual and Empirical Enquiries 6. The Pivotal Role of Epistemology in Philosophy 7. Epistemology and the Understanding of Society 8. Rules: Wittgenstein's Analysis 9. Some Misunderstandings of Wittgenstein Part 2: The Nature of Meaningful Behaviour 1. Philosophy and Sociology 2. Meaningful Behaviour 3. Activities and Precepts 4. Rules and Habits 5. Reflectiveness Part 3: The Social Studies as Science 1. J.S. Mill's 'Logic of the Moral Sciences' 2. Differences in Degree and Differences in Kind 3. Motives and Causes 4. Motives, Dispositions and Reasons 5. The Investigation of Regularities 6. Understanding Social Institutions 7. Prediction in the Social Studies Part 4: The Mind and Society 1. Pareto: Logical and Non-Logical Conduct 2. Pareto: Residues and Derivations 3. Max Weber: Verstehen and Causal Explanation 4. Max Weber: Meaningful Action and Social Action Part 5: Concepts and Actions 1. The Internality of Social Relations 2. Discursive and Non-Discursive 'Ideas' 3. The Social Sciences and History 4. Concluding Remark

The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy.

The morality of freedom

Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature.

This article sets out some of the key features of a realist critique of liberal moralism, identifying descriptive inadequacy and normative irrelevance as the two fundamental lines of criticism. It then sketches an outline of a political theory of modus vivendi as an alternative, realist approach to political theory. On this account a modus vivendi should be understood as any political settlement that involves the preservation of peace and security and is generally acceptable to those who are party to it. In conclusion, some problems with this conception of modus vivendi and with a realist political theory more generally are discussed. In particular, the question is raised of whether a realist political theory should be understood as an alternative to liberal moralism or only a better way of doing basically the same kind of thing.

Realism, liberal moralism and a political theory of modus vivendi

This article is a contribution to a critical exploration of the liberal project of normatively justifying basic political principles. The specific focus is John Rawls's use of the idea of public reason. After briefly discussing the evolution of Rawls's ideas from A Theory of Justice to his most recent writings, the key components of his conception of public reason are set out. Two principal lines of criticism are developed. The first is that the criteria of legitimacy Rawls establishes for a democratic procedure are unworkably demanding. The second is that there is no reason to think that resort to the idea of public reason will significantly constrain the scope of substantive political disagreement within a constitutional democracy. The article concludes with a few speculative reflections about the relevance of the limitations of Rawls's account of public reason for the project of liberal justification more generally.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fpalgrave.cpt.9300070.pdf

Rawls, Public Reason and the Limits of Liberal Justification

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A Theory of Social Justice

Preface. 1. Alasdair MacIntyre: After Virtue: John Horton and Susan Mendus (University of York). 2. Justice After Virtue: Charles Taylor. 3. Reclaiming the Aristotelian Ruler: Peter Johnson. 4. MacIntyre and Aquinas: Janet Coleman. 5. MacIntyrea s Thomist Revival: What Next?: John Haldane. 6. Projecting the Enlightenment: Robert Wokler. 7. MacIntyrea s Critique of Utilitarianism: Paul Kelly. 8. MacIntyre and Historicism: Robert Stern. 9. MacIntyrea s Fusion of History and Philosophy: Gordon Graham. 10. Liberal/Communitarian: MacIntyrea s Mesmeric Dichotomy: Philip Pettit. 11. Liberalism, Morality and Rationality: MacIntyre, Rawls and Cavell: Stephen Mulhall. 12. MacIntyre on Liberalism and its Critics: Tradition, Incommensurability and Disagreement: Andrew Mason. 13. Virtues, Practices and Justice: David Miller. 14. MacIntyre, Feminism and the Concept of Practice: Elizabeth Frazer and Nicola Lacey. 15. A Partial Response to My Critics: Alasdair MacIntyre. Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre. Index.

John Horton

Papers

Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature.

Realism, liberal moralism and a political theory of modus vivendi

Rawls, Public Reason and the Limits of Liberal Justification

A Theory of Social Justice

After MacIntyre : critical perspectives on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre