Showing papers in "History of European Ideas in 2022"

TL;DR: In this paper , Bow showed how Dugald Stewart passed on the distinctive intellectual framework constructed by Scotland's great eighteenth-century thinkers to the nineteenth century, and indirectly raised the question of when e/Enlightenment ended.

TL;DR: The separation between classical and modern liberalism that takes place in the fin de siècle is not just a matter of economics, as is shown by the fact that both Spencer and Constant are ardent apostles of laissez-faire as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: The authors show that Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the rights of woman (1792) was translated by Félicité Brissot de Warville, the wife of the prominent Girondin leader, Jacques-Pierre Brisso de Warvé, and annotated by both.

TL;DR: Fergus as mentioned in this paper argued that political representation was the pivotal conception for Ferguson to make empire and liberty compatible, and advocated the union with Ireland, which he believed would lead to a lasting balance of power in Europe.

TL;DR: In this article , the influence of the influence on Constant's position of his ambivalent attitude towards Rousseau on the one hand and the modernisation of Rousseau undertaken eighty years later by the British idealist Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) on the other.

TL;DR: McC McCabe's interpretation of Mill as a socialist is convincing but does not render his writings any less available to liberals as discussed by the authors , and he concludes that a Liberal-Socialist hybrid inspired by Mill could prove useful to the effort (begun recently by Axel Honneth) to re-found socialism on a non-Marxian basis.

TL;DR: In this article , it is argued that understanding the relation between the two freedoms depends on accepting ancient/positive liberty as practiced by the participants of modern revolutions, and that this freedom can both violate and complement modern/negative freedom.

TL;DR: The case of empirical psychology in eighteenth-century Germany has been examined in this article by examining the case of empirically motivated self-observations. But the difficulties in the development of a systematic method of psychological self-obsservations both complement and complicate the picture of how the subject became an obstacle to knowledge.

TL;DR: The concept and practice of listening to difference, as defined in this article , is an openness to listening to the voices and sounds of the othered by listeners who recognize their distinct situated, embodied positionalities.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue that it is fruitless to interpret Constant's modern liberty from the binary perspective of either the negative/positive freedom opposition or the liberal/republican freedom opposition.

TL;DR: The idea of modernity as constituted by the ancient/modern binary through an examination of Montesquieu's and Benjamin Constant's development of this binary in relation to their understandings of commerce, the law of nations and conquest, political rule and freedom in the context of European colonial empire is explored in this article .

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue that the development of Hersch Lauterpacht's concept of human rights constitutes an enhancement to the Rechtsstaatliche function of legal concepts and the role of legal scholars.

TL;DR: In this article , Berlin takes over from Constant an appeal to human nature without the idea of progress that had supported it, which involves altogether different understandings of the image of an ‘area’ preserved from interference.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the Institut Colonial International encouraged the exchange of ideas about the various colonial experiences in order to create common and universal principles of law, trying to establish a platform of common dialogue, with common premises, concerning different colonies, different colonial experiences and ultimately different cultural, social and political contexts.

TL;DR: McCabe as discussed by the authors made a patient, detailed, and nuanced case for thinking of Mill as a socialist, and the depth of her scholarship was discussed in detail in her excellent book.

TL;DR: In the post-war period, Raymond Aron as mentioned in this paper had an acute understanding of the issue of political violence in liberal democracies and argued that political violence appears to contradict the typical self-understanding of the societies whose functioning it informs, and a justification of the motives which may call for such violence becomes both a political and a philosophical problem when such a regime faces the necessity to resort to violent means of action.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors reconstruct the ordoliberal theoretical and political debate on European integration and argue that there exist two ordoliberal paradigms of European integration: one bottom-up, whereby the commitment to liberal economic policies at the national level is the precondition for a liberal international order; the other top-down, whereby a conservative international order can help the establishment of a liberal order at the local level.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe how Neo-Scholastic international lawyers navigated the complex political landscape of the 1920s and 30s, combining universalism, nationalism and religious belief, arguing that a universal morality, overruling the extremes of state sovereignty, was the only solid basis for just and stable global legal relations.

TL;DR: Piers Plowman and the reinvention of church law in the late middle ages is discussed in this article , where the authors present a history of European ideas, ahead-of-print(ahead-ofprint)

TL;DR: Conti as mentioned in this paper divides the reform debate into three distinct groups: the variety-of-su-rage theory, according to which only the variation in electoral regulations across constituencies could return an assembly representing the diversity of classes and interests in society; the second group comprises various proponents of proportional representation, who looked primarily for a Commons re fl ecting the national diversity of opinions.

TL;DR: Sungho Kimlee as mentioned in this paper summarized the work as follows: “Since antiquity, thinkers have held that every society consists of two hostile orders, the few and the many. But they have disagreed on the proper method for defusing this civic divide, and their various proposed remedies can be classified into three approaches.

TL;DR: Gibbon's Christianity as mentioned in this paper is a short book with 139 pages for the main text, with 50 odd pages of footnotes, and the focus is not all of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, just the first volume and the ‘General Observations.

TL;DR: The authors reconstructs Constant's positive conception of popular sovereignty, i.e., his conception of what popular sovereignty means within its limits and take it as the starting point of an analysis of Constant's understanding of democracy.

TL;DR: The idea of Europe could be built to transcend nations, manifesting itself as the individual's renunciation of himself and turning to unity and infinity as mentioned in this paper . But the political vision of Europe that Julien Benda hoped for should not generate European sovereignty.

TL;DR: Henrich as discussed by the authors argued that love is starting in the family and branching out from there to friends, the state and humanity at large, and that in the city-states of ancient Greece and in ancient Rome, with its celebrated example of the elder Brutus who was said to have refused to bend the law in favor of his own son when he had committed a capital offence.

TL;DR: A discussion on the history of religion in nineteenth-century German and British culture was held at Christ Church, Oxford in December 2019 as discussed by the authors, with a dual purpose to offer an innovative model for showcasing important new contributions to our understanding of religion and to foster the kind of thorough, critical engagement between junior and more senior scholars.

TL;DR: In the 1849 edition of the Principles of Political Economy, Mill wrote that Fourierism presented "in every respect the least open to objection, of the forms of Socialism" as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: Parliament the Mirror of the Nation as discussed by the authors examines mirror theories of representation as articulated by an ensemble cast that includes the liberal Walter Bagehot, many "reluctant democrats" and even "unclassifiable eccentrics" agitating for PR.