Political Legitimacy

Institutional Authority ◽

Contemporary Politics ◽

History Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Political Decisions ◽

Philosophical Questions

In Political Legitimacy, a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars in political science, law, and philosophy examine one of the most challenging and important concepts in contemporary politics: legitimacy. The twelve essays in this volume, the latest installment in the NOMOS series, take up fundamental philosophical questions about the appropriate scope and domain of legitimacy and the justified exercise of political power, as well as empirical questions about the structure of citizens’ beliefs about compliance and justice. The essays also speak to urgent concerns for contemporary politics, including whether “animus” should matter for the legitimacy of political decisions and the range of institutions (international institutions, labor unions, and so forth) for which legitimacy is relevant. The volume is in three parts. The first third addresses basic questions of the legitimacy of the state and its regime, drawing on competing traditions in the history of political thought (Kant, Hobbes, and Aristotle). The second takes up the reasons according to which institutional authority may be exercised. The final part turns to the empirical study of legitimacy and compliance, and to the relationship between what the authors describe as moral or normative accounts of legitimacy and sociological or descriptive legitimacy.

Conclusion—Rousseau’s paradox

The State of the Political ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197262870.003.0006 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Duncan Kelly

Keyword(s):

Political Thought ◽

Political Community ◽

The Political ◽

Social Democrat ◽

The Social ◽

Adequate Understanding ◽

History Of ◽

The Individual ◽

This chapter binds the book together, recapitulating its general argument, and offering pointers as to how the study relates to some contemporary questions of political theory. It suggests that a classification that distinguishes between Weber the ‘liberal’, Schmitt the ‘conservative’ and Neumann the ‘social democrat’, cannot provide an adequate understanding of this episode in the history of political thought. Nor indeed can it do so for other periods. In this book, one part of the development of their ideas has focused on the relationship between state and politics. By learning from their examples, people continue their own search for an acceptable balance between the freedom of the individual and the claims of the political community.

Review: Jeremy Waldron’s Political Political Theory

European Journal of Political Theory ◽

10.1177/1474885116671137 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 437-446

Author(s):

David Runciman

Keyword(s):

Political Theory ◽

Conceptual Understanding ◽

Political Thought ◽

Contemporary Politics ◽

History Of

This collection seeks to ground political theory in the study of institutions, particularly the constitutional relationship between different branches of government. It makes the case that ‘constitutionalism’ has become a thin doctrine of political restraint. Waldron wants to identify a fuller conceptual understanding of how the functions of government can be empowered and articulated. In doing so, he sets out a position that is distinct from both moralism and realism in contemporary political theory. I explore how well the later distinction holds up: how successfully does Waldron’s approach marry realist concerns with the rigour of analytical political theory? I also discuss the role it leaves for the history of political thought and whether it can deal with the populist strain in contemporary politics.

The Romance of Canada: Nationalism and Canadian Historiography

Canadian Historical Review ◽

10.3138/chr-102.s4.005 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 102 (s4) ◽

pp. s907-s976

Author(s):

Paul Litt

Keyword(s):

Historical Review ◽

Canadian Society ◽

Short Overview ◽

Contemporary Politics ◽

History Of ◽

Canadian Nationalism ◽

This is a short overview history of the relationship between Canadian historians and Canadian nationalism. It maps the historiography of Canadian nationalism against its significant manifestations in Canadian society and developments in nationalism scholarship internationally. Three conjunctures when the fate of the nation loomed large in Canadian historiography are featured. Evidence from the Canadian Historical Review (chr) is highlighted throughout, and, for each conjuncture, relevant articles from the chr are provided for further reading. In reflecting on this history, this article considers Canadian historians’ accomplishments and failures in understanding Canadian nationalism as well as the contemporary politics and praxis of their relationship with nation.

Reply to my critics

European Journal of Political Theory ◽

10.1177/14748851211002028 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 147488512110020

Author(s):

Ryan Patrick Hanley

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Political Thought ◽

Religion And Theology ◽

History Of ◽

Key Issues ◽

Relationship Of ◽

This reply to my five generous and insightful critics – Gianna Englert, David Williams, Alexandra Oprea, Geneviève Rousslière, and Brandon Turner – focuses on three key issues they raise: the relationship of past ideas to present politics, the utility of ideological labels in the history of political thought, and the relationship of political philosophy to religion and theology.

Human Rights: Moral or Political?

10.1093/oso/9780198713258.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Moral Rights ◽

Political Debate ◽

Main Text ◽

History Of ◽

Dual Status ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship ◽

Philosophical Questions

This volume explores philosophical questions raised by the dual status of human rights as moral rights, on the one hand, and legally, politically, and historically practised rights, on the other. Its topics include: the relevance of the history of human rights to their philosophical comprehension (Part I); the “Orthodox–Political” debate (II); how to properly understand the relationship between human rights morality and law (III); how to balance the normative character of human rights—their description of an ideal world—with the requirement that they be feasible in the here and now (IV); the role of human rights in a world shaped by politics and power (V); and how to reconcile the individualistic and communitarian aspects of human rights (VI). All chapters are accompanied by critical commentaries. And the volume includes a comprehensive introduction, which provides readers with a concise overview of the arguments in the main text.

Enigma Kejahatan dalam Sekam Filsafat Ketuhanan

Intizar ◽

10.19109/intizar.v22i1.542 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 23

Author(s):

Andri Fransiskus Gultom

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

Fundamental Question ◽

Existence Of God ◽

History Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Philosophical Questions

Artikel ini membahas tentang problematika kejahatan dalam kaitannya dengan keberadaan Tuhan. Kejahatan yang kerap dihadapi manusia dalam hidup menjadi persoalan yang coba diruntut berdasar perspektif filsafat ketuhanan. Dalam artikel ini, adanya kejahatan yang terdapat di dalam sepanjang sejarah kehidupan manusia, menghadirkan pertanyaan mendasar tentang keberadaan Tuhan. Tuhan yang diyakini sebagai Yang Maha Baik dihadapkan dengan realita kejahatan dalam kontestasi ide filosofis. Terdapat empat tema pembahasan yang berawal dari pertanyaan-pertanyaan filosofis perihal relasi kejahatan dengan ketuhanan, yaitu: apa itu teodise? Apa itu kejahatan? Beranjak dari pertanyaan tersebut, penulis mendapati bahwa kejahatan merupakan suatu kenyataan yang disebut dengan enigma. Kenyataan enigmatik yang dihadapi manusia dalam kehidupan tersebut memposisikan manusia sebagai subjek yang rentan (vulnerable subject) tatkala berhadapan dengan kejahatan. This article discusses about the problematics of crime in relation to the existence of God. Crimes that are often faced by humans in life have been problems that try tracing based on existence of god perspective. In this article, the crimes contained in the history of human life, presents a fundamental question about the existence of God. God is believed to be the Most Good confronted with the reality of crime in the contestation of philosophical ideas. There are four discussion themes which start from the philosophical questions regarding the relationship with Divinity crime, namely: what is it theodicy? What is crime? Moving on from these questions, the authors found that the crime is a reality called the Enigma. The fact of the Enigmatic faced by humans in the life has been positioned that humans as a vulnerable subject whenthey are dealing with crime.

Controversions of imprisonmet and prisons

Sociologija ◽

10.2298/soc1804750i ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 60 (4) ◽

pp. 750-768 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Djordje Ignjatovic

Keyword(s):

Penal System ◽

Prison Sentence ◽

Institutional Staff ◽

History Of ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Political Decisions

It is likely that there is no phenomenon that has led to more discussion and which has caused such contradictory assessments as the case of the prison sentence and the penitentiary institutions in which it is carried out. It seems that criminologists and penologists can not agree on any matter related to the prison sentence and penitentiary institution - from when they were created - to the explanation of why they survive despite all the criticism. After a brief review of the history of imprisonment and penitentiary institutions, the paper highlights the basic problems of modern penitentiary systems related to institutions, the population in them, the institutional staff and the relationship of the society towards them. It also pointed to attempts to find an exit from the crisis of the penitentiary system in order to eventually find an answer to the question: why does society, despite all the controversies that have been accompanying them for two centuries, continues to hold deprivation of liberty and penitentiary institutions as a key part of the penal system? The answer is: because it suits those who make strategic political decisions, but also the opinions of citizens about what to do with offenders. The most that science can do today is to influence the development of awareness that there are other ways of reacting and that there are people in the penitentiaries who, in order to protect the society, do not have to be there; also, and to influence that those who are there are provided with the conditions of a decent person, and to devise such treatments that will reduce the recidivism.

GENDER IN THE HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x17000061 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 60 (4) ◽

pp. 843-863 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

ANNA BECKER

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

Political Thought ◽

The Political ◽

The Public ◽

Modern Politics ◽

History Of ◽

Relationship Of ◽

AbstractIn the history of early modern political thought, gender is not well established as a subject. It seems that early modern politics and its philosophical underpinnings are characterized by an exclusion of women from the political sphere. This article shows that it is indeed possible to write a gendered history of early modern political thought that transcends questions of the structural exclusion of women from political participation. Through a nuanced reading of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century commentaries on Aristotle's practical philosophy, it deconstructs notions on the public/political and private/apolitical divide and reconstructs that early modern thinkers saw the relationship of husband and wife as deeply political. The article argues that it is both necessary and possible to write gender in and into the history of political thought in a historically sound and firmly contextual way that avoids anachronisms, and it shows – as Joan Scott has suggested – that gender is indeed a ‘useful category’ in the history of political thought.

Oral Testimony and the History of Medicine

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546497.013.0033 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kate Fisher

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

Medical History ◽

International Institutions ◽

Medical Treatments ◽

The Past ◽

Personal Experiences ◽

Oral Testimony ◽

History Of ◽

Epidemiological Trends ◽

This article surveys the historiographical trends in medical history that have fostered the rise in the use of oral history. It discusses different approaches that serve to bring individual experiences and human agents into the historical frame, humanizing our understanding of the national and international institutions, professions, governments, and organizations that shape medical history. Oral history reveals the clinicians behind changing medical treatments and the personal experiences behind patient populations or epidemiological trends. This article argues, however, that oral history needs to do more; rather, it should aim to chart and explore the relationship between the structures of medicine and human experience. Furthermore, it discusses that oral testimony does not document the past, but is an individual's interpretation of it; historians therefore need to interrogate it as such, exploring why people remember in certain ways, what is forgotten or misremembered, and what such memories mean for the present.

Beyond ‘The Banality of Evil’

British Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0007123400002325 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 417-439 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Barry Clarke

Keyword(s):

Banality Of Evil ◽

Mass Society ◽

Political Work ◽

Major Exception ◽

Life Of The Mind ◽

History Of ◽

Phenomenological Account ◽

The Mind ◽

Although the relevance of evil to politics occupies a large part of the history of political thought few modern political theorists have paid sustained attention to the relationship between the political evils of our times and our understanding of the concept of evil. A major exception to this is Hannah Arendt. For Arendt the evils of totalitarianism, genocide and ‘administrative massacre’ have provided the material for the basic questions to which her thinking has been directed. In the posthumously published The Life of the Mind Arendt appears to depart from her concern with the evils of mass society; the work is outwardly a phenomenological account of some aspects of the history of Western thought. It is, however possible to see this work as a metaphysic for her more overtly political work. Viewed in this way it can also be used to deepen understanding of her concept of the ‘banality of evil’. This notion, which she first introduced in her report of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, became central to her understanding of one part of the Nazi phenomenon.