The Legacy of British Idealism in Political Thought and Today’s Problems of State Building: Michael Henkel

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
State Building ◽  
British Idealism

30. Oakeshott

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Boucher
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Background Theory ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
Civil Association ◽  
British Idealism ◽  
Politics And Law

This chapter examines Michael Oakeshott's political thought, beginning with a discussion of his scepticism and its relation to the background theory of British idealism that informs all aspects of his philosophy. It then considers Oakeshott's belief that philosophy is the uncovering and questioning of the postulates upon which all our forms of understanding rest. Oakeshott has been characterized as a conservative, a liberal, and an ideologist, but this chapter argues that he was neither conservative nor liberal in any party-political sense. It goes on to analyse Oakeshott's views on the rationalist in politics, civil association and the rule of law, and politics and law as well as his characterization of the modern European state. The chapter concludes by assessing the importance Oakeshott attached to myth and legend in the self-consciousness of a society.

Murray, Andrew Howson (1905–97)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Sweet
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
South African ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Political Pluralism ◽  
British Idealism

One of the leading South African philosophers of the twentieth century, Murray was best known as a public intellectual and for his work in political thought. He was deeply influenced by the Calvinist tradition and by British idealism, finding in both the premises for what he called a liberal political pluralism. An opponent of communism and individualism, Murray was led by this pluralism to embrace a mitigated form of apartheid, which be believed would preserve cultural diversity and ensure authentic cultural development.

scholarly journals The Polish problem in Russian conservative political thought in mid-19th century

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Yurii Zemskyi ◽  
Oleksandr Trygub
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
State Building ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
The Russian Empire

Liberal reforms of Tsar Alexander II after Russia’s defeat in the Crimean War gave the Poles great hopes for satisfying their state-building aspirations. Russians also demanded reformation of all spheres of life of the empire. But from the middle of 1862, the Russian press succeeded to rouse pro-imperial sentiments among the Russian public, using anti-Polish rhetoric. This so-called “Polish threat” became a means of mobilizing Russians to defend their «motherland», which was identical in their understanding to the concept of empire. Reputable Russian publicists stated the conviction that allowing the Poles to create a state is equivalent to provoking a collapse of the Russian state. Thus, the Poles should be left in the Russian Empire, but at the same time, they should become Slavs again, that is, to “awake” in them the specific Slavic culture they had lost, becoming Catholics and cultivating their gentry noble values. Polish peasantry was considered being the basis of the «re-education» of Polish society, and, according to the Russians, preserved a specific Slavic identity, therefore had allegedly “pro-Russian” sentiments that only need to be supported with the correct reforms.

Political Ethics or the Art of Being a Man

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-183
Author(s):  
Pankaj Jha
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
State Building ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Sanskrit Text ◽  
Political Ethics ◽  
Ideal State ◽  
The World

Turning to Vidyapati’s famous treatise on masculinity, Puruṣaparīkṣā, this chapter explores its framing and genre, its ideas and stories. This Sanskrit text sought to entertain and to educate young men about state building and ideal forms of manliness. The world of Sanskrit political thought found a contemporarized as well as classicized articulation in the text. The text attempted to weave discriminatory regimes of gender and caste into notions of ideal state and ethical conduct. Yet it is done through complex and entertaining stories, deriving its authority from history, common sense, and occasionally the Vedas. Again, the author is seen to be playing upon a conjunction of comparable features of Persian and Sanskrit literary tradition especially where articulations of exemplary masculinity (jawanmardi/paurusa) is concerned. The chapter also shows how a discourse on nīti (political ethics) was actually undergirded by precepts of dharma.

scholarly journals Malkom Khan’s Approach Toward Political Modernization from above in Iran

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Kamyab Shahriari
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
State Building ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Traditional Structure ◽  
Political Modernization

Malkom Khan (1833-1908) was a very significant scholar in the Qajar and constitutional era and the first to propose political modernization in order to change the traditional structure of government and replace it with a new and modern one. He was aware of the fact that Iran’s backwardness and chaotic situation was the result of the traditional and despotic political structure of government. This paper examines the political thought of Malkom Khan and his approach toward modernization of the political structure of government in the first period of his political life as activist and theorist. Research shows that his approach toward the political modernization program was political modernization from above or in other words, a form of state-building. His strategy to accomplish this goal can be described as getting Iranians to accept western civilization and the principles of order without changing them.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Thomas Carlyle to British Idealism, c. 1880–1930

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 439-468
Author(s):  
Alexander Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
British Idealism

That the great Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) exercised a formative influence over the ‘British Idealism’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been noted by historians. However, this has been done so in passing, on the basis of a small fraction of the relevant source material. Through a close, comprehensive and sustained analysis of the entire corpus of relevant sources, the current article demonstrates that the British Idealists considered Carlyle to be far and away the most important British (Scottish) thinker of the nineteenth century, and considered themselves to be his heirs in almost every sense imaginable. Indeed, this is true of their theology, their ethics and their social and political thought.

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