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Bezig met laden... THE PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY (origineel 1955; editie 1960)door Walter Lippman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Lippmann takes the view that "the growing debility of modern democracy is due to loss of faith in natural law." This is a Platonic position, i.e., ideas drive reality. It became the fashion in Greece after democracy had broken down, and it proved unable to avoid the further disintegration of society. This philosophic approach is authoritarian because it inculcates ideas from above that are in opposition to common sense rather than from conversation that appeals to tradition. Authoritarianism appears after custom breaks down. It is possible that democracy may be breaking down but it does not follow that this threat can be averted by an undemocratic philosophy. Revolutions try to change the public mind from above. The Jacobins were uncommonly doctrinaire in trying to make their countrymen swallow the whole system of republican morality in one gulp, and in the process, they not only came to grief themselves but very nearly succeeded in discrediting the democratic cause in France. Lippmann is hard on the Jacobins despite the similarities. Finally, Lippmann does not acknowledge that society is pluralistic. Lippmann's ideas lead to a universal church that Thomists might like but that liberals will not. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Begun in 1938 and completed only in 1955, The Public Philosophy offers as much a glimpse into the private philosophy of America's premier journalist of the twentieth century as it does a public philosophy.The basis of Lippmann's effort is "that there is a deep disorder in our society which comes not from the machinations of our enemies and from the adversaries of the human condition but from within ourselves." He also provides a special sort of legacy to liberalism in its broadest sense - as the root approach to human existence that could provide civility and accommodation against incivilities and extremism, and that uniquely stood against the totalitarian counter-revolutions from Jacobism to Leninism. This work is a masterful defense of the public philosophy as a constitutional tradition, and can be easily read as such today.Paul Roazen, long identified with the analysis of Lippmann's work, points out that no matter how trenchantly Lippmann dissected democracy, and the populist faith in the people's wisdom, he still sought to study the world in order to help govern it. His constant flow of journalistic writing had the educative intent of raising the level of the public's knowledge. His rationalist conviction that clearheadedness on public matters can be effectively relayed to people is nowhere more evident than in The Public Philosophy. In this sense it is an argument for the democratic ideal that people can be rallied in defense of the public interest. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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