Conservatism and Pragmatism [electronic resource] : In Law, Politics, and Ethics /
Vannatta, S.author.
Conservatism and Pragmatism illustrates the intersections between classical British Conservative thought and classical American Pragmatist philosophy with regard to methodology in politics, ethics, and law.
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Cover ; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Rationalism in Politics and Ethics; 1 Enlightenment Political Theory and British Conservatism; Social contracts and states of nature; Kant's transcendental politics; Paine's radicalism; Burke's conservatism; Burke's progressivism; 2 Enlightenment Moral Theory and British Conservatism; Utilitarian moral theory; Deontology; Scottish common sense philosophy; British conservatives: harbingers of pragmatism; Part II The Question of History; 3 The 19th Century and History; G.W.F. Hegel
Karl MarxCharles Darwin; Sir Henry Maine; 4 The Problem of History; Foundations for science; Historical positivism; Postmodernism and neo-pragmatism; Historical relativism; Problems for history; 5 Conservative and Pragmatist Historical Inquiry; Dewey's history qua inquiry; Oakeshott's inferential history of the present; Gadamer's hermeneutics; Part III Normative Methodologies in Law, Ethics, and Politics; 6 Pragmatist Responses to Enlightenment Reason; Peirce on Cartesian "capacities"; Peirce on Cartesian doubt; Dewey's reconstruction of the quest for certainty
F.A. Hayek's evolutionary epistemology7 Conservatism and Pragmatism in Holmes's Jurisprudence; Holmes's pragmatism; Holmes's critique of legal formalism; Peircean foundations for the external standard; Judicial restraint and experimentalism; 8 The Aesthetic Dimensions of Moral Experience; Taste and reflective judgment; Holmes's pragmatist ethics; John Dewey's moral theory; Reflection and imagination; Peirce's conservative moral philosophy; 9 The Conservative Mind by Comparative Analysis; Burke and Dewey; Gadamer and Dewey; Oakeshott and Dewey; Oakeshott and Peirce
10 Conservative and Pragmatist PoliticsUtopianism; Meliorism; Conservatism and critical philosophies; The claims of conservative politics; Conclusion: Detachment and Engagement in Conservatism and Pragmatism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conservatism and Pragmatism illustrates the intersections between classical British Conservative thought and classical American Pragmatist philosophy with regard to methodology in politics, ethics, and law.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Pragmatism.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Pragmatism.