Limits and renewals
By: Stephen R. L. Clark.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Philosophy.; Political obligation.; Political science -- Philosophy.
Description: "This book is an ambitious and challenging restatement of traditional political philosophy. The first of a three-volume series, Limits and Renewals, the book is concerned with the nature of political society, particularly with the errors and faulty arguments that have been used to support a "liberal modernist" view of the state and our political system. Clark argues that political modernism, which is determinedly secular and untraditional, has been a destructive influence on religion and our understanding of community living. In order to secure a decent social order, he contends, we must rediscover our allegiance to a sacred order that is represented by, for example, family loyalties, a respect for tradition, and attention to the wider interests of the global and historical community." -
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Civil peace and sacred order.; title: v. 2. A parliament of souls.