Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism : Rawls, Whitehead, Hartshorne

Dombrowski, Daniel A.

Edinburgh University Press（2019/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474453400
• DDC分類 320.51

Full Description

Daniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of the 20th-century philosophy's greatest political liberal, John Rawls, with the thought of the great process philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. He shows that political liberalism is intimately linked with process philosophy, renaming it 'process liberalism'. He justifies this process liberalism in contrast to four potentially troublesome sources or influences: metaphysics, religion, right-wing politics and left-wing politics. Dombrowski engages a series of interlocutors and alternative positions including Franklin I. Gamwell, Timothy D. Snyder, Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx. In conclusion, he offers a compelling, intricate and resourceful argument for nonhuman animal rights based on Rawlsian principles, which in turn forms the basis of a future environmental ethics.

Contents

Introduction

1. Reflective Equilibrium as a Process

2. Political Liberalism and Process Thought

3. Gamwell on 'The Comprehensive Question': A Rawlsian Critique

4: Religion, Solitude-in-Solidarity, and the Bloodlands

5. Heidegger, Political Philosophy, and Disequilibrium

6. Organic Marxism and Process Liberalism

7. From Nonhuman Animals to the Environment

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