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Author:   Terry Nardin (National University of Singapore)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9781138306349

ISBN 10:   1138306347
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   12 January 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Rationality in politics and its limits 1. Political philosophy and the attraction of realism Reply - Realism and imagination: a response to Kelly 2. Hobbes and human irrationality Reply - Sovereigns and citizens: a response to Field 3. Reason, statecraft and the art of war: a politique reassessment Reply - Morality and contingency: a response to Jones 4. Thumos and rationality in Plato’s Republic Reply - Argument and imagination: a reply to Tarnopolsky 5. ‘A habitual disposition to the good’: on reason, virtue and realism Reply - Reason, faith and modernity: a response to Pabst 6. Oakeshott on theory and practice Reply - Oakeshott on the theory-practice problem: a reply to Terry Nardin 7. Franz Jägerstätter as social critic Reply - The social critic and universal morality: a response to Finn Rebuttal to Roff

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Terry Nardin is Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (1983) and The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (2001), and editor of Michael Oakeshott’s Cold War Liberalism (2014).

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