Patriotism and Other MistakesYale University Press, 2006-01-01 - 422 psl. George Kateb has been one of the most respected and influential political theorists of the last quarter century. His work stands apart from that of many of his contemporaries and resists easy summary. In these essays Kateb often admonishes himself, in Socratic fashion, to keep political argument as far as possible negative: to be willing to assert what we are not, and what we will not do, and to build modestly from there some account of what we are and what we ought to do. Drawing attention to the non-rational character of many motives that drive people to construct and maintain a political order, he urges greater vigilance in political life and cautions against "mistakes" not usually acknowledged as such. Patriotism is one such mistake, too often resulting in terrible brutality and injustices. He asks us to consider how commitments to ideals of religion, nation, race, ethnicity, manliness, and courage find themselves in the service of immoral ends, and he exhorts us to remember the dignity of the individual. The book is divided into three sections. In the first, Kateb discusses the expansion of state power (including such topics as surveillance) and the justifications for war recently made by American policy makers. The second section offers essays in moral psychology, and the third comprises fresh interpretations of major thinkers in the tradition of political thought, from Socrates to Arendt. |
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... immoral attachment to means and methods apart from ends. Of course every- day politics concerns itself with limited ends attained by familiar means. But when a society has surplus strength it will undertake policies that partake of the ...
... immoral attachment to means and methods apart from ends. Of course every- day politics concerns itself with limited ends attained by familiar means. But when a society has surplus strength it will undertake policies that partake of the ...
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... immoral effects. I am not sure that this proposition or proposal is right. But at least I believe that aesthetic proclivities, for which I use the comprehensive term aestheticism in some of these essays , names Introduction xv.
... immoral effects. I am not sure that this proposition or proposal is right. But at least I believe that aesthetic proclivities, for which I use the comprehensive term aestheticism in some of these essays , names Introduction xv.
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... immoral effects , those that are not only unjust or even worse , oppressive , but often evil . The association of beauty or sublimity with evil is not a new thought , but it is still worth further contemplation . Existential values ...
... immoral effects , those that are not only unjust or even worse , oppressive , but often evil . The association of beauty or sublimity with evil is not a new thought , but it is still worth further contemplation . Existential values ...
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... immoral , even when , as in the example of due process of law , the whole aspiration is toward morality . The second example of anti - instrumentalism is commitment to the view that virtues or traits of character displayed in the ...
... immoral , even when , as in the example of due process of law , the whole aspiration is toward morality . The second example of anti - instrumentalism is commitment to the view that virtues or traits of character displayed in the ...
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... and perhaps moral conduct becomes less likely to occur . These are serious deficiencies , but natu- rally they do not convert a moral act , done for bad reasons or by a bad character , into an immoral one ; the moral " Introduction xxxi.
... and perhaps moral conduct becomes less likely to occur . These are serious deficiencies , but natu- rally they do not convert a moral act , done for bad reasons or by a bad character , into an immoral one ; the moral " Introduction xxxi.
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