Theory and Practice : : Nomos XXXVII /

Theory and Practice : : Nomos XXXVII / / ed. by Judith Wagner Decew, Ian Shapiro.

With 16 original essays all published here for the first time, Theory and Practice focuses on the relationship between philosophical tradition and everyday life in the Western tradition. In this comprehensive volume, Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner DeCew have gathered contributions from some of the mo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Bethke Elshtain, Jean,
Brison, Susan J.,
Carter, Stephen L.,
Greenawalt, Kent,
Kamm, Frances M.,
Kane, John,
Michelman, Frank I.,
Murphy, Jeffrie G.,
Nussbaum, Martha C.,
Postema, Gerald J.,
Shapiro, Ian,
Shue, Henry,
Smith, Steven B.,
Sunstein, Cass R.,
Thompson, Norma,
Wagner Decew, Judith,
Waldron, Jeremy,
Wong, David B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Decew, Judith Wagner,
Shapiro, Ian,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1995]
©1995
Year of Publication:1995
Language:English
Series:NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • NOMOS
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF THE DEBATE ON THEORY AND PRACTICE
  • 1. The Decline and Repudiation of the Whole: Notes on Aristotle's Enclosure of the Pre-Socratic World
  • 2. Kant on Theory and Practice
  • PART II: THE VALUE OF PURE THEORY
  • 3. High Theory, Low Theory, and the Demands of Morality
  • 4. Psychological Realism and Moral Theory
  • 5. What Plato Would Allow
  • PART III: ARGUMENTS FOR T H E PRIORITY OF PRACTICE
  • 6. "Lawyer for Humanity:" Theory and Practice in Ancient Political Thought
  • 7. The Theoretical Importance of Practice
  • 8. Avoidable Necessity: Global Warming, International Fairness, and Alternative Energy
  • PART IV: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE LAW
  • 9. On Legal Theory and Legal Practice
  • 10. Religious Resistance to the Kantian Sovereign
  • 11. On Regulating Practices with Theories Drawn from Them: A Case of Justice as Fairness
  • PART V: THE PUBLIC IMPLICATIONS OF THEORY
  • 12. Public Practical Reason: Political Practice
  • 13. " Truth" or Consequences
  • PART VI: PRACTITIONERS AS THEORISTS
  • 14. The End of Morality? Theory, Practice, and the "Realistic Outlook" of Karl Marx
  • 15. Heidegger and Political Philosophy: The Theory of His Practice
  • 16. A Performer of Political Thought: Václav Havel on Freedom and Responsibility
  • Index

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