The twilight of the Liberal Social Contract? On the Reception of Rawlsian Political Liberalism

This chapter discusses the Rawlsian project of public reason, or public justification-based 'political' liberalism, and its reception. After a brief philosophical rather than philological reconstruction of the project, the chapter revolves around a distinction between idealist and realist responses to it. Focusing on political liberalism’s critical reception illuminates an overarching question: was Rawls’s revival of a contractualist approach to liberal legitimacy a fruitful move for liberalism and/or the social contract tradition? The last section contains a largely negative answer to that question. Nonetheless the chapter's conclusion shows that the research programme of political liberalism provided and continues to provide illuminating insights into the limitations of liberal contractualism, especially under conditions of persistent and radical diversity. The programme is, however, less receptive to challenges to do with the relative decline of the power of modern states

Constitutivism

A brief explanation and overview of constitutivism

Philosophy of action

The philosophical study of human action begins with Plato and Aristotle. Their influence in late antiquity and the Middle Ages yielded sophisticated theories of action and motivation, notably in the works of Augustine and Aquinas.1 But the ideas that were dominant in 1945 have their roots in the early modern period, when advances in physics and mathematics reshaped philosophy

Glashülse zur Verhütung der Uebertragung ansteckender Krankheiten beim Gebrauch des Fieberthermometers

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Leo Strauss, el ‘Nuevo Pensamiento’ y "to mend the world": Transcrito, editado y anotado por Kenneth Hart Green

El presente ensayo presenta una transcripción editada y anotada de una carta grabada que fue enviada por Emil L. Fackenheim al editor en 1984. Una breve introducción narra los orígenes de esta carta que constituía, en rigor, una respuesta a la carta enviada por el editor a Fackenheim en Israel. En la grabación, Fackenheim expuso y discutió su relación con Leo Strauss como pensador, a quien significativamente dedicó To Mend the World. La carta le permitió expresar oralmente su punto de vista sobre el papel desempeñado por Strauss en la formación de su propio pensamiento y cuán relevante era para él Strauss como pensador judío moderno. Al mismo tiempo, gracias a esta carta Fackenheim pudo identificar y elaborar lo que para él eran los límites de la posición filosófica “platónica” de Strauss, especialmente con respecto al Holocausto y el mal radical.This article presents an edited and annotated transcription of a letter-ontape that was sent to the editor by Emil L. Fackenheim in 1984. A short introduction recounts the origins of the letter-on-tape, which was a reply to a letter sent by the editor to Fackenheim in Israel. In the recording, Fackenheim articulated and discussed his relation to Leo Strauss as a thinker, to whom he meaningfully dedicated To Mend the World. The letter-on-tape allowed him to voice his views on the role played by Strauss in the formation of his own thought, and on how significant he considered Strauss to be as a modern Jewish thinker. It also permitted Fackenheim to identify and elaborate on what were for him the limits of Strauss’s “Platonic” philosophic position, especially vis-à-vis the Holocaust and radical evil

Quest For Past and Future : Essays in Jewish Theology

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Manfred Fackenheim Family Collection 1933-1975

The collection contains family histories and family trees for the Heiman, Meyer, and Fackenheim families; birth and death certificates; and ID cards and passport for Manfred Fackenheim.Manfred FackenheimThe original German-language inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize