Longing for Total Dichotomies

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2021.1955466

L. Thiele

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Bernard Yack’s Longing for Total Revolution asserts that a prominent tradition of modern moral and political theory is founded on the binary opposition between nature and culture. Yack rejects this dichotomy in favor of an Aristotelean outlook, and in so doing embraces the opposition between the ancients and the moderns. Neither binary is as oppositional as Yack suggests. There is, however, a more viable distinction to be made between the ancients and the moderns—concerning the role played by teleology—and it better serves the purpose of mapping the historical trajectory of moral and political theorizing. Teleology does not survive modernity, and it is this development that was truly revolutionary.

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渴望完全的二分法

摘要亚克的《渴望彻底革命》认为，现代道德政治理论的一个突出传统是建立在自然与文化的二元对立之上的。亚克反对这种二分法，支持亚里士多德的观点，并在这样做的过程中拥抱了古人和现代人之间的对立。两个二进制都不像亚克所说的那样对立。然而，在古人和现代人之间还有一个更可行的区别——关于目的论所扮演的角色——它更好地服务于绘制道德和政治理论的历史轨迹。目的论无法在现代性中幸存下来，正是这种发展才是真正的革命性。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.30

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12.50%

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