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Patriotic elaborations : essays in practical philosophy / Charles Blattberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blattberg, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How might we mend the world? Charles Blattberg suggests a "new patriotism," one that reconciles conflict through a form of dialogue that prioritizes conversation over negotiation and the common good over victory. This patriotism can be global as well as local, left as well as right. Blattberg's is a genuinely original philosophical voice. The essays collected here discuss how to re-conceive the political spectrum, where "deliberative deomocrats" go wrong, why human rights language is tragically counterproductive, how nationalism is not really secular, how many nations should share a single state, a new approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and why Canada might have something to teach about the "war on terror." We also learn about the right way to deny a role to principles in ethics, how to distinguish between the good and the beautiful, the way humor works, the rabbinic nature of modernism, the difference between good, bad, great, and evil, why Plato's dialogues are not really dialogues, and why most philosophers are actually artists.
- Contents:
- Political philosophies and political ideologies
- Patriotic, not deliberative, democracy
- The ironic tragedy of human rights
- Secular nationhood? The importance of language in the life of nations
- Federalism and multinationalism
- Going Rabin one further
- Canada, terror, and the minimal global ethic
- From moderate to extreme holism
- What's wrong with hypergoods
- On the minimal global ethic
- Good, bad, great, evil
- Opponents vs adversaries in Plato's Phaedo
- Loving wisdom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86707-5
- 9786612867071
- 0-7735-7663-0
- OCLC:
- 759157123
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