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Jacobins and Utopians - The Political Theory of Fundamental Moral Reform (Paperback)
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Jacobins and Utopians - The Political Theory of Fundamental Moral Reform (Paperback)
Series: Frank M. Covey, Jr., Loyola Lectures in Political Analysis
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Jacobins and Utopians examines the politics of ideal societies and
the means necessary to bring them into existence. George Klosko
reveals how discussions of fundamental moral reform lead inexorably
to questions of political power. Machiavelli classically
articulated the claim that unarmed prophets go to the gallows.
Themes of revolution play an integral role in Klosko's study-as the
figures he explores frequently concerned themselves with the means
of becoming armed. Klosko focuses particularly on what he calls
"educational realism" as a means of channeling political power in
pursuit of moral reform. If people are to become fit for an ideal
society they must be subjected to intensive education, which in
turn requires control of the educational environment and,
consequently, of society as a whole. Klosko identifies Plato as an
educational realist and contends that Plato, contrary to his
reputation as a pure utopian, actually provides a searching
analysis of the role of political power in fundamental moral
reform. In addition to Plato, Jacobins and Utopians canvasses
strategies of moral reform proposed by Plutarch's Lycurgus,
Socrates, Thomas More, Machiavelli, Robespierre, Saint-Just,
Bakunin, Charles Fourier, Marx, and Lenin. Klosko analyzes both the
advantages of Jacobinism as a political strategy and its inherent
flaws.
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