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At the Limits of Political Philosophy - From "Brilliant Errors" to Things of Uncommon Importance (Paperback)
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At the Limits of Political Philosophy - From "Brilliant Errors" to Things of Uncommon Importance (Paperback)
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How do politics and religion point to each other in a way that
respects the integrity of both? Why are reason and revelation not
in absolute opposition to each other? Political philosophy asks
questions such as these that seem to call forth responses that do
not come from politics alone. In seeking the answers, James V.
Schall presents, in a convincing and articulate manner, the
revelational contribution to political philosophy, particularly
that which comes out of the Roman Catholic tradition. In At the
Limits of Political Philosophy he fills the need for a sustained
account of the higher reaches of political philosophy, where
questions arising within the discipline bring it to its own limits.
In the first section of the book, Schall points out what Leo
Strauss called the "brilliant errors" that have arisen in the
history of political philosophy and provides sober responses to
those errors. He insists that neither the reality of evil nor the
possibility of good within the city is completely explained within
political philosophy, and he calls on political philosophy to
acknowledge and respect its own boundaries. Schall maintains that a
noncontradictory unity exists among three aspects of political
philosophy - the problem of evil, the problem of virtue, and the
problem of contemplation of the highest things. Thus in the second
section of his book he moves to a discussion of "imperfect and dire
conditions of human existence": death, evil, suffering, injustice,
hell. He espouses a "political realism" that understands them to be
permanent realities in this world, realities that cannot be
eliminated by human means. The third section treats the death of
Socrates, the death of Christ, and the reality and meaning of
happiness and of virtue. Schall examines the two deaths to show how
ultimate issues arise within particular political instances and how
they lead people to ask those questions about happiness and virtue
that reveal the higher calling of human life. He maintains that
political philosophy cannot be consistent with itself and not think
about these higher realities. Finally, Schall addresses science,
law, and friendship, which raise questions of truth, good, and love
that are not adequately understood if viewed only in their
political contexts. These are ideas that point to the deepest
meaning of human experience; their uncommon importance requires
political philosophy to consider them.
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